Riley Gaines and Paula Scanlan on Sharing a Locker Room With Lia Thomas

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Riley Gaines and Paula Scanlan, both former University of Pennsylvania-affiliated swimmers, gave detailed, matching firsthand accounts of sharing a locker room with Lia Thomas, a biological male competing on the women's swim team, describing an environment they say university officials pressured them not to publicly discuss. Gaines told a Senate committee that Thomas, a six-foot-four former men's-team swimmer, exposed himself in the locker room in front of teammates, and that coaches and administrators offered no meaningful response when swimmers raised concerns. Scanlan, breaking her own public silence years later, described how one teammate who initially objected was called into the athletic department and returned with completely reversed views, and said she personally was restricted by university-imposed rules on what she could say to media covering the controversy. Senator Josh Hawley separately confronted NCAA President Charlie Baker directly over the organization's own policies permitting the arrangement, dismantling Baker's claim that federal courts or Title IX required it and revealing that the NCAA itself argues in court that Title IX doesn't apply to its own conduct. Victor Davis Hanson's discussion of Caitlyn Clark's WNBA impact touched on parallel women's-sports tensions without addressing locker-room arrangements specifically.