Gaines for Girls with Riley Gaines - January 16, 2026


Behind the Scenes： Supreme Court to the White House ｜ The Riley Gaines Show


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Today's episode is a behind-the-scenes look at what it was like to be on the Supreme Court steps on the day that the Court of Justices ruled on the landmark Title IX case from the very beginning of the week.

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00:00:30.000 Hey guys, if you're watching on YouTube.com right now,
00:00:37.100 which I hope you are,
00:00:38.020 you can clearly tell that I am not in my home studio.
00:00:41.860 I am actually filming today's episode from the DCA airport.
00:00:46.200 It has been a whirlwind of a week.
00:00:49.160 I cannot wait to take you guys kind of behind the scenes in today's episode.
00:00:53.220 We started the week in Washington, DC on the Supreme court steps.
00:00:57.180 Then we went to Florida.
00:00:58.260 Then we went to New York.
00:00:59.560 Then we came back to Washington, DC, all with a three month old,
00:01:03.880 or I guess really three and a half month old baby.
00:01:06.340 We didn't really plan for the trip to New York or the second trip to Washington, DC.
00:01:10.760 So we definitely did not bring enough diapers or wipes.
00:01:13.920 So you can imagine me and Louie pushing the stroller down Times Square, having to go into a CVS to buy diapers and wipes for Margo.
00:01:23.200 But it's New York.
00:01:24.780 So the diapers are behind like an anti-theft cage because who doesn't want to steal diapers, right?
00:01:30.740 We have to go get the employee.
00:01:31.880 She comes back with the key.
00:01:32.860 She opens it.
00:01:33.400 We get diapers.
00:01:34.200 It's just been crazy.
00:01:35.880 Welcome to mom Donnie's New York City, where he promises free stuff, yet keeps things behind locked cages.
00:01:42.020 And the second trip back to DC was for an amazing and totally sporadic opportunity where I got to sit in the new media press seat during Caroline's press briefing.
00:01:51.160 But before I tell you about what the White House was like, let's go back to Monday, the Supreme Court.
00:01:56.440 I hope you guys listen to Wednesday's episode.
00:01:59.240 If you haven't, I encourage you to go back and listen to it.
00:02:01.760 I provide a little bit of context and clarity about what the Supreme Court was ultimately going to be hearing and soon rolling on.
00:02:08.840 I did that with a beautiful young girl by the name of Adalia Cross.
00:02:12.320 When she was in middle school, she competed against one of the boys who was one of the plaintiffs in the West Virginia case.
00:02:20.320 It was actually the state of West Virginia versus BPJ.
00:02:23.100 Not only did Adalia lose out on opportunities, and does she speak to that on the episode of how defeating that feels, the feelings of betrayal that she had.
00:02:31.900 But she also alleges that she was sexually harassed by this same boy in the locker room, an intimate area of undressing as a middle school age girl.
00:02:43.920 The things that he allegedly said to her were so profane and heinous and vulgar.
00:02:47.800 However, I'm not even going to repeat it on this because I don't want YouTube to take this episode down.
00:02:52.240 So I encourage you to go back and listen to Wednesday's episode for a little bit of context on what the Supreme Court was ruling on, or I guess will soon rule on.
00:03:00.640 Here's what I will say.
00:03:02.260 There aren't ruling on if states must protect women, if they must abide by federal law, that federal law being Title IX.
00:03:11.700 It's not that at all.
00:03:13.360 They're ruling on, soon to rule on, if states even can have protections for women. 0.83
00:03:20.720 Insane.
00:03:21.340 In the year 2026, as women, we're fighting for, I mean, equality.
00:03:27.080 That's what we're fighting for.
00:03:28.100 That's what we were demanding on the Supreme Court steps.
00:03:31.180 So, absolutely wild we have to be there, but I explained this on Wednesday's episode as well.
00:03:36.400 What the oral arguments really felt like to me is like the pinnacle of everything that we had previously been fighting for, or I'll speak for myself, everything that I've been fighting for for, you know, the past nearly four years now.
00:03:50.020 I have been long awaiting the day where the Supreme Court would hear a Title IX case in this regard.
00:03:55.840 So, excitement, joyous, but there's a level of frustration that we even have to be there.
