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Former University of Kentucky swimmer and women's rights activist, Riley Gaines, has criticised Nike for signing a deal with transgender woman and caricaturist, Dylan Mulvaney, during her appearance on The Clay Travis & Buck Sexton Show on Tuesday.
Gaines said that the move makes a mockery of women and that Nike can forget taking her money. She also spoke out against "faux-feminists" such as Megan Rapinoe, Sue Bird, and Billie Jean King who advocate for biological men to compete in women's sports.
Gaines talked about incident at San Francisco State University
During the interview, Gaines also shared her experience of being hit by a protestor who she described as a "man dressed as a woman" during a speaking engagement at San Francisco State University.
She said that campus police did not attend a scheduled meeting ahead of her appearance and seemed scared to do their jobs out of fear of being labelled as racist.
Protestors were demanding money from her in exchange for her safe release, and Gaines said that the police did nothing, instead negotiating with the Dean of Students about her safe passage home.
Gaines said that incidents like this show why people are scared to speak out against the inclusion of biological men in women's sports.
