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Riley Gaines mocks trans protesters: ‘Men in dresses, I’m sorry, your punches just don’t hurt’

October 14, 2023 | | Print Article

Riley Gaines admitted she “did fear for her life” back in April after she was “ambushed” and physically assaulted by a violent left-wing mob of pro-trans activists at San Francisco State University, but she wasn’t impressed with their “punches.”

“Listening to what they were chanting, what they wanted to do to me, how they were going to injure me and kill me and hurt me and all those different things, I did fear for my life,” she told Outkick’s Charly Arnolt on Friday.

“But truthfully, their punches don’t hurt that bad, which is pretty telling,” she said. “Men in dresses, I’m sorry, your punches just don’t hurt.”

As BizPac Review reported, the outspoken advocate for women’s sports was speaking at the California university about her experience competing against male swimmer Lia Thomas when she was accosted by “a guy in a dress.”

“She told me she was hit multiple times by a guy in a dress. I was shaking. It made me that mad. It makes me sick to feel so helpless about it,” one witness said.

Police escorted Gaines from the scene, and the NCAA champion barricaded herself inside a third-floor room for three hours.

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“She was under police protection and was still hit by a man wearing a dress,” the witness stated incredulously.

“The prisoners are running the asylum at SFSU…I was ambushed and physically hit twice by a man,” Gaines wrote on X at the time. “This is proof that women need sex-protected spaces. Still only further assures me I’m doing something right. When they want you silent, speak louder.”

On Tuesday, Gaines again faced a group of unruly protestors chanting “trans lives matter” when she delivered a speech at Penn State University for “Real Women’s Day.”


(Video: YouTube)

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Two of the demonstrators went up to one of the event’s stalls. One reportedly knocked items off the table, and the other flipped it over.

The destructive duo were detained by police and arrested for disorderly conduct, according to Fox News Digital.

The day before her Penn State appearance, Gaines posted on X a video from the university’s president, Neeli Bendapudi.

In it, Bendapudi stated that she, like so many at the university, is concerned that “the messages spread by some individuals are not only offensive, but deeply hurtful.”

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“I stand in unity with those who condemn such speakers and their rhetoric,” she said.

However, Bendapudi explained, as a public university, “Penn State University is bound by the First Amendment” and can’t simply ban such speakers.

Besides, Bendapudi reasoned, “the same laws or regulations used to silence bigots can be used to silence you.”

Nevertheless, Penn State sent Gaines an email on September 25, to inform her, “We are unable to contract the HUB facilities for your event on October 10th because of competing events and staffing demands,” Campus Reform reported.

“No way President of Penn State makes a whole video explaining why public institutions are legally obligated to let ‘bigots’ apparently like me on campus to speak then proceeds to CANCEL my speech tomorrow for real women’s day (X/X),” Gaines fumed on X. “Have it your way. See ya tomorrow with a soap box and megaphone, Penn State!”

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The university on Tuesday denied canceling Gaines’s speech.

“No event featuring Riley Gaines has ever been canceled at Penn State,” it said in a statement, according to Campus Reform, alleging that Turning Point USA (TPUSA) “did not meet the deadline for submitting the required reservation documents.”

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