00:04:01.880 So, to describe to you guys what it was like on the ground, there were two groups, right?
00:04:06.000 You have the pro-woman group, or you can call it the pro-reality, pro-truth, pro-fairness, pro-safety, pro-sex-based rights, pro-science, what happened to follow the science.
00:04:16.720 That the pro-woman group was here, and then you have the pro-trans group, the pro-men and women's sports group, the pro-child butchery group.
00:04:27.280 You get it, right?
00:04:28.460 There wasn't even really 50 feet within our two rallies.
00:04:33.240 This surprised me.
00:04:34.360 Honestly, I thought there would be more security measures in place to prevent us from intermingling, I guess, with one another, but there weren't.
00:04:42.160 And I'm happy to report, at least from what I saw and what I've seen online following this, I don't think there was any crazy altercation, which, of course, is a good thing.
00:04:52.060 Another thing you saw visually being there on the Supreme Court steps, there were so many more people, in terms of sheer volume, like density, population, that were there for the pro-woman rally, as opposed to the pro-trans rally.
00:05:05.580 Which, again, this was kind of a shocking revelation to me.
00:05:09.840 We haven't seen this really thus far.
00:05:12.660 Yes, certainly, we know how the public feels about these issues, and we know that the public overwhelmingly supports the idea that men should not be in women's sports.
00:05:21.840 But when you're at events like this, you'd be hard-pressed to have a larger turnout than the pro-trans side.
00:05:28.100 And I think, you know, there's an array of reasons as to why that is.
00:05:31.140 Number one, the pro-trans side, oftentimes, and I have proof of this, I've seen it, especially in different states at state legislative bodies, they're oftentimes paid to be there and to be protesting.
00:05:42.080 You have to also consider this was a workday.
00:05:45.260 Most people are working, which, typically, we have problems on our side getting people out in the middle of a workday because they have jobs and they have families and they have other things going on.
00:05:55.640 So, I was thrilled to see so many people who cared so deeply and so passionately to be there on the ground supporting women.
00:06:04.680 And again, what is true, what is right, what is fair, what is just.
00:06:07.380 You wouldn't have seen that even two years ago.
00:06:10.100 So, I think it represents more than, you know, what we saw visually.
00:06:13.800 It represents, I believe, a huge shift in the cultural tide.
00:06:19.140 And I think President Trump largely is to thank for that.
00:06:21.360 That his boldness and his willingness to go after those who seek to destroy our protections, it provides a lot of cover to people to say the once deemed, even honestly still deemed controversial thing that men can't become women and vice versa.
00:06:38.300 That there are two sexes, that you can't change your sex, that each sex is deserving of equal opportunity, of privacy, and of safety.
00:06:45.340 Still speaking about some of the very stark differences that I saw between the two groups, on the pro woman side, we opened our rally in prayer.
00:06:53.900 Actually, it was Elizabeth Eddy, who is a professional soccer player.
00:06:57.640 She played for the NWSL.
00:07:00.640 She's played right alongside people like Megan Rapinoe, which we're going to talk about Megan Rapinoe in a minute. 0.99
00:07:05.380 But she opened the rally in a really beautiful prayer, acknowledging, yes, of course, that our side is rooted in biological truth, objective truth, but more importantly, rooted in biblical truth.
00:07:19.200 And it goes back to the very first book.
00:07:20.900 He created them, male and female, intentionally and uniquely in his perfect image.
00:07:25.320 We saw American flags waving on our side.
00:07:27.780 We saw moms with their young daughters, like, you know, eight-year-old girls who are there who probably got to skip school to be there.
00:07:35.520 And they're holding signs and they're smiling ear to ear because I think even they understood the stakes of what was being heard inside the courtroom, you know, just 20 yards behind us.
00:07:43.200 I would describe our side very much as happy warriors.
00:07:46.560 And one other thing I want to mention, it wasn't a specific demographic of person who was there.
00:07:51.320 You saw men, you saw women, you saw old, young, white, black.
00:07:55.500 It was actually super cool.
00:07:56.780 I met and got to spend some time talking to a group of what they called themselves as lifelong liberal atheist lesbians. 0.99
00:08:06.120 I hope I got that right.
