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Riley Gaines is still fighting the good fight. And got a major win on Thursday. Her lawsuit against the NCAA is now moving forward, thanks to a ruling from a Georgia federal judge.
The lawsuit surrounds NCAA policies that have allowed biological male athletes to compete in women’s sports, and stems from the 2022 NCAA Women’s Swimming and Diving Championships, in which Lia Thomas won a national title.
At that event, Thomas – a biological male – used the women’s locker rooms, showers and restrooms, after Georgia Tech hosted under an NCAA agreement that gave the association operational control of the venue.
‘[Thomas] was full naked and, of course, full intact inches away from where we, 18-, 19-, 20-year-old girls, were fully undressed,’ Gaines told Fox News in March.
The NCAA, IMO, a political weathervane, revised its guidance once the Trump administration started making it clear that men in women’s sports was a no-go.
As an aside, there is something that I don’t understand about the NCAA. How did it become the ‘governing body of college sports’? In addition to allowing men in women’s sports (and hiding behind the Autopen Administration to do so), they demanded (and got) colleges to changes their sports teams names and mascots.
They are the ultimate in mission creep. From just trying to keep injuries down in college football, they have grown to where they can, and did, force women to undress in front of men and make colleges change their historical sports teams names.
In any case, I hope that Riley Gaines and the other eighteen women take them down a peg or two.
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