Riley Gaines will speak Tuesday morning before the Georgia General Assembly’s Special Committee on the Protection of Women’s Sports, more than two years after she tied transgender swimmer Lia Thomas at the NCAA Championships held at the Georgia Institute of Technology.
Gaines is expected to address Georgia Tech President Angel Cabrera. In prepared remarks obtained by Fox News Digital, Gaines questions why Cabrera did not protect Gaines or any of the other swimmers who participated in the championships.
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Transgender athlete Lia Thomas is shown after winning the women's 500-yard freestyle during the NCAA Division I Women's Swimming and Diving Championships at the McAuley Aquatics Center on the campus of Georgia Tech in Atlanta on March 17, 2022. (Photos by Mike Comer/NCAA via Getty Images)
“Dr. Cabrera, you knew that a completely intact 6'3″ man was coming to compete against me, my teammates, and my competitors at the 2022 NCAA Division I Women's Swimming and Diving National Championships,” Gaines' comments read. “Do you have a daughter? You could have stopped him, you could have at least said, 'not here, not on the campus of Georgia Tech,' but you didn't. You had the opportunity from the beginning to bring a sensible, rational, science-based perspective to the protection of women's sports, but you looked the other way and did nothing. Why didn't you intervene?”
“The scientific evidence of the immense advantages that male performance brings to sport is overwhelming. I don't have to explain it to you or this committee, but you ignored the science to the detriment of women.
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Riley Gaines signs copies of her book outside Fiserv Forum during the Republican National Convention in Milwaukee on July 17, 2024. (Tom Williams/CQ-Roll Call via Getty Images)
“Georgia Tech officials knew that a naked adult male with full male genitalia was being allowed by Georgia Tech to share a locker room with hundreds of female college students who would be naked, unable to hide, unable to protect our privacy. This was intentional and premeditated sexual harassment, and it happened right here in the capital city of the state of Georgia, just blocks from the Georgia Tech campus.
“Because you did nothing, that man walked into the women's locker room at your university and saw me naked. I didn't even know he had access to the women's locker room until I heard a man's voice, turned around, and saw him standing a few feet in front of me, and I was naked. You allowed college women to suffer that trauma on your campus. Why didn't you protect me? Why didn't you protect us?”
Cabrera apparently refused to testify before the committee, and Gaines asked him to redeem himself.
Lia Thomas, left, and Riley Gaines appear after finishing tied for fifth in the 200 freestyle finals at the NCAA Swimming and Diving Championships at the McAuley Aquatics Center in Atlanta on March 18, 2022. (Rich von Biberstein/Icon Sportswire via Getty Images)
“Dr. Cabrera, if you want to redeem the past and protect women in college sports today, you can take a momentous step toward a more just future for women and for humanity,” she added. “Thousands of women across the country and hundreds of girls who dream of swimming for the Georgia Tech Yellow Jackets and, more broadly, who dream of competing in any sport eagerly await your response.”
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Read Riley Gaines' full statement below.
