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Riley Gaines, NCAA athletes to testify in Georgia about competing against, sharing locker room with Lia Thomas

Riley Gaines and several other NCAA athletes will testify in a Georgia state Senate hearing inquiring on females competing against biological men in women's sports.

FIRST ON FOX: Five NCAA All-American Women Athletes, including OutKick.com contributor Riley Gaines, will testify in Georgia about their experience competing against and sharing a locker room with a biological male.

Earlier this month, the Georgia state Senate established a Special Select Committee on Women’s Sports to analyze the issue of biological males competing against female athletes.

Fox News Digital learned that the first topic of the committee's inquiry will focus on the 2022 National Collegiate Athletics Association (NCAA) Division I Women’s Swimming and Diving Championships, where biological male swimmer, Lia Thomas, competed for the University of Pennsylvania women’s swimming team.

The hearings will feature testimony from Riley Gaines, the host of "Gaines for Girls" who competed against and eventually tied with Thomas, who identifies as a woman, in the 200-yard NCAA championships. 

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In addition to competing, Gaines and other women involved in the tournament will reportedly recall being forced to share a locker room with Thomas.

Also testifying will be athletes Reka Gyorgy, Kylee Alons, Grace Countie, and Kaitlynn Wheeler — all members of the Independent Council on Women’s Sports (ICONS) who filed a lawsuit against the NCAA in March alleging the association knowingly violated Title IX in allowing Thomas to compete.

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The women athletes will reportedly "explain how they were harmed by the actions of Georgia Tech University and the NCAA and what must be done to protect women in the future," according to their lead attorney, William Bock III.

"My priority is to ensure that female athletes across Georgia have the right to compete on a fair and level playing field, and I will not waver on this effort," Lt. Governor Burt Jones, R-Ga., said in an announcement of the special committee. "We will not stand idly by while radical politicians, athletic associations, schools and higher education institutions push policies threatening this right."

The first hearing will be held on Tuesday, Aug. 27, at the Georgia State Capitol.

Georgia Tech University and the NCAA did not immediately respond to Fox News Digital's requests for comment.

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