NCAA champion swimmer Riley Gaines began a social media campaign this week to invite Serena and Venus Williams into the debate about transgender women in sports.
Gaines commenced the campaign by tagging the sister tennis stars in a tweet on Monday. The swimmer began the Twitter thread because"the silence is deafening" from other female athletes other than herself."Each day for the next week I'm going to call on well-known female athletes to take a stance on this issue because silence is complicity...we need their voices," Gaines wrote.
Her daily tweets have called out superstar wrestler Ronda Rousey, college basketball champions Angel Reese and Caitlin Clark, and, most recently on Thursday, Olympic track star Allyson Felix. In each tweet, Gaines posed the same question but did not receive a public response.
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