Former NCAA athlete Riley Gaines and West Virginia Attorney General Patrick Morrisey discuss their fight to protect fairness in women’s sports.

I never would have considered myself a feminist. Yet here I am fighting for the rights of women. There have been two pivotal moments that fortified this advocacy role I’ve undertaken.

The first was on March 18, 2022, when I experienced firsthand the effects of competing against and changing in a locker room with a male at our national championships.

The second defining moment was on April 6, 2023, when I was ambushed and physically attacked on a college campus in California for publicly stating that what happened at the national championships was unfair, unjust and detrimental to women’s rights to privacy and equal opportunity.

Riley Gaines speaks at Pennsylvania State University amid a crowd of supporters and protesters. (Riley Gaines)

This experience was the first time I had ever feared for my life.

SPOTLIGHT ON WOMEN'S SPORTS EXPOSES THIS DARK SECRET OF THE NCAA

It also unveiled a scarier truth, scarier than the punches that were thrown and landed that day. Barricaded in a room for hours, listening to vicious vitriol being spewed outside the room that would become my prison through the night, it hit me – when common sense and truth are exposed, people resort to violence and threats to try to annihilate what is true.

To these people, violence and threats are all that’s........

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