Athlete and women’s rights advocate Riley Gaines, alongside the Independent Council on Women’s Sports, filed a lawsuit against the NCAA, the University System of Georgia, and other entities on Thursday.
“It’s official!” Gaines announced on social media. “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.”
She added, “The NCAA continues to explicitly violate the federal civil rights law of Title IX. About time someone did something about it.”
The lawsuit names the NCAA, the University System of Georgia, Georgia Tech University, the University of Georgia, the University of North Georgia, and the Board of Regents of the University System of Georgia, among other defendants.
The plaintiffs named in the lawsuit are Gaines, Reka Gyorgy, Kylee Alons, Kaitlynn Wheeler, Ainsley Erzen, Ellie Eades, Lily Mullens, Suzanna Price, Carter Satterfield, Kate Pearson, Katie Blankenship, Julianna Morrow, and athletes identified as Swimmer A, Swimmer B, Track Athlete A and Volleyball Athlete A and claim that NCAA and the other defendants denied them of Title IX the NCAA’s transgender participation policy.
“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 women claimed in the case.
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Gaines rose to fame when she competed against Lia Thomas, a biological man who identifies as a woman, in the 2022 NCAA Championships.
Following her experience with Thomas, Gaines became an outspoken defender of maintaining the integrity of women’s sports, becoming connected to the news organization OutKick and nonprofit organizations, including the Independent Women’s Forum and the Leadership Institute. She has also written children’s books for the up-and-coming Christian book publisher BRAVE Books. Other female athletes have been inspired by Gaines and joined her in the fight against transgender women in women’s sports.
