At San Francisco State University, Gaines addressed a TPUSA club.
Riley Gaines, a former University of Kentucky swimmer, told Fox News that she would not be silenced or intimidated by pro-transgender demonstrators at the University of San Francisco, where they had previously forcibly interrupted her lecture.
On Friday’s episode of “Tucker Carlson Tonight,” she stated, “This does not stop me. “This convinces me I’m doing the right thing.” I will not be silenced by this. When they try to silence me, I have to raise my voice even louder.
Gaines, a 12-time All-American swimmer, gained national attention when she protested a transgender swimmer, Lia Thomas (born William Thomas), from the University of Pennsylvania competing against her in the women’s division.
Gaines spoke at a meeting of the Turning Point USA club at the University of San Francisco on Thursday. Disruptive demonstrators disrupted her speech in several ways.The campus police were too cowardly to confront the demonstrators, so they confined gher in another classroom for three hours after the altercation. According to Gaines, in the end, municipal police arrived and escorted her off campus.
She said it was terrifying on Tucker Carlson’s show. The police never mentioned a plot to me. Turning Point USA invited me to speak at the school. My message was respectful and well-considered, and I even struck up a lively exchange with the sit-in’s protestors.
After I finished speaking, the room was suddenly stormed, the lights were turned out, and I was hurried out the door with no one to escort me to safety.
According to Gaines, pro-transgender demonstrators assaulted, punched, and attacked her during a rally. She also said that there were too many hostile protesters inside the premises to allow her to escape. As a result, she spent a considerable amount of time isolated in the same secondary classroom.
Carlson aired a recording of the students shouting at Gaines during the protests. He labeled the incensed bunch as “the most dangerous extremist group in the United States,” citing how their anti-science and anti-reason claims like “trans women are women” are deliberate.
Carlson questioned Gaines on why the police didn’t rescue her from the hands-on demonstrators. He added they were scared to touch the demonstrators for fear of public backlash since “these people are capable of anything.”
She said that the demonstrators were yelling insults at the police officers. She found it “chilling” to witness the police intimidated into inaction by the throng.
According to Carlson, the White House has been supportive of the transgender rights movement in its entirety. Then he inquired as to Gaines’s sense of security in the future.
“I’m concerned about my own safety. She emphasized the need of acting while there were still volunteers. And we know why they’re willing to do it: they don’t have logic, science, common sense, or reason on their side. Yes, I think so, too.
After the incident, Gaines concluded that nobody in power in California protected her. Neither the dean’s office nor the school police. She was detained for hours, but the police in San Francisco performed a “fantastic job,” according to her.
Gaines said that she will seek out her attackers among the demonstrators and press charges.
Those people “will get what they deserve,” she said.
This statement was delivered to Fox News on Friday morning from the University Police Department (UPD) at San Francisco State University.
We are investigating this matter and will continue to do so. No one was arrested as a result of the incident. UPD police had to relocate the event’s speaker to a more secure location after the event ended as a result of the disruption.
It was “organized by SFSU’s Queer and Trans Resource Center,” a TPUSA spokesman told Fox News in reference to the counter-protest to Gaines’ speech.