- Riley Gaines, 23, claimed female swimmers were not ‘forewarned beforehand that we would be sharing a locker room with Lia’
- ‘In that locker room, we turned around and there’s a 6’4″ biological man dropping his pants…we were exposed to male genitalia,’ she said
- Gaines is asking the NCAA for separate locker rooms for transgender athletes
A former University of Kentucky swimmer claims transgender swimmer Lia Thomas ‘dropped her pants’ and exposed ‘male genitalia’ in the women’s locker room at a meet last year.
Riley Gaines, 23, claimed female swimmers were not ‘forewarned beforehand that we would be sharing a locker room with Lia.’
‘We did not give our consent, they did not ask for our consent,’ Gaines told Fox News‘ America Reports. ‘In that locker room, we turned around and there’s a 6’4″ biological man dropping his pants and watching us undress, and we were exposed to male genitalia.’
Thomas, a former University of Pennsylvania swimmer, has begun hormonal treatments, but has not received gender reassignment surgery.
Gaines – who has delayed dental school to continue fighting for biological female athletes – is now asking the National Collegiate Athletic Association (NCAA) to create separate locker rooms for transgender athletes.
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Riley Gaines, 23, claimed female swimmers were not ‘forewarned beforehand that we would be sharing a locker room with Lia’
Lia Thomas pictured with Riley Gaines at the NCAA Swimming & Diving Championships last March