In 2022, collegiate swimmer Riley Gaines tied for fifth place within the 200m freestyle ultimate on the NCAA Girls’s Championships. The swimmer she tied with was transgender athlete Lia Thomas. Since then, Riley Gaines has turn into an outspoken critic of transgender ladies competing in ladies’s sports activities and has even testified on the difficulty earlier than Congress. On this week’s Q&A, she talks about her swimming profession, her stance on transgender athletes, and the backlash she has acquired after going public together with her views, matters she covers in her new e book “Swimming Towards the Present.”
