NCAA champion swimmer Riley Gaines criticized a San Francisco State University faculty member for sending an email to students that portrayed the protest as “peaceful” after she was physically assaulted and forced to retreat to a room for several hours behind a wall of police following a speech she gave defending women in sports.

Gaines alleged that she was subjected to verbal and physical abuse by the pro-transgender demonstrators, which resulted in her being trapped in a classroom for three hours. She further revealed that the protesters had punched, pushed, and struck her before she was barricaded in the classroom, Fox News reported on Monday.

But Jamillah Moore, the vice president for Student Affairs and Enrollment Management at SF State, dispatched an email to the university’s Turning Point USA chapter that did not include an apology to Gaines or make any reference to the incidents that followed her speech on preserving women’s sports.

“Let me begin by saying clearly: the trans community is welcome and belongs at San Francisco State University. Further, our community fiercely believes in unity, connection, care and compassion, and we value different ideas even when they are not our own,” Moore wrote, according to Fox News.

“Thank you to our students who participated peacefully in Thursday evening’s event. It took tremendous bravery to stand in a challenging space. I am proud of the moments where we listened and asked insightful questions. I am also proud of the moments when our students demonstrated the value of free speech and the right to protest peacefully. These issues do not go away, and these values are very much at our core.”

Gaines ripped that description of events.

“I’m sorry did this just say PEACEFUL…. I was assaulted. I was extorted and held for random (sic). The protestors demanded I pay them if I wanted to make it home safely. I missed my flight home because I was barricaded in a classroom,” she tweeted, adding: “We must have different definitions of peaceful.”

I'm sorry did this just say PEACEFUL…. I was assaulted. I was extorted and held for random. The protestors demanded I pay them if I wanted to make it home safely. I missed my flight home because I was barricaded in a classroom…

We must have different definitions of peaceful. https://t.co/izxoCF1IFs

— Riley Gaines (@Riley_Gaines_) April 9, 2023

Gaines also noted that Moore blocked her on Twitter: “I guess it’s easier for her to ignore me than to denounce violence against women. She won’t be able to ignore my lawsuit.”

The former collegiate swimmer added that had the confrontations been peaceful, she would “actually welcome it.” However, the situation escalated beyond what she was able to handle.

“I was grateful to see a diverse crowd in the room during my speech which I expressed multiple times,” Gaines added. “We had great dialogue and listened to each other. But that ambush was the opposite of peaceful.”

During a subsequent appearance on Tucker Carlson’s Fox News program, Gaines stated that she would not be deterred from her objective of safeguarding women’s sports, and that incidents such as the one that occurred at SF State, while “terrifying,” would not divert her from her course.

“This does not deter me. This assures me that I am doing the right thing,” she said Friday on “Tucker Carlson Tonight.” “This will not silence me. When they want me to be silenced, it just means I need to speak louder.”

Of those who attacked her, she said: “They will face repercussions.”