Riley Gaines Gets Last Laugh, Journos Freak Out Over Her BIG UPenn Win
There's even an apology to the female athletes who were forced to see a dude's unit in their changeroom
The leftist media are taking the announcement about as well as you might suppose.
We’ll save the dunking on nutty media types until AFTER we bring our readers up to speed on the news.
Riley Gaines never set out to be an activist. She inteded to make her mark in the pool as a competitive athlete. But when a mediocre male athlete gamed the system to compete in her event… and invade her space in the locker room, that changed everything.
The Department of Education found that UPenn had violated Title IX, and issued an announcement that UPenn had entered into a Resolution Agreement to right past wrongs and keep them from happening in the future.
The enumerated bullet points are as follows, with our emphasis added on key phrases:
- UPenn will restore to female athletes all individual UPenn Division I swimming records, titles, or similar recognitions which were misappropriated by male athletes allowed to compete in female categories;
- UPenn will issue a public statement to the University community stating that it will comply with Title IX, specifying that UPenn will not allow males to compete in female athletic programs or occupy Penn Athletics female intimate facilities;
- The statement will specify that UPenn will adopt biology-based definitions for the words ‘male’ and ‘female’ pursuant to Title IX and consistent with President Trump’s Executive Orders “Defending Women from Gender Ideology Extremism” and “Keeping Men Out of Women’s Sports”;
- UPenn will post the statement in a prominent location on its main website and on each of its websites for women’s athletics;
- UPenn will rescind any guidance which violated Title IX, remove or revise any internal and public-facing statements or documents that are inconsistent with Title IX, and notify all staff and women’s athletics of all such rescissions; and
- UPenn will send a personalized letter of apology to each impacted female swimmer.
That last point is especially gratifying. It’s not just a policy pivot, but an acknowledgement of the harms their decisions and policies had on real people.
Gaines, who has been campaigning for this result for years now is — naturally — thrilled.
But not everyone shares her enthusiasm.
CNN has a very different framing of the very same story.
Remember Keith Olberman? Trump broke his brain in the first term of his presidency. He’s still as insanely partisan as ever.
And one more just to show the pattern:
What were they all fighting for? Let’s have one of the swimmers who had to deal with it answer it in her own words: