In 2022, collegiate swimmer Riley Gaines tied for fifth place within the 200m freestyle ultimate on the NCAA Ladies’s Championships. The swimmer she tied with was transgender athlete Lia Thomas. Since then, Riley Gaines has grow to be an outspoken critic of transgender girls competing in girls’s sports activities and has even testified on the problem earlier than Congress. On this week’s Q&A, she talks about her swimming profession, her stance on transgender athletes, and the backlash she has obtained after going public along with her views, matters she covers in her new e-book “Swimming Towards the Present.”