00:08:07.060 You know, we might not have a whole lot in common on our political views, but even still, it was amazing to be able to link arms, put all the other things aside, link arms, stand there together and advocate for what's true.
00:08:19.480 I've got a sign that I saw on the rally on screen right now.
00:08:21.920 It says Democrats for an informed approach to gender, which I love this.
00:08:26.720 And I think it highlights how this really is a unifying issue, despite how people like AOC or really elected representation in general, and certainly mainstream media, legacy media portrays this issue.
00:08:38.900 It's a unifying one.
00:08:40.140 Now compare this to the other side that did not start their rally and prayer.
00:08:44.060 They were waving a flag that says the satanic circle. 1.00
00:08:48.260 I saw sick, demented, evil people supporting a sick, demented, evil ideology. 0.99
00:08:53.740 I saw many people who I believe could have been arrested for public indecency with their outfit choices. 1.00
00:09:03.160 It was like a borderline strip club slash drag show. 0.97
00:09:06.660 My husband actually went over into their rally, came back, and he said he felt like he needed to be baptized afterwards.
00:09:13.300 And on their faces, I didn't really see smiles.
00:09:16.680 I saw anger.
00:09:18.300 I saw vitriol.
00:09:19.340 I saw yelling and screeching.
00:09:21.140 There were several signs that I saw. 0.90
00:09:23.500 I believe one said, change your heart or die.
00:09:27.020 These are the people who claim to be tolerant and loving and accepting and embracing of diversity and welcoming.
00:09:33.320 Here's another sign. 0.97
00:09:34.240 I put it on screen here that says GOP, and it says genital obsessed pervs.
00:09:40.780 So I guess you got to give them creativity points there. 0.69
00:09:43.020 I mentioned we had Elizabeth Eddy speaking on our side. 0.77
00:09:45.280 I think she played professional soccer for like 11 years.
00:09:47.680 We had Sharon Davies, who competed in her first Olympic Games at 13 or 14 years old.
00:09:53.720 She's an Olympic silver medalist.
00:09:55.360 Tons of high-level female athletes.
00:09:57.500 But I still am scratching my head.
00:09:59.340 Like, how do we not have more high-level, I think especially professional athletes,
00:10:05.560 who are willing to say the women's sports category should be protected?
00:10:09.660 Really following the rally, we have seen this go the other way.
00:10:12.640 We've got a clip of Megan Rapinoe.
00:10:14.000 Let's play it here.
00:10:14.420 When you're young, you believe that you can do anything.
00:10:17.940 And then the world tries to set limits for you.
00:10:19.860 Tell you what's allowed.
00:10:21.040 What's normal.
00:10:21.740 Who you're supposed to be.
00:10:23.100 But on the field, the track, the court, here, you get to be exactly who you are.
00:10:28.400 Because at our core, we're still the kids who just want to play.
00:10:31.720 The go-big game changers.
00:10:33.640 The living, breathing fabric of this country.
00:10:36.540 Supporting trans youth isn't just about sports.
00:10:38.800 It's about freedom.
00:10:40.280 On and off the field.
00:10:41.580 It's more than a game.
00:10:42.860 So this is an ad for the ACLU.
00:10:45.820 I have a lot of things to say here.
00:10:47.280 First and foremost, they talk about, you know, just wanting to play.
00:10:50.820 Let me clear up a misconception.
00:10:52.500 Because I see this in the headlines all the time.
00:10:54.780 About states like Tennessee or Florida or Texas wanting to ban trans athletes.
00:11:00.720 No one is banning trans athletes.
00:11:05.180 Nobody.
00:11:05.780 Nobody wants that.
00:11:07.320 I don't want that.
00:11:08.080 Hear me when I say I am the biggest proponent of people playing sports.
00:11:13.160 Everyone playing sports, regardless of any identity factor, regardless of your sexual orientation, regardless of your gender identity.
00:11:19.940 I think you should be playing sports because there are so many great benefits to playing sports.
00:11:24.840 It's what taught me how to be a leader.
00:11:27.180 It's what taught me how to set goals and work to achieve those goals.
00:11:30.980 It's taught me how to understand how some things matter more than just yourself.
00:11:34.580 Like these are skill sets that I developed because of sports that I will utilize, that I utilize, of course, in my time in athletics.
