Riley Gaines: The NCAA Betrayed Female Athletes to Appease the Mental Health of a Biological Male

“It felt like betrayal," award-winning swimmer Riley Gaines told Alana Mastrangelo in an exclusive interview, about the inclusion of transgender swimmer Lia Thomas in a women's competition. "It felt like belittlement; it felt like we were totally demeaned as women, like we didn’t matter, like our feelings and our safety and our privacy, and our dignity, and our fairness, and our equal opportunities, those didn’t matter.”