Riley Gaines and women's sports activists share honest reactions, emotions to SCOTUS Title IX ruling

Riley Gaines and other individuals involved in and in support of the recent Supreme Court effort to uphold laws to protect women's sports tell the story of the Title IX cases that shook the nation this year.

The U.S. Supreme Court's 6-3 decision to uphold state laws that protect women's sports was a swell moment for Riley Gaines. But she admits the fight has taken a toll.

"Everything that, that I have found myself fighting for over the past few years. I don't want to speak for anyone else. Um, but there is a level of me that's exhausted as well." Gaines told Fox News Digital.

"It's exhausting that in the year 2026, we are still having this conversation, that the highest court in the land is having to rule on, on such insanity, when, I mean, I think even just 10 years ago, we wouldn't have necessarily celebrated this ruling. We would've kind of been like, 'yeah, duh. This is, like, the default.' It's the standard position for anyone to take. Of course we don't want boys in girls' sports. But now we find ourselves celebrating, which is a, a telltale sign of the times, of where we're at culturally and socially. Um, and so there's still more work to do."

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She is already thinking about next steps. And it will take more than six votes to get that task done.

"Number one, Congress to act," Gaines said.

"We need, we, we need Congress to codify President Trump's executive orders... I think we need real enforcement mechanisms as well for those who continue to suffer from the very real diagnosable crippling disease that is TDS...

"What we're going to see make the biggest change, is when people, your everyday person, so think of parents, coaches,