Oklahoma Sooners softball coach Patty Gasso defended his players after some attended an event organized by the women’s sports defender Riley Gaines last week.
Gaines defended equity in female sports since Lia Thomas linked with her to the NCAA championships in 2022. Thomas also became the first transgender athlete to win a female NCAA swimming championship. Since then, current and old female athletes have gathered to keep biological men outside female sports.
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Oklahoma’s soft -chief coach Patty Gasso is represented during the college softball match between Oklahoma Sooners University and Knights UCF at the Love field in Norman, Oklahoma, Friday, April 4, 2025. (Sarah Phipps / The Oklahoman / USA Today Network via Imagn Images)
The Sooners launchers Audrey Lowry and Sam Landry were present for the speech of sheaths during the Turning Point USA event, according to or Daily. Women were far from being the only Sooners athletes at the event.
Gasso told where daily that she had not heard the praise of sheaths towards her and her team and would not comment.
“But the fact that our team is there is their right, whether it wants to go there or not,” she said. “I support them and everything they choose.”
Peyton McQuillan, an athlete from Sooners, defended the message of sheaths in an interview with the student newspaper.
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Riley Gaines speaks in an event of speech of the section of the University of Oklahoma Turning Point USA in Norman, Oklahoma, Wednesday April 2, 2025. (Nathan J. Fish / The Oklahoman / USA Today Network via Imagn Images)
“She just wants to make sure everyone has a good opportunity, and it is clear that she care,” she said. “It is very easy to go back to it.”
Haley Bergstrom, a rower for Oklahoma, argued while keeping organic men out of sports for girls and women. She highlighted the biological differences between men and women. “Biologically, men just have an advantage over women, whatever happens,” she said. “So, we would just like to keep it simple, but there is no problem against trans people in general.”
Gaines received pro-trans demonstrations at school.
“I am really disturbed by the kind of panic that I have seen developing in the past two years – the suggestion that trans people are dangerous, that they harm society, that the leash of trans people participating in daily life is somehow a risky thing that should be avoided,” said the Libraria Cynthia Teague in Oklahoman.
“In particular with sports, there are so few trans athletes to any type of elite, and participating in sports is something that I think that trans adolescents, in particular, should be able to do.”
Kay Holladay holds a protesting sign against a speech event in the University of Oklahoma Turning Point USA for Riley Gaines in Norman, Oklahoma, Wednesday, April 2, 2025. (Nathan J. Fish / The Oklahoman / USA Today Network via Imagn Images)
NCAA has changed its policy to prevent biological men from female sports. However, the defenders of female sport said that the organization had left shortcomings in its policy to keep this door open.
