Movement Against transgender athletes in sports, women and girls have attracted the support of most Americans, politicians in power, and even the Nis consumer market. Now, one of the leaders of that movement is to call for some great reinforcements on the stars.
Former NCAA swimmer and conservative influencer Riley Gaines He was one of the most active advocates of the movement, dating from her infamous relationship with the transgender swimmer Lia Thomas at the NCAA Championship 2022. In 2024, Gaines became the first ambassador for the XX-XY Athletics activist sports brand.
The brand gained prominent and profitability by becoming the first sportswear company dedicated to promoting activism against transgender involvements in women’s sports. He also created financial incentives for the athletes of women’s faculties across the country to take that issue by signing with Mark.
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Gaines believes that two stars can help start the brand and move to new heights.
“People I think would be critical of this movement are, of course, people like Caitlin Clark, people like Simone Biles, who I think they are definitely stretching, but these are women who could break glass ceilings and break up obstacles, who are role models to young girls across the country,” Gaines told Fox News Digital in an exclusive interview.
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“To emphasize them that they said [trans athletes] Do not belong to women’s sports, the question would be resolved at all levels, such as yesterday if they were willing to do so. ”
Gaines said that “it’s not so far beyond reach” because it sounds because of a shift in culture among Americans to protect women and girls from transgender athletes.
The founder of the XX-XY Jennifer Sey, former US gymnast and Levi’s executive director, addressed Gaines’s Clark and Beslu in a Fox News Digital statement.
“We always encourage more athletes to join the fight. And we would love to work with everyone who is committed to the integrity of the female sport. We are in constant conversations with those who have stood up or think about it,” Sey said. “We believe that it ends when athletes in a large number of women of women’s sports.”
Sey previously Fox Business said Her brand has surpassed a seven -digit profit in the first 10 months in the first 10 months, but still believes that her brand lacks a female athlete as an ambassador of the brand.
“There is no top competitive athlete or a coach who has been advocating to protect the female sport,” Sey said.
“We do not have the current top athletes who have spoken. I think this is an illustration of how far we have to go. It should be normal to get up and say,” I will fight for the protection of the female sport, “and yet they are not, because I think many of them fear that they will be called terrible names.”
Gaines and Sey say the brand “in conversations” with prominent athletes, including Olympics.
“They are ongoing and (there are) talks with many amazing athletes, Olympians and beyond,” Gaines said.
Recent New York Times/Ipsos Survey Found that the vast majority of Americans, including most of the Democrats, do not think that transgender athletes should be allowed to compete in women’s sports.
“Thinking about Transgender athletes – So athletes who were men at birth, but who currently identify themselves as a female – do you think they should or should not be allowed to compete in women’s sports? “, The research asked.
Of the 2,128 people who participated, 79% said that biological males who identified themselves as women should not participate in women’s sports.
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Of the 1,025 people who identified themselves as a democratic or leaning democrat, 67% said that transgender athletes should not be allowed to compete with women.
Nearly 70% of Americans say that biological men should not be allowed to compete in women’s sports, according to a Poll last year.
In June 2024. Survey Led Norc at the University of Chicago They asked the respondents if transgender athletes should participate in sports leagues that correspond to their preferred gender identity instead of their biological sex. In this study, 65% said that it should never or rarely be allowed. When these polls especially asked about adult transgender athletes competing in women’s sports, 69% opposed it.
Caitlin Clark, Riley Gaines and Simone Biles (Imagine)
However, the resistance of opposing transition involvement in women’s sport has encouraged harassment and even crime against athletes involved in movement, including the XX-XY athletics ambassadors.
Former captain for women’s volleyball at San Jose University, Brooke Slusser, who signed with Mark after talking against his school and NCAA in the fall, citing his experience with a transgender teammate Blaire Fleming in the fall, she told Fox News Digital that she had to have had to leave the campus This semester after harassment and threats for its beliefs.
The Slusser’s former SJSU’s assistant coach, Melissa Batie-Smoose, who appeared in the recent advertisement of the XX-XY ATHLETICS “We We You Ncaa”, had Her home shot at In February, she also believed she was targeted for speaking against the alleged Faving favorite.
“It’s crazy what we saw on the other side,” Gaines said. “But there is no throttle he once did.”
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