"MAGA Trump supporter Gaines is a former National Collegiate Athletic Association (NCAA) swimmer and is leading a lawsuit against the NCAA for allowing trans swimmer Lia Thomas to compete. In 2022, Thomas became the first trans woman to win a National Collegiate Athletic Association swimming championship when she came first in the 500-yard freestyle and during the same meet tied for fifth place with Gaines in 200-yard freestyle, who at the time was swimming for the University of Kentucky."
"On Monday (27 October) Gaines shared an image taken of New York Democrat Ocasio-Cortez, known more commonly as AOC, Senator Bernie Sanders and New York mayoral candidate Zohran Mamdani at all rally for the latter's campaign, captioning it: "We're being destroyed from within." In response, AOC replied by calling out Gaines tie in her championship race, writing: "Maybe if you channeled all this anger into swimming faster you wouldn't have come in fifth.""
Riley Gaines is a MAGA Trump supporter, former NCAA swimmer and lead plaintiff in a lawsuit challenging NCAA policies that allowed trans swimmer Lia Thomas to compete. In 2022, Lia Thomas became the first trans woman to win an NCAA swimming championship, taking the 500-yard freestyle and tying with Gaines for fifth in the 200-yard freestyle. Gaines has become a prominent right-wing, anti-trans pundit focused on excluding trans people from sport. Gaines posted a photo of Alexandria Ocasio-Cortez, Bernie Sanders and Zohran Mamdani with the caption "We're being destroyed from within." Alexandria Ocasio-Cortez mocked Gaines' fifth-place finish. Gaines called Ocasio-Cortez a "misogynistic dunce" and later challenged her to a debate on Fox News.
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