University of Kentucky swimmer Riley Gaines — who tied Thomas for fifth place in the 200-yard freestyle NCAA championships — told Fox News that it was “great” that groups like the WSCA were seeking change.
Trans swimmers like Thomas have an unfair advantage in the pool because it “requires things like your power and your stamina and your strength and endurance, all these things that women are just typically disadvantaged at over men,” Gaines told “America’s Newsroom.”
“To pretend otherwise defies logic, reason, science and common sense, quite frankly,” she told the outlet, saying that it was “just night and day difference between male and female” in the pool.
“I think it’s great that we have these small governing bodies willing to come out and make these statements,” she said of the coaches’ group.
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