Women’s sports advocate Riley Gaines confirmed that she plans to appeal her lawsuit against the National Collegiate Athletic Association (NCAA) over its policies regarding transgender-identifying athletes to the Supreme Court.
\n\nIn a post on X, Gaines responded to a post from Fox News reporter Jackson Thompson about how U.S. District Judge Tiffany R. Johnson of the Northern District of Georgia dismissed Gaines’ lawsuit against the NCAA.
\n\n“If the NCAA isn’t subject to Title IX, then WHO is?” Gaines asked. “Of course, we will appeal. The goal from the beginning was to get this case before the Supreme Court.”
\n\nBreitbart News’s Warner Todd Huston reported that Johnson, a Biden-appointed judge, argued that “Gaines could not sue the NCAA for violating federal Title IX rules because the NCAA does not directly receive federal funding”:
\n\nU.S. District Judge Tiffany R. Johnson of the Northern District of Georgia dismissed the case on Monday and ruled that Gaines could not sue the NCAA for violating federal Title IX rules because the NCAA does not directly receive federal funding and therefore is not subject to the title’s regulations, the Daily Mail reported.
\n\nThe judge also rejected the argument that the NCAA indirectly benefits from federal funding…
Original source: https://www.breitbart.com/sports/
