Riley Gaines is one of America’s top women athletes. An All-American champion swimmer, she trained at the University of Kentucky with extraordinary determination not just for months, but for years.
Then one day Riley discovered that the National Collegiate Athletics Association (NCAA) was going to allow someone who was born male to compete against women. The race that followed was, in my opinion, a farce.
Riley Gaines, 12x All-American swimmer, speaking at our event in Jackson
However ridiculous you might think the sport administrators were for allowing this to happen, this same issue is now recurring across America. Why?
The insistence by ‘woke’ ideologues that someone born with male XY chromosomes can become a woman might be biologically absurd, but it has real consequences.
There is nothing ‘progressive’ about demanding biological men are able to compete in women’s sports or use women’s changing facilities. What this ‘woke’ agenda does instead is undermine many of the advances made over the past century and a half to achieve equality between men and women.
In a free society, anyone should be free to identify as whatever they want. But the rest of us should also be free not to treat someone with male XY chromosomes as a woman.
It is good to be inclusive. But that also means including those in our society who want to see policy made on the basis of biological fact, rather than biological fiction.
Refusing to regard someone with male XY chromosomes as a woman should not be regarded as a ‘hate crime’, that can subject you to public prosecution (as now happens in Britain), or as an offence that can cost you your livelihood or job (as is now happening in the United States).
Click above to watch our interview with Riley Gaines
Riley Gaines came to Jackson this week to talk about her experiences, and to advocate for action to safeguard women’s rights. You can hear what she had to say by clicking on the image above.
The Mississippi Center for Public Policy is at the forefront of the campaign for a Women’s Bill of Rights in our state. We are delighted with the support that the campaign has from lawmakers, and leading state-wide officials.
What happened to Riley Gaines shows what happens when a small, vocal minority do all the talking and the rest of us stay silent. Society gets bullied into submission. Instead of staying silent, we need to join Riley in speaking out.
