ICONS’ first public action was a June 26-28 International Women’s Sports Summit in Las Vegas, Nevada, in 2022. The event consisted of three days of speaking engagements by athletes, doctors and lawyers, chiefly about the alleged biological athletic inferiority of women and the unfairness of transgender female competition in sport. Several speakers had their own experiences to share competing against transgender athletes, like Riley Gaines, a former University of Kentucky swimmer who tied for fifth place with transgender swimmer Lia Thomas in 2022 and immediately abandoned her career goals of dentistry to become a professional anti-transgender activist and president of anti-transgender PAC Nine Pac.