Members of the Roanoke School girls’s swimming workforce who spoke up towards a transgender athlete making an attempt to affix the workforce final 12 months had been invited on stage at Donald Trump’s rally in Salem, Virginia, Saturday.
The workforce wore shirts that stated “Hold [hot dogs] out of ladies’s sports activities.”
Previous to bringing them up on stage, Trump defined the backstory of when a former member of the lads’s swim workforce on the college tried to affix the ladies’s squad final 12 months.
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Lily Mullens of the Roanoke School girls’s swim workforce prepares to talk at a marketing campaign rally for former President Trump, the Republican presidential nominee, Saturday Nov. 2, 2024, in Salem, Va. (AP Photograph/Steve Helber)
“Final 12 months, the novel left’s gender madness arrived proper right here in Salem when a person was allowed to switch onto the Roanoke School’s girls’s swim workforce,” Trump stated. “I simply met them backstage. They’re nice swimmers. … The courageous members of the swim workforce stood as much as the transgender fanatics, one thing new in our nation.”
After Trump’s introduction, a workforce captain, Lily Mullens, spoke.
“Thanks a lot, President Trump. As feminine athletes particularly, we all know that males have an inherent benefit over girls in sports activities, and as a result of present insurance policies, although, males are competing towards girls of all ages in all sports activities,” Mullens stated.Â
“Joe Biden and Kamala Harris have advocated for and pushed for this anti-woman, sex-based discrimination to proceed throughout this nation. And point-blank, it is unfair.
“So, I wish to thanks, President Trump, for standing with girls and promising to guard the rights of all of us. We’re so fortunate to have a frontrunner like Donald Trump — with frequent sense — who is aware of what a robust lady is and can combat for generations of ladies to return.”
Trump “promise[d] to maintain males out of ladies’s sports activities” on the rally.
Members of the Roanoke School girls’s swim workforce attend a press convention. (OutKick)
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Members of the workforce spoke at a press convention defending their stance simply days after the athlete withdrew a request to affix the workforce final 12 months.
“The scenario we’re seeing unfold at Roanoke School is just about the very same that my teammates and rivals went by means of in regard to Lia Thomas,” Riley Gaines stated on the time. “The distinction is these women have discovered their voice lots sooner and thru unity. This means that the tide is beginning to flip. Braveness is contagious, and there may be energy in numbers. I’m so proud and grateful for these women and their combat to defend frequent sense.”
The looks on the Trump stage occurred simply hours after Blaire Fleming, a transgender member of the San Jose State girls’s volleyball workforce, performed towards the College of New Mexico. 5 faculties have forfeited towards SJSU as a result of Fleming’s presence on the workforce.
Kate Pearson, 19, Lily Mullens, 20, and Bailey Gallagher, 21, the captains of the sophomore, junior and senior squads. (Outkick)
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OutKick has since reported that SJSU suspended an assistant coach who spoke out towards Fleming.
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