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Riley Gaines Criticizes NCAA's Updated Transgender Participation Policy as Unclear

Riley Gaines and other women's sports advocates are concerned about a possible NCAA loophole that could allow trans-identifying male athletes to compete in women's sports.
Gaines stated that 44 states permit altering birth certificates to change a person’s birth sex, raising accountability issues within the NCAA's new policy.
The NCAA spokesperson affirmed that there are no waivers to allow athletes assigned male at birth to compete on women's teams with amended birth certificates.
Gaines criticized the policy as 'as clear as mud,' asserting that it does not adequately protect women athletes despite changes following President Trump’s executive order.

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The Daily Wire

Riley Gaines, Sage Steele Warn About Possible NCAA Loophole For Trans-Identifying Male Athletes

Riley Gaines, Sage Steele, and other women’s sports advocates are warning about a possible NCAA loophole that could allow trans-identifying male athletes to compete in women’s sports. Speaking to Fox News, the former collegiate female swimmer said that the new NCAA policy is “explicitly in conflict” with President Donald Trump’s executive order, which bans biological men from competing in women’s sports. NCAA announced its new policy for “studen…

2 days ago·Nashville, United States

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Focus on the Family

NCAA Ban on Men in Women's Sports 'Toothless,' Say Advocates, Gaines

Flag on the play — the NCAA’s new gender policy won’t keep men out of women’s college sports, advocates like Riley Gaines allege. The Policy The NCAA ostensibly barred men from women’s teams earlier this month after President Trump signed “Keeping Men Out of Women’s Sports,” an executive order disqualifying educational organizations that allow men to join women’s sports teams from receiving federal funding. The NCAA had previously allowed men un…

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The Daily Signal

The NCAA Policy ‘Protecting’ Women’s Sports Is a Head Fake. Don’t Fall for It.

President Donald Trump has issued a flurry of executive orders, but few have received as much media attention as his directive protecting women’s sports. And few subsequent developments were as gratifying as the National Collegiate Athletics Association’s about-face on women’s athletics, which reversed the NCAA’s previously trans-inclusive policy and relegated women’s collegiate athletics to biological women, alone. Or did it? The NCAA—a nonprof…

3 days ago·Washington, United States

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WND

'As clear as mud': Riley Gaines rips NCAA's new trans athlete policy * WorldNetDaily * by Ryan Gaydos, Fox News

Riley Gaines (FOX NEWS) — The NCAA flipped a switch and appeared to alter its gender-participation policy to bar biological males from competing in women’s sports in the wake of President Donald Trump’s executive order. Two weeks after Trump’s No Men in Women’s Sports executive order, long-standing critics of the top collegiate athletic association in the U.S. have pointed out the new policy leaves a lot to be desired. Riley Gaines, Jennifer Sey…

3 days ago·Medford, United States

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Fox News

NCAA's new trans-participation policy is 'as clear as mud,' Riley Gaines says

Riley Gaines talked to Fox News Digital about the potential loopholes in the NCAA's new trans-participation policy in the wake of President Donald Trump's order.

3 days ago·New York, United States

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meaws.com

Why the far-right chose Riley Gaines for the trans sports debate

Riley Gaines has become the darling of the far-right by using transphobia before science to make bank from attacking the community. THIS ARTICLE FIRST APPEARED ON UNCLOSETED MEDIA A NEW INVESTIGATIVE LGBTQIA+ FOCUSSED NEWS PUBLICATION. WORDS HOPE PISONI IMAGES GAGE SKIDMORE At the 2022 NCAA Division I Women’s Swimming and Diving Championships, Riley Gaines’ and Lia Thomas’ teammates cheered from the sidelines as they watched the 200-yard freesty…

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