Riley Gaines repeatedly rips AOC for taking pronouns out of X-bio after speaking up for trans athletes

Riley Gaines didn’t let rep. Alexandria Ocasio-Cortez, DN.Y., get off the hook for not using the right pronouns anymore.

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

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

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

“We’re winning and it’s glorious,” Gaines wrote.

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So even later Thursday, Gaines made another effort to mock Ocasio-Cortez in a solo opus.

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

Gaines has 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 tenure. Ocasio-Cortez recently spoke out against Green Party vice presidential candidate Butch Ware for saying he didn’t think trans athletes should play in women’s sports, calling the ticket “predatory.”

“The AOC says not having men compete in women’s sports is predatory. To the AOC, recognizing biological reality is ‘predation.’ You know what actually is 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 transgender rights and protections.

After the Biden-Harris administration in April passed a sweeping reform of Title IX aimed at providing more protections for gender identity in schools and universities, Ocasio-Cortez argued that the reform did not go far enough in favor of transgender people and specifically transgender people . athletes who wish to compete in women’s sports.

“Absolutely no reason for the Biden admin to do this. It’s indefensible and embarrassing. The admin can still go back and they should. It’s a disgrace,” 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 ban on “sex discrimination” in schools covers discrimination based on gender identity, sexual orientation and “pregnancy or related conditions.”

And while the administration insisted that the regulation does not address athletic eligibility, several experts have evidence presented to Fox News Digital in June that it would eventually put more biological males in women’s sports.

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

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Ocasio-Cortez also co-sponsored the Gender Equality Act, which was proposed in 2019 and has 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 rights bill and proposed a solution “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 most consistent with their gender identity (and) use school facilities most consistent with their gender identity.”

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

Gaines shared her harrowing recollection of her experience being forced to share a locker room with Thomas at an Oct. 23 Trump campaign rally.

“I could share the grotesque details of what it was like to be forced to undress, inches away from a 6-foot-4 man who watched us scrape down to nothing as he did the same, exposing his hero intact naked male body,” Gaines said. “There are no words to describe the violation and betrayal, the humiliation we felt.”

Gaines is suing the NCAA along with other female athletes who accuse the governing body of violating their Title IX rights because of its policies on gender identity.

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The lawsuit, filed in U.S. District Court in Atlanta, describes the shock Gaines and other swimmers felt when they learned they would be sharing a locker room with Thomas at the 2022 championships in Atlanta. It documents a number of races they swam with Thomas, including the 200-yard final in which Thomas and Gaines tied for fifth, but Thomas, not Gaines, was presented with 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, DN.Y., spoke out against trans inclusion in an article in the New York Times.

Moulton’s comments have sparked a barrage of backlash against him from Democratic allies, who have deemed his words “transphobic.” Still, Moulton has only doubled down on the comments amid the controversy.

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