Riley Gaines Calls Out Trans Runner Who Won Women's Conference Championship
With the Biden Administration threatening the integrity of Title IX, we need people like OutKick's Riley Gaines to call out the absurdity of biological men being permitted to compete in women's sports.
Fortunately, that's exactly what she's doing and on Saturday she shined a spotlight on another instance of a biological man winning — and setting records — against women.
Gaines shared a photo and video of RIT track and field athlete Sadie Schreiner — who appears to be listed on the school's athletic website under the name Sadie Rose — during the Liberty League Championship meet in Troy, New York.
Everything Riley put in that tweet is accurate.
Here's what it says in the Liberty League's recap of the event:
"RIT sophomore Sadie Rose posted a pair of wins, placing first in the 200-meter and 400-meter dashes. In the 200, she broke a conference record with a time of 24.14 seconds (24.59, 2023). In the 400, she clocked a time of 55.07 seconds en route to her second victory of the championship."
And let's check the official results… yup, the last-place men's runner in the 400-meter finished with a time of 53.24 seconds.
Let's do the math real quick… carry the one… mhm, that's just a shade under two seconds faster than Schreiner's record-setting time.
Now, we are all acutely aware of the biological advantages men have over women in certain sports, and that includes a lot of track and field events.
However, Schreiner isn't breaking any rules per the NCAA's regulations… and that's a problem, especially as those aforementioned changes to Title IX continue to threaten women's sports.
Unfortunately, as Riley noted in her tweet, this is why the Independent Council on Women's Sports (ICONS) is funding a lawsuit against the NCAA to amend the regulations that allow biological men to compete in women's categories.
The NAIA has already done it, as have numerous governing bodies for individual sports.