Female Athletes Led By Riley Gaines Sue NCAA Over Transgender Policies - 'About Time Someone Did Something About It'

On Thursday, former NCAA swimmer and women's sports activist Riley Gaines filed a lawsuit alongside 15 other female athletes against the NCAA, the Unversity of Georgia, Georgia Tech University, the University System of Georgia, the University of North Georgia, and the Board of Regents for Georgia's university system.

Gaines was joined on the lawsuit with Reka Gyorgy, Kylee Alons, Kaitlynn Wheeler, Ainsley Erzen, Ellie Eades, Lily Mullens, Suzanna Price, Carter Satterfield, Kate Pearson, Katie Blankenship, Julianna Morrow, and a handful of other athletes that include two swimmers, one track athlete, and a volleyball player.

"It's official! I'm suing the NCAA along with 15 other collegiate athletes who have lost out on titles, records, & roster spots to men posing as women," Gaines wrote on X. "The NCAA continues to explicitly violate the federal civil rights law of Title IX. About time someone did something about it."

The lawsuit accuses the defendants of allowing various Title IX violations against the athletes who were forced to compete against men who were allowed to compete in women's sports. "The NCAA has simultaneously imposed a radical anti-woman agenda on college sports, reinterpreting Title IX to define women as a testosterone level, permitting men to compete on women's teams and destroying female safe spaces in women's locker rooms by authorizing naked men possessing full male genitalia to disrobe in front of non-consenting college women and creating situations in which unwilling female college athletes unwittingly or reluctantly expose their naked or partially clad bodies to males, subjecting women to a loss of their constitutional right to bodily privacy," the lawsuit says.

"NCAA has aligned with the most radical elements of the so-called diversity, equity, and inclusion agenda on college campuses, facilitating the NCAA's effort to shore up its flagging on-campus approval ratings in furtherance of the NCAA's relentless drive to monetize collegiate sport, and diverting attention from the financial exploitation of college athletes by NCAA colleges and universities, all at the expense of female student-athletes," the complaint explains, as reported by Fox News.

The lawsuit largely centers around former University of Pennsylvania student Lia Thomas, who identified as a woman to compete against women in the 2022 NCAA swimming championship against Gaines and other athletes. The lawsuit, brought against the various Georgia universities that hosted the tournament, is the first of its kind and is an attempt to change the rules around Title XI to protect women's sports from transgender athletes having an unfair advantage in competition.

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