Riley Gaines sends warning to the Democrats, NCAA in the middle of the battle on trans athletes

Former NCAA and Outkick host swimmer Riley Gaines He delivered a message on Wednesday to the states that challenge the executive order of President Donald Trump to keep transgender athletes out of women’s and girls sports.

Gaines appeared in “The Story with Martha McCallum” of Fox News to praise the United States Attorney General Pam Bondi To urge states that have not complied with the order threatening to retain federal funds.

“The Constitution is very clear that federal laws, such as title IX, have priority over state laws,” Gaines said. “Even with President Trump in the White House, the war on awakening has not yet won.”

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Bondi’s warning came on Tuesday when she warned California, Maine And Minnesota, who has openly challenged Trump’s order, which will lose federal funds if they continue to allow trans athletes in girls’ sports.

Maine has become a battlefield on the subject after a war of words between Governor Janet Mills and Trump on the subject. In addition, a Republican state legislator from Maine, the Libby Laurel Representative, was censored on Tuesday for drawing attention to the state with a position on social networks that called a transgender high school athlete who occupied first place in a girl pole jump competition.

Censures of the Legislature of Maine Rep. Laurel Libby for pointing out the trans athlete who won the competence of girls

Gaines praised Libby and defended the legislator, while condemning Mills on Wednesday.

“(Mills) would prefer to lose more than $ 5 billion in federal funds to send a message that boys deserve and have the right to trample girls in the process,” Gaines said. “Praise and I am very proud and very grateful for the Libby representative. And just looking at this, seeing a female representative to lose their ability to vote and speak on the camera of the camera to defend girls and women.

“No, this did not happen in Afghanistan. This happened in the United States.”

In addition to the Democrats in states such as Maine and California, the NCAA has been criticized for its recent review of its gender eligibility policy to comply with the Trump order. Many critics, including Gaines, have pointed out that the new NCAA policy does not take into account the amended birth certificates, noting that 44 states in the US. UU. Allow genres to be changed in birth certificates.

The XX-Xy Athletics clothing brand, whom Gaines is an ambassador to the brand, took a video advertisement on Wednesday that had multiple university athletes who spoke against the NCAA for their policy, insisting that it was not far enough.

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“We associate with XX-XY ATHLETICS to launch this announcement directly to the message (president of the NCAA) Charlie Baker, directly to the NCAA,” Gaines said. “They published a policy after the executive order of President Trump that states that he was aligned, but the NCAA policy is in direct conflict to the beautifully written executive order of Trump.”

Gaines will travel to Minnesota next week to advocate a state bill to prohibit transgender athletes in girls and women’s sports.

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