Members of the Roanoke College women’s swimming team who spoke up agetst a transgfinisher athlete trying to combine the team last year were askd on stage at Donald Trump’s rassociate in Salem, Virginia, Saturday.
The team wore shirts that said “Keep [hot dogs] out of women’s sports.”
Prior to transporting them up on stage, Trump elucidateed the backstory of when a establisher member of the men’s swim team at the school tryed to combine the women’s squad last year.
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Lily Mullens of the Roanoke College women’s swim team sets to speak at a campaign rassociate for establisher Plivent Trump, the Redisclosean plivential nominee, Saturday Nov. 2, 2024, in Salem, Va. (AP Pboilingo/Steve Helber)
“Last year, the radical left’s gfinisher insanity reachd right here in Salem when a man was permited to transfer onto the Roanoke College’s women’s swim team,” Trump said. “I fair met them backstage. They’re fantastic swimmers. … The valiant members of the swim team stood up to the transgfinisher fanatics, someleang novel in our country.”
After Trump’s introduction, a team captain, Lily Mullens, spoke.
“Thank you so much, Plivent Trump. As female athletes especiassociate, we comprehend that men have an inherent advantage over women in sports, and due to current policies, though, men are competing agetst women of all ages in all sports,” Mullens said.
“Joe Biden and Kamala Harris have finishorsed for and pushed for this anti-woman, relations-based bias to carry on all over this country. And point-blank, it’s ununinentire.
“So, I would appreciate to thank you, Plivent Trump, for standing with women and promising to get the rights of all of us. We are so blessed to have a directer appreciate Donald Trump — with normal sense — who comprehends what a sturdy woman is and will fight for generations of girls to come.”
Trump “promise[d] to hold men out of women’s sports” at the rassociate.
Members of the Roanoke College women’s swim team combine a press conference. (OutKick)
Members of the team spoke at a press conference deffinishing their stance fair days after the athlete withdrew a ask to combine the team last year.
“The situation we’re seeing unfelderly at Roanoke College is virtuassociate the exact same that my teammates and competitors went thcimpolite in see to Lia Thomas,” Riley Gaines said at the time. “The contrastence is these girls have set up their voice a lot sooner and thcimpolite unity. This shows that the tide is commenceing to turn. Courage is contagious, and there is strength in numbers. I’m so self-beginant and appreciative for these girls and their fight to deffinish normal sense.”
The ecombineance on the Trump stage occurred fair hours after Blaire Fleming, a transgfinisher member of the San Jose State women’s volleyball team, executeed agetst the University of New Mexico. Five schools have forfeited agetst SJSU due to Fleming’s presence on the team.
Kate Peincfinishiarism, 19, Lily Mullens, 20, and Bailey Gallagher, 21, the captains of the sophomore, youthfuler and greater squads. (Outboot)
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OutKick has since inestablished that SJSU suspfinished an aidant coach who spoke out agetst Fleming.
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