Riley Gaines gets emotional reading remarks to lawmakers, says they have chance to send message to women

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Riley Gaines and other former NCAA female athletes addressed Georgia state lawmakers on the Special Committee on Protecting Women’s Sports on Tuesday morning.

Gaines was joined by Reka Gyorgy, Kylee Alons, Grace Countie and Kaitlynn Wheeler at the hearing. All five former swimmers opened up about their experiences at the championships and their emotions while seeing Lia Thomas, a transgender woman who swam at Penn, change in the women’s locker room at the time.

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University of Pennsylvania swimmer Lia Thomas, left, and Kentucky swimmer Riley Gaines react after finishing tied for 5th in the 200 Freestyle finals at the NCAA Swimming and Diving Championships on March 18, 2022 at the McAuley Aquatic Center in Atlanta. (Rich von Biberstein/Icon Sportswire via Getty Images)

As the former Kentucky swim star read her letter addressed to Georgia Tech President Dr. Angel Cabrera, Gaines began to get emotional as she talked about the "sexual harassment" she experienced.

"We did not give our consent to be exploited and exposed to a 6-foot-4 fully naked man," she said. "Because you did nothing, that man walked into our women’s locker room at your university and saw me undress down to full nudity.

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"You allowed college women to be traumatized and violated on your campus in this way. Why didn’t you protect us?"

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Former University of Kentucky swimmer Riley Gaines speaks at an event. (Michael