00:11:41.360 But far beyond that, I'm utilizing them in my career now.
00:11:44.840 No one should be denied of that.
00:11:46.620 Okay?
00:11:46.940 So to say that we are advocating for a ban on trans athletes is totally false.
00:11:52.680 Just compete in the category that aligns with your sex. 0.72
00:11:56.720 So both of these boys and these two landmark cases that were being heard before the Supreme Court can and should compete with the boys.
00:12:04.360 And you've got Megan Rapinoe.
00:12:05.580 This is a woman who has benefited immensely from women's sports.
00:12:09.820 No one would know who Megan Rapinoe is, whether that's a good thing or bad thing, if it weren't for the women's sports category. 1.00
00:12:16.340 How can she as a woman now advocate for other women to not have the same opportunities that she had?
00:12:22.680 Right?
00:12:22.940 Like I think we call this pulling up the ladder behind you.
00:12:25.900 That's what Megan Rapinoe is doing here. 1.00
00:12:28.360 And it's funny to me that she has waited until her career has been over to now take this chance.
00:12:33.940 And the U.S. Women's National Soccer Team, which Megan Rapinoe was very much a part of, lost 5-2 to a 15-and-under boys high school soccer team.
00:12:43.120 So if that right there doesn't tell you that there are biological differences, 15-year-old boys beat the best women in not even just the country, in the world.
00:12:54.160 I really never heard Megan Rapinoe speak about that.
00:12:56.780 I remain very optimistic that we will see a favorable ruling from the Supreme Court.
00:13:01.340 After the Supreme Court, the next day I was in New York where I sat on the couch with the girls and Bill Hemmer of Outnumbered, which was so much fun.
00:13:09.020 But there was this clip that surprisingly went viral and has become now controversial.
00:13:15.860 Let's play it here.
00:13:16.460 On the Supreme Court steps.
00:13:18.120 And honestly, like, just as you said, like, honest, there's a level of emotion to it, especially when you have to consider the fact you have a three-month-old baby that you have to wrap in a bulletproof blanket because of the threats that were present there yesterday.
00:13:33.300 That is who we're fighting for.
00:13:35.100 And all these Democrats and their insane policies and the things they say and the things they support, I think 130 congressional Democrats signed a brief supporting the boys in the case.
00:13:43.860 They think they're giving the middle finger to President Trump.
00:13:47.940 That's not who they're giving the middle finger to.
00:13:50.080 They are giving the middle finger to my little baby girl, again, who you have to wrap in like a little bulletproof vest.
00:13:56.800 So it's true.
00:13:58.060 Margo was at the Supreme Court with me.
00:14:00.120 My husband was there as well.
00:14:01.520 So was a team of security detail, obviously entrusted to keep me and my family safe.
00:14:07.980 I can understand the criticism, truthfully, like very self-aware person.
00:14:11.140 I'm able to read it, digest it, understand it.
00:14:14.580 And I do understand where people are coming from of, you know, why would you even potentially put your child in harm's way?
00:14:21.420 I've seen people online commenting, you know, why didn't you just leave the baby at home or why didn't you bring a babysitter?
00:14:26.880 Well, it's not as easy as that when you're breastfeeding, right?
00:14:30.120 And I wasn't going home for many, many days.
00:14:32.380 People said, well, why didn't you bring your mom with you? 0.98
00:14:35.240 My mom has a job too.
00:14:37.800 So like logistically, it just didn't make sense.
00:14:40.100 I guess one thing that could have been done was my husband stay back in the hotel room with her.
00:14:44.180 But again, breastfeeding, like logistically, it really didn't make much sense.
00:14:47.960 And so upon talking to security detail, we were able to assess the threats that I'd received, most of them through social media, kind of weed out what seemed credible, what didn't seem credible.
00:14:59.260 And we ultimately ruled that it would be okay if Margo came.
00:15:03.160 And as far as the bulletproof blanket goes, it was like a bulletproof little shield thing.
00:15:08.020 And we kind of just wrapped it around her and my husband wore a carrier, which was really cute.
00:15:12.580 He was kind of playing like Mr. Mom with the baby in the carrier and the bulletproof shield blanket plate thing kind of wrapped around her.
