Former NCAA champion swimmer-turned-women’s sports advocate Riley Gaines said she believes transgender activists resort to violence because they have no other argument.
Gaines is now reflecting on the violent attack against her during a speaking event at San Francisco State University last week.
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“I welcome people with differing views than me,” Gaines said on Hannity. “I answered their questions, but after the speech, I was met with an ambush. People from outside the room, they stormed in. They turned the lights off. They rushed me. They physically assaulted myself and others in the room. A police [officer] helped evacuate me from the situation, to which we went in the hallway where we were only met with more protesters.”
Gaines said she was barricaded in a room for three hours while protesters remained outside.
“They demanded money from me if I wanted to make it home safely, to which the dean of students negotiated with them, and I’m sitting there listening, you know, how are we negotiating my safe passage home? I missed my flight. They were yelling terrible, violent, obscene, awful, vengeful things at both myself and the officers who were protecting me. It was a traumatic experience. I was, of course, prepared for protesters, but there’s no way you can prepare for something like this — an ambush, a violent ambush.”
Gaines said, despite the pushback, she knows her position advocating for sports participation according to a competitor’s biological sex “wins the debate.”
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“We’re backed by science. We’re backed by logic and reason — quite frankly, common sense,” Gaines noted.
“The other side, they don’t have that to persuade their argument,” she added. “That’s why it resulted in the way it did at San Francisco State. They have to resort to violence because they have no other way to persuade you.”
