Tomi Lahren warns cancel culture turning violent after Riley Gaines attack: 'Going to get worse'

'Outnumbered' panelists discuss the attacks on conservatives after former University of Kentucky swimmer Riley Gaines was ambushed while trying to speak on trans athletes in women's sports.

OutKick host Tomi Lahren spoke out against attempts by the left to shut down free speech after Riley Gaines was attacked at San Francisco State University Thursday for her position against trans athletes competing in women’s sports. 

Gaines said she was ambushed and physically hit twice by a man after her speech on sex discrimination in women’s sports at a Turning Point USA and Leadership Institute event. 

Gaines has been an outspoken advocate of keeping trans athletes out of women’s sports after she was required to compete against transgender swimmer Lia Thomas. The two eventually tied for a national title.

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Lahren, who was ambushed by angry protesters at the University of New Mexico in September, said this is the left’s new method of shutting down free speech. 

"Free speech is not attacking somebody, hitting somebody, shouting somebody down so that they're unsafe and unable to deliver their message. That's not free speech," Lahren said on "Outnumbered" Friday. 

"What Riley went there to do and what other conservative speakers like myself go to do is actual free speech and it's respectful of that First Amendment right."

Swimmer Riley Gaines is barricaded in a room at San Francisco State University after she says she was assaulted while speaking at a college event put on by a popular conservative organization. (Riley Gaines via Twitter, Rich von Biberstein/Icon Sportswire via Getty Images)

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