Nearly three hours after the demonstrations began, Riley Gaines was still locked in a classroom on the third level of the school.
Former NCAA swimmer Riley Gaines was attacked Thursday night at San Francisco State University after speaking to students at a Turning Point USA and Leadership Institute event.
Riley’s husband, Louis Barker, said that they exchanged brief conversations while she was alone for three hours.
She said a person in a dress had struck her multiple times. To put it mildly, I was a nervous wreck. It infuriated me to no end. When Barker realizes he is powerless, he gets ill. Even with the police there, a male dressed as a woman managed to assault the victim.
Gaines tweeted the link to the video. It shows her being escorted out of the gathering by police as her detractors shout insults at her from every angle.
The inmates at SF State have taken over…Gaines said on Twitter that an unknown individual had beaten him twice after setting him up. This is why there should be designated areas where women may feel secure. Because of this, I know I’m making the proper decision. Raise your voice when speaking is inappropriate.
The swimmer’s remarks were drowned out by the growing volume of pro-trans demonstrators outside the room as Gaines spoke to the children, many of whom did not share her beliefs.
Gaines’s manager, Eli Bremer, wrote a detailed note to Fox News Digital regarding his client’s upcoming performance at San Francisco State University on a Tuesday night. He wrote on how Gaines, a woman who was born a guy, discussed competing against Lia Thomas in the 2017 Women’s NCAA Swimming Championships.
She has spent the past year lecturing at universities to warn her peers about the dangers to Title IX posed by the increasing number of biological men participating in women’s sports. She has been asked her opinion on this issue several times, both politely and furiously, and she fully endorses free and frank discussion and debate.
Instead of talking to Riley calmly, demonstrators at SF State tonight beat him up, shouted at him, and confined him in a room. Incredibly, in 2023 America, biologically male students may assault a female activist for gender equality who simply wants equal rights for everybody.
Riley will continue to express his disapproval of “real guys” engaging in sports with female participants. She just can’t shut up about the far left’s failure to appreciate gender differences.
The Golden Gate Xpress, the school newspaper, posted a video of the protest on social media before Gaines’s Thursday night visit.
Additional footage from the outlet demonstrated how intense the demonstration had become, with police eventually locking Gaines in a separate room.
While she was being moved to safety, videos show demonstrators placing transgender flags up on the school’s walls and shouting things like “go the f—k home” and “trans women are women.”
Images of demonstrators holding up and carrying out of the building a number of TPUSA personnel were also published by the news outlet. Associate Dean of Students Chris Trudell appeared to be trying to restore order.
The TPUSA representative informed Fox News that the rally against Gaines’ speech was “organized by SFSU’s Queer and Trans Resource Center.”
The boisterous demonstrators outside “rushed in when the event was over,” according to the spokeswoman.
Gaines rose to prominence because she publicly opposed transgender athlete Lia Thomas’s eligibility to compete in women’s sports. Several athletes, notably Olympic medalist Nancy Hogshead-Makar, have expressed concern that biological men have an inherent competitive edge over biological females.
The swimmer also serves as a spokesperson for the Independent Women’s Forum. (IWF). The IWF issued a swift social media condemnation of the incident.
Independent Women’s Forum communications director Victoria Coley said that Riley was “violently confronted, ambushed, and physically attacked” when she spoke out against gender bias in women-only sports.Riley has the guts to defend reason, science, and the facts. She has personal experience with the discrimination that women athletes in the United States face.
Fox News sought comment from the San Francisco Police Department and San Francisco State University, but neither responded.