Former NCAA Athlete Riley Gaines on the Erosion of Women’s Rights and the Need for a New Wave of Feminism

Riley Gaines, a former NCAA athlete and nationally known advocate for women’s sports, safety, and privacy, speaks out about the erosion of women’s rights and the need for a new wave of feminism. She recounts her personal experience competing against a male in the NCAA national championships and being ambushed and physically attacked for publicly stating that it was unfair. Gaines argues that we are in the midst of a fourth wave of feminism that is focused on equal outcomes for all humans rather than individual freedoms, opportunities, and the ending of sex-based discrimination. She believes that real feminism is not a concept that should contort itself to fit the politics of the day and that men and women are inherently and beautifully different. She calls for a new wave of feminism where we fight to take back womanhood, the language we use, and our sex-based rights.

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