House Speaker Mike Johnson has invited Riley Gaines, a former collegiate swimmer who placed fifth behind a transgender athlete, and Dr. Wayne Lewis Jr., president of a Christian university opposing transgender athletes, to attend President Biden’s State of the Union address.
Gaines has advocated for girls’ and women’s sports after being displaced by a biological male at the NCAA championships.
Speaker Johnson praised Gaines as a role model defending women’s athletics despite current attacks.
“Riley Gaines is a role model for America’s women and girls, inspiring them to unlock their potential and do the right thing, even when it isn’t popular,” Speaker Johnson said. “Right now, the White House is attacking athletes like Riley, undermining the integrity of women’s athletics, and pushing for men to take scholarships and roster spots from women.”
“I’m grateful to host Riley at the State of the Union and am proud to join her in her efforts to save women’s sports,” Johnson added.
While the Biden administration proposes redefining Title IX to include gender identity, putting women’s sports funding at risk, Johnson and his guests will fight to maintain the original intent protecting sex-based policies.
“He has been steadfast in his support of Title IX and the importance of maintaining its original intent,” Gaines said. “As the Biden Administration pursues their illegal administrative rewrite of Title IX, I’m confident Speaker Johnson will fight for women and common sense as he’s already done.”
This month, Lewis fiercely spoke out against men participating in women’s sports. “Biological males’ participation in women’s athletics is wrong,” Johnson wrote. “Most Americans and most of the world know it to be wrong.”
Their invitation signals opposition to undermining women’s athletics through inclusion of biological males.
“A fringe agenda under the guise of making school and collegiate athletics more inclusive for transgender people has grown to the place of now unfairly displacing gifted and hardworking female athletes, obliterating the historic achievements and records of female athletes of the past, and threatening to dismantle the opportunities and protections for girls and women in sport trailblazing leaders fought so hard to create and protect,” Lewis said.
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