Riley Gaines slams men trying to 'silence' ex-college athlete at California library event

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Former NCAA swimmer Riley Gaines was among those who slammed a California library after a former college soccer player was shouted down during an event while speaking about transgender participation in women’s sports.

Sophia Lorey wrote on X, the company formerly known as Twitter, that she was invited to the Mary L. Stephens Davis Branch Library in Davis, California, to speak about being a college athlete.

Lorey, also the outreach coordinator for California Family Council, wrote on X she was "shocked" at what took place. 

A video shared on social media showed Lorey getting interrupted multiple times as she talked about "biological girls" and "biological men."

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Riley Gaines spoke out about an incident at the Mary L. Stephens Library in Davis, Calif. (Getty Images)

"I stated, ‘Current 10 year old girls cannot live out the same dream [I had] as long as men are allowed to compete in womens sports. So now no matter how hard girls work…’ And then I was cut off and told by the librarian I would be removed, so then I continued talking saying ‘biological girls’ and ‘biological men’ to finish sharing my story," Lorey wrote. "The librarian then told me to leave and if I won’t leave he will shut the entire meeting down.

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"The librarian then again told me to leave so I directly said why am I being asked to leave and he told me ‘Because you are misgendering, you were talking about men in women sports.’"

The video showed several men and women interrupting Lorey.

Gaines, who is the host of