Oklahoma Souler Softball coach Patty Gasso defended the players last week after attending an event hosted by women’s sports advocate Riley Gaines.
Gaines has since defended the fairness of women’s sports. Leah Thomas I was tied up with her at the 2022 NCAA Championship. Thomas also became the first trans athlete to win the NCAA Women’s Swimming Championships. Since then, current and former female athletes have come together to keep biological men out of female sports.
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Oklahoma softball coach Patty Gasso is portrayed during a college softball game between the University of Oklahoma Sners and the UCF Knights in Lovesfield, Norman, Oklahoma. (Sarah Phipps / The Oklahoman / USA Today Network via Imagn Images)
According to OU Daily, Sooners pitchers Audrey Lowry and Sam Landry were attending Gaines’ speech at the Turning Point USA event. The woman was far from the only athlete at the event.
Gasso said every day That she did not listen to Gaines’ praises and commented on her team.
“But the fact that our team is there is their right to do with whether they want to go,” she said. “I support them and whatever they choose.”
Sooners Track athlete Peyton McQuillan defended Gaines’ message in an interview with Student Newspaper.
Riley Gaines will speak at the University of Oklahoma Turning Point USA Chapter Speaking Event held in Norman, Oklahoma on Wednesday, April 2, 2025. (Nathan J. Fish / The Oklahoman / USA Today Network via Imagn Images)
“She just wants to make sure everyone has a fair opportunity and it’s clear that she cares,” she said. “It’s very easy to relate to that.”
Oklahoma rowmaker Haley Bergstrom supported protecting biological men from girls and women’s sports. She pointed out the biological differences between men and women. “Biologically, men have an advantage over women,” she said. “So we want to keep it simple, but it’s not a problem for trans people in general.”
Gaines was protested by parents at school.
“I’m really in the way of the panic that has developed over the past few years. The suggestion that trans people are dangerous and hurt society, and the participation of trans people in their daily lives is something that should be avoided in some way,” librarian Cynthia Teague said. Oklahoman.
“In sports, there are so few trans athletes of all kinds of elite levels, so participating in sports is something that trans teens should be especially capable of.”
Kay Holladay holds a sign to protest at the University of Oklahoma Turning Point USA Chapter Speaking Event in Riley Gaines in Norman, Oklahoma. (Nathan J. Fish / The Oklahoman / USA Today Network via Imagn Images)
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NCAA We have changed our policy to protect biological men from female sports. But women’s sports advocates say the organization has left a loophole in its policies to keep the door open.
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