It's been nearly two years since Riley Gaines surfaced from seemingly out of nowhere to embody the national resistance to the transgender sports agenda, and still the question remains: Why her?
A collegiate transgender swimmer is being compared to Lia Thomas after winning races and smashing a program record, prompting renewed calls for the NCAA to take action to ensure competitive fairness in female athletics.
Riley Gaines is a 12-time All-American swimmer from a top NCAA Division I athletic program, but former ESPN host Keith Olbermann says she lost because she "sucked at swimming."
Riley Gaines, a college swim champion and women's advocate, shares what it was like to wait for someone to stand up for her and other women athletes when Lia Thomas, a man who identifies as a woman, began competing on her women's swim team.
Few Americans may have heard of Canadian powerlifter Anne Andres, but the record-smashing athlete is quickly emerging as the north-of-the-border version of Lia Thomas.