Former University of Kentucky swimmer Riley Gaines said that a video she posted to TikTok in which she did not say a single word has been removed from the site for violating the app’s community guidelines.
“This video just got removed from my tik tok for violating community guidelines but I literally didn’t say a word,” Gaines noted in a post on X, while retweeting a post that includes the relevant video.
In the video, Gaines eats cereal while a video plays in which an individual announces their pronouns and continues by listing off a number of self-descriptors.
“Hi there. I’m Cody, pronouns e/em/eir/eirs or xe/xem/xyr/xyrs or really any neopronouns that aren’t ze/hir/hirs,” the individual begins, “I am a white transmasculine, femme, nonbinary, temporarily mostly able-bodied, neuro-divergent, obsessive compulsive, chronically ill, culturally Jewish, Unitarian Universalist, nonmonogamous, demilo romantic, greydemibisexual, survivor of acute and complex trauma, millennial, and cat parent in mental health recovery.”
Gaines simply captioned the video “poor cat” in the version of the clip posted to Twitter.
Gaines made headlines several years ago after beginning to openly speak out against biological men participating in women’s sports, due in no small part to her own experience competing against transgender swimmer Lia Thomas.
Thomas, a biological man, tied for fifth place with Gaines in the NCAA Women’s Championships 200 freestyle final last year, according to Swimming World magazine.
Thomas previously made waves swimming in women’s competitions, breaking multiple records set by women and winning first place in the 500 free at the NCAA Championships in 2022.
“Lia Thomas is not a brave, courageous woman who EARNED a national title. He is an arrogant, cheat who STOLE a national title from a hardworking, deserving woman. The @ncaa is responsible,” Gaines has noted.
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