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Riley Gaines repeatedly rips AOC for taking pronouns from X biography after advocating for trans athletes

Riley Gaines dropped Rep. Alexandria Ocasio-Cortez, DN.Y., won’t go free because she stopped using the correct pronouns.

The congresswoman was the subject of a trending conversation on social media on Thursday when X-users discovered that she no longer includes her “she/her” pronouns in her bio. Gaines, a former NCAA swimmer and OutKick contributor, took issue with Ocasio-Cortez on X with multiple posts.

“They will pretend they never embraced (or even celebrated) the madness. Don’t forget who the docile, virtue-signalling sheep were,” Gaines wrote in response to a post claiming Ocasio-Cortez had lifted the pronouns from her biography . before May this year.

Gaines later responded to a video of Ocasio-Cortez previously apologizing for not including pronouns in her bio alongside a photo showing they were no longer there.

“We are winning and it is glorious,” Gaines wrote.

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Representative Alexandria Ocasio-Cortez

Rep. Alexandria Ocasio-Cortez, D-N.Y., speaks onstage during the first day of the Democratic National Convention at the United Center in Chicago on Aug. 19. (Justin Sullivan/Getty Images)

Even later on Thursday, Gaines made another attempt to mock Ocasio-Cortez in a solo post.

“How will we know what to call AOC now that her pronouns are gone from her bio?!?!?!,” Gaines wrote.

Gaines previously criticized Ocasio-Cortez for her stance on trans athletes in women’s sports. The Democratic congresswoman has been a frequent advocate for transgender rights and trans inclusion in women’s sports during her time in office. Ocasio-Cortez recently spoke out against Green Party vice presidential candidate Butch Ware, saying he didn’t believe trans athletes should play in women’s sports. He called the ticket “predatory.”

“AOC says it’s predatory behavior to not want men to participate in women’s sports. For AOC, recognizing biological reality is ‘predatory’. You know what’s actually predatory? Sexualizing children and normalizing pedophilia,” Gaines wrote on X while posting a Fox News Digital article about Ocasio-Cortez’s comments.

Ocasio-Cortez has taken a partisan stance in its support for the rights and protections of transgender people.

After the Biden-Harris administration passed a sweeping overhaul of Title IX in April that aimed to provide greater protections for gender identity in schools and colleges, Ocasio-Cortez argued that the reform did not go far enough in favor of transgender people and, in particular, transgender people. athletes who want to participate in women’s sports.

“Absolutely no reason for the Biden administrator to do this. It is indefensible and shameful. The admin can still reverse this, and they should. It is a shame,” Ocasio-Cortez wrote in response to a report that the change would allow schools to exclude transgender athletes from women’s and girls’ sports.

The administration issued a sweeping rule clarifying that Title IX’s prohibition on “sex” discrimination in schools includes discrimination based on gender identity, sexual orientation, and “pregnancy or related circumstances.”

And while the government insisted the regulation does not address eligibility for athletics, several experts said evidence presented told Fox News Digital in June that it would ultimately bring more biological males into women’s sports.

Still, that wasn’t good enough for Ocasio-Cortez.

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Riley Gaines speaks at an event

Former competitive swimmer Riley Gaines speaks during a campaign rally for former President Trump at the Desert Diamond Arena in Glendale, Arizona, on August 23. (Rebecca Noble/Getty Images)

Ocasio-Cortez also co-sponsored the Equality Act, which was proposed in 2019 and has undergone revisions that would “force public schools to allow biologically male athletes who identify as transgender on girls’ sports teams.”

In March 2023, Democrats, including Ocasio-Cortez, advocated for a transgender bill. a resolution “Recognizing that it is the duty of the Federal Government to develop and implement a Transgender Bill of Rights.”

The resolution specifically called for a federal law to ensure that biological males “can participate in team sports and in programs that best reflect their gender identity (and) use school facilities that best reflect their gender identity.”

Meanwhile, Gaines has passionately fought against trans inclusion in women’s sports as a former college swimmer who infamously teamed up with trans athlete Lia Thomas at the 2022 NCAA Championships.

Gaines shared her harrowing memory of her experience being forced to share a dressing room with Thomas at a Trump campaign rally on October 23.

“I could share the grotesque details of what it was like to be forced to undress, inches away from a 6 foot tall man who watched us strip down to nothing as he did the same, leaving his fully intact naked male body exposed,” Gaines said. “There are no words to describe the violation, betrayal and humiliation we felt.”

Gaines, along with other female athletes, are leading a lawsuit against the NCAA, accusing the governing body of violating their Title IX rights because of its gender identity policies.

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Riley Gaines

Riley Gaines is sworn in during a hearing of the House Oversight Subcommittee on Health Care and Financial Services on Capitol Hill in Washington, DC, on December 5, 2023. (Drew Angerer/Getty Images)

The lawsuit, filed in U.S. District Court in Atlanta, details the shock Gaines and other swimmers felt when they learned they would have to share a locker room with Thomas at the 2022 championships in Atlanta. It documents a number of races they swam with Thomas, including the 200-meter final in which Thomas and Gaines tied for fifth place, but Thomas, not Gaines, was awarded the fifth-place trophy.

Meanwhile, many other Democrats have backed away from their support for transgender inclusion in women’s sports before and after the election.

Massachusetts Rep. Seth MoultonD-Mass., and Rep. Tom Suozzi, D-Y., spoke out against trans inclusion in a New York Times article.

Moulton’s comments have sparked a wave of backlash against him from Democratic allies who view his words as “transphobic.” Yet Moulton has only doubled down on comments during the controversy.

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