This was the second time this week that campus protests have gotten out of hand at the university. Gaines claimed that demonstrators confronted attendees checking in to the event in the name of transgender rights. They carried pink, blue, and white transgender flags and signs that read, “I’ve seen more impressive Gaines from shake weights” and “gender affirming care saves lives.”
“Happening now at University of Washington in Seattle: protestors chant “God is trans” Now, tell me it’s not a spiritual battle. Demonic beings,” Gaines wrote on X to caption a video of the protests. “Update: the protestors just threw *feces* at the @TPUSA students at check in. Literal human feces.”
While some videos captured campus police officers escorting protesters, the Washington Examiner could not confirm that any protesters were arrested and has contacted UW Police for comment.
Turning Point USA hosted the event with Gaines and a Riley Gaines Center at the Learning Institute ambassador, Olivia Krolczyk, who has previously been the center of protests. In January, Krolczyk attempted to speak at a UW campus event but ultimately canceled it due to a massive protest. This time, she was still the focus of protesters’ ire, as their signs targeted her with phrases such as “Olivia jerks off to Jesus.”
“And they wonder why they lost in Nov ???????,” Gaines wrote.
“Is the University of Washington embarrassed yet?” Krolczyk wrote on X Wednesday. “Allowing their buildings to be taken over, campus to be set of fire, and students to throw bags of feces at people?”
OVER TWO DOZEN PRO-PALESTINIAN PROTESTERS ARRESTED ON UNIVERSITY OF WASHINGTON CAMPUS
Krolczyk’s post was referring to another protest on Monday at the university’s Interdisciplinary Engineering Building. Protesters with Students United for Palestinian Equality and Return, or SUPER, entered the building and barricaded the doors to attempt a sit-in. UW Police entered the IEB at 11 p.m., six hours after the building had closed, to clear out the protesters and arrested roughly 30 of them.
Krolczyk encouraged the protesters, who largely covered their faces during the event, to “find God” and said she was praying for them.
