Riley Gaines is the Director of The Riley Gaines Center at the Leadership Institute and she’ll be speaking at the University of Notre Dame at 5:30 p.m. on Friday, Feb. 16.

Riley is a 12-time All-American swimmer and competed against transgender swimmer Lea Thomas. Her speaking tour aims to encourage college students to speak up for their fundamental right to free speech, much as she has done after being stripped of opportunity to fairly compete in sports.

Her website is: www.rileygainescenter.org. To attend the address, you just need to sign up at www.rileygainescenter.org/events. The address is free to attend and open to the public.

Listen to Riley Gaines talk about her message she will deliver at The University of Notre Dame:

More from the Riley Gaines Center at the Leadership Institute:

Women have been stripped of opportunities to fairly compete in sports; denied scholarships; put in physical danger; and exposed to humiliation in locker rooms. Worse, people who oppose this movement have been silenced, threatened, and physically assaulted — these injustices will only accelerate if we don’t speak up now and Gaines’ talk focuses on encouraging the next generation to fight for our fundamental rights and for fairness.  

In Riley’s words: “No girl or woman should have to endure the utter disregard and humiliation that my fellow swimmers and I did.” Through her speaking tour, Riley aims to empower students, athletes, community leaders, parents, and other allies to advocate for women and girls, defend women’s identity.

In August 2023, Gaines launched the Riley Gaines Center at the Leadership Institute to fight the push to erase women and destroy women’s sports. This is an important initiative and resource at a critical time in our country and Gaines’ speaking tour is one aspect of the Center’s work.

The Riley Gaines Center at the Leadership Institute has been created to advocate for girls, women, and parents at a time when we are under attack: stripped of opportunities to fairly compete in sports; denied access to sex-based scholarships and academic opportunities; put in physical danger on athletic courts and fields; and exposed to bodily harm and humiliation in locker rooms and private areas.

More information about the Riley Gaines Center at the Leadership Institute is below.

The Riley Gaines Center will unapologetically:

• Protect the Female Identity: Women’s spaces, privacy, safety, and identity are under attack.
• Affirm the basic biological truth that men are men and women are women.
• Defend the Freedom of Speech: Free speech is our God-given, constitutional right as Americans.

The Riley Gaines Center will fight for women and girls by:

• Providing support, training, and resources for those who want to defend women’s identity and uphold vital truths.
• Building a coalition of women, men, student-athletes, parents, and those who have been harmed by radical transgender ideology, to join Riley in speaking out.
• Identifying, recruiting, training, mentoring, and empowering students, athletes, and parents across the country to become campus, community, and national leaders.

Here is the website: www.rileygainescenter.org.