"Everything that, that I have found myself fighting for over the past few years.I don't want to speak for anyone else.
Um, but there is a level of me that's exhausted as well." Gaines told Fox News Digital."It's exhausting that in the year 2026, we are still having this conversation, that the highest court in the land is having to rule on, on such insanity, when, I mean, I think even just 10 years ago, we wouldn't have necessarily celebrated this ruling.We would've kind of been like, 'yeah, duh.
This is, like, the default.' It's the standard position for anyone to take.Of course we don't want boys in girls' sports.
But now we find ourselves celebrating, which is a, a telltale sign of the times, of where we're at culturally and socially.Um, and so there's still more work to do."RILEY GAINES: SUPREME COURT HANDS WOMEN AN IMPORTANT WIN, BUT THE FIGHT ISN’T OVERShe is already thinking about next steps.
And it will take more than six votes to get that task done."Number one, Congress to act," Gaines said."We need, we, we need Congress to codify President Trump's executive orders...I think we need real enforcement mechanisms as well for those who continue to suffer from the very real diagnosable crippling disease that is TDS..."What we're going to see make the biggest change, is when people, your everyday person, so think of parents, coaches, etc., when they're bold enough to defend their daughters or defend their athletes or defend themselves, um, that's when you see real change."Gaines led a rally on the steps of the Supreme Court during oral arguments for the two cases the justices ruled on this week.
Right next to her crowd of women's sports advocates was a mosh of pro-transgender activists wearing costumes and shouting obscenities.US conservative political activist Riley Gaines speaks outside the US Supreme Court as justices hear arguments in challenges to state bans on transgender athletes in women's sports on January 13, 2026, in Washington, DC.(Oliver Contr...