.@Riley_Gaines_: The NCAA forced "female swimmers to share a locker room with [Lia] Thomas, a 6'4", 22 year old male equipped with and exposing male genitalia… We were forced to take off our swimsuit in front of a man." pic.twitter.com/kQEg9sI3uz
— Steve Guest (@SteveGuest) June 21, 2023
“You’re told as a woman to shut up. Don’t say anything. What’s that like?” the Missouri Senator asked during his allotted time.
“They will call you everything under the sun, whether it’s transphobic, homophobic, racist, white supremacist, domestic terrorist,” she responded. “They will throw them all at you in hopes to deter you!”
During Hawley’s round of questioning, Gaines added that the team “only became aware we’d be undressing next to a man when we had to see a man undressing while we were simultaneously undressing.”
“Any man could have walked into our locker room… and we weren’t forewarned about it,” the student athlete maintained.
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