NCAA president finally answers questions about Riley Gaines' campaign vs transgenders in women's sports

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Former NCAA women’s swimmer Riley Gaines was not at the House sub-committee hearing on NIL Thursday in Washington D.C., but her argument against transgender women competing in women’s sports was.

And NCAA president Charlie Baker couldn’t hide from the questions by Republican Congresswoman Debbie Lesko of Arizona about Gaines’ continuing campaign and her two unanswered letters to Baker.

"We write on behalf of a coalition of women’s organizations to demand that the NCAA meet with female athletes adversely affected by its discriminatory practice of allowing male athletes on women teams," Gaines wrote in a letter to Baker and the NCAA dated Jan. 11, 2024, as read by Lesko.

Gaines host the Gaines For Girls podcast for OutKick.

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Lia Thomas looks on from the podium after finishing fifth in the 200 Yard Freestyle during the 2022 NCAA Division I Women's Swimming & Diving Championship at the McAuley Aquatic Center on the campus of the Georgia Institute of Technology on March 18, 2022 in Atlanta, Georgia. (Mike Comer/NCAA Photos via Getty Images)

Lesko held up the letter as she addressed Baker, who became NCAA president on March 1, 2023. He previously served as Republican governor of Massachusetts from 2015 through January 5, 2023.

"Without single-sex competition, there can be no equal athletic opportunity," Lesko read from Gaines’ letter. "The NCAA knows this, yet it continues to propagate a policy that allows male athletes on women's teams. We renew our demands to the governing body to repeal all policies and rules that allow male athletes to take roster spots on women’s teams and