Lia Thomas Nominated for “Woman of the Year”, Riley Gaines Fires Back

CLAY: One big story that popped over the weekend that continues to define the craziness of the modern Democrat Party, you’ll remember Lia Thomas, Penn’s transgender swimmer who won the 500, the University of Pennsylvania nominated her for Woman of the Year. This is a top award given out by the NCAA for the top women’s athletes.

And we are going to have — I give credit to her for speaking out — one of the women who swam directly against Lia Thomas, Riley Gaines from the University of Kentucky. And, Buck, I don’t know if you saw her tweet, but she responded to me when I put out this story about Lia Thomas.

And most women’s athletes have been afraid to say something — even the parents have been afraid to say what they really think. And I just want to hit you with these tweets that she sent. And I read them, and I was like — thank you. Thank you that someone is finally actually speaking out and saying what virtually anyone with a functioning brain believes, which is a biological man shouldn’t get the opportunity to compete against women.

Here’s what Riley Gaines said, Buck. There’s a picture up of Lia Thomas standing next to Riley Gaines after their race, and she said as follows. “Being the real girl in that photo and also the University of Kentucky’s nominee for NCAA Woman of the Year, this is yet another slap in the face to women. First, a female national title, which was won by Lia Thomas and now nominated for the pinnacle award in collegiate athletics, the NCAA has made this award worthless.”

She continued. “This award combines athletic performance with academic service and character. What character has Thomas shown other than sheer selfishness and entitlement? The disrespect and disregard for the other female athletes in Thomas’ interviews is eye opening. ”

Wow. Well said, Riley Gaines, University of Kentucky should be proud because that’s also well written and well delivered. She is well educated, and she is not afraid, and she’s gonna be on with us now, Buck, Wednesday of this week to discuss this story.

BUCK: Popping cannonballs of truth into the deep end of the pool there.

CLAY: How great is that?

BUCK: That was phenomenal. So true. But there is a broader point here as well, and it is that the libs, the media, same thing; so passive-aggressive on this issue all the time. They’ll say, what’s the big deal? Just use someone’s preferred promouns,what’s the big deal? Just be accepting. It is not that many people. Why do you care so much?

They try to exhaust the general public on these topics. And then it’s, oh, look at this, we’re giving the Woman of the Year award to a man. You sit here and say, hold on a second. I thought you said this wasn’t a big — Woman of the Year? What a slap in the face to women, right? But this is what they always do: “Why is it such a big deal? Why can’t you be nicer? Why can’t you be more accommodating?” And they exhaust you with that.

And then the moment that, you know, you think, all right. Well, you know, maybe I guess — they go, oh, Woman of the Year is actually a man. This is the way they play the game all the time, particularly on this issue because the general public is not with them on this.

CLAY: Yeah. And to Riley Gaines’ point, this is the unmatched ward for excellent delivered by the NBA. And all of these women have worked their entire lives to be the nominees of their respective schools; so I think the University position deserved a great deal of criticism here.

But the fact that 99% of women’s athletes agree with Riley Gaines but are afraid to say what they really think ’cause they’re worried about whether they’ll get a job at an investment bank, Buck, they’re worried about whether they’ll get into a grad school and so as a result they have this stultifying culture of silence.