00:15:21.100 I would have never, my mind would have never even gone to do something like this prior to September 10th, where we watched Charlie Kirk was assassinated in front of thousands where it will live on the internet forever.
00:15:37.060 Uh, how do we have such short memories that we forgot this just happened by someone who was, I guess, enthralled by the same ideology that I'm fighting against.
00:15:49.480 So that's where the precautionary measure came from on our end.
00:15:53.680 And again, um, we consulted security details on this matter.
00:15:58.580 And if you follow me for any amount of time on Instagram, on X, on this, this show on Tik TOK, then you know that Margo goes everywhere with me.
00:16:08.160 I mean, it's, it's really as simple as that.
00:16:10.380 Like she goes everywhere that I go, uh, whether it's the Supreme court, whether it's to go get my nails done or my hair done, like Margo is there with me.
00:16:19.220 Um, I think the best way to describe our approach to parenting, especially in these first few months, and I know things may change, especially as she gets older and more mobile.
00:16:27.920 But for now she's portable and she's adaptable and she's resilient.
00:16:32.660 And so why would I not bring her everywhere that I go?
00:16:37.000 So I guess my final thoughts here on the criticism that I received, look, I do understand where people are coming from.
00:16:42.780 It's the same thing I heard actually, when I swam Alcatraz at seven months pregnant, the amount of people who commented on my social media saying, you know, like, you're just using that, your pregnancy as an attempt to get clicks and likes, and you're putting your baby in harm's way.
00:16:56.160 Oh my gosh, I was pregnant, not disabled, first of all.
00:17:00.880 Um, but nonetheless, I'm able to read the criticism, understand maybe people's intentions behind it.
00:17:06.640 But at the end of the day, the problem should not be myself and my husband bringing our baby with us to a very public place, right?
00:17:15.120 Like the Supreme, I mean, it's exclusive to a degree, but a public place, the steps of the Supreme Court, that should not be the problem.
00:17:21.900 The problem should be the people who would love nothing more than to harm myself, my child, my husband, the things that, that we love, the things that we care about very deeply.
00:17:32.300 The people who make these threats because they think it's okay to make these threats.
00:17:37.040 That's the problem in this scenario, not me bringing my baby alongside with me to a very public event.
00:17:42.540 That is not a riot, by the way.
00:17:44.500 Neither myself nor my husband would ever intentionally put our daughter in harm's way, right?
00:17:50.720 Um, but we're not going to lock her in a tower like Rapunzel. 0.99
00:17:55.640 Um, if she could be there with us and it means we have to take extra security or precautionary measures to make sure that she's there and she's safe, then by all means, we're going to do that.
00:18:05.780 That's exactly what we did.
00:18:07.020 One thing about me is I am very much like a poster and ghoster, meaning I'll post online and then I won't get on my phone for, you know, several hours.
00:18:15.420 Um, so it wasn't until the next day I was scrolling on X and I saw where Candace Owens weighed into the criticism. 1.00
00:18:22.700 She says, I'm so happy you said the quiet part out loud.
00:18:25.360 It's giving my three-year-old daughter burst into tears when I had to explain to her why society isn't ready to let a woman like Hillary Clinton be president vibes. 1.00
00:18:32.580 It's manipulative and gross to use your kids as a prop.
00:18:37.580 Candace Owens calling anyone manipulative is so rich, but I'm not even going to go there.
00:18:45.720 I'm going to address the point where she says I'm using my child as a prop.
00:18:49.840 Uh, that is certainly not my intention behind bringing my daughter with me as a breastfeeding mom, bringing my three-month-old with me in public places.
00:18:59.680 That is, of course, never my intention.
00:19:02.520 She went to New York with me.
00:19:03.520 She went to Florida with me.
00:19:04.340 She went back to DC with me again because we go places together as a family.
00:19:09.220 She's not a prop, but she is my why.
00:19:13.740 And I'm not ashamed of that.
00:19:15.340 I will never be ashamed of that.
00:19:17.280 Like, I feel amidst pride being her mom.
00:19:20.460 There's nothing more rewarding or fulfilling or purposeful than being a mom and being her mom.
00:19:28.120 So you can say you wouldn't have done that with your children.
00:19:30.460 That's fine.
00:19:30.880 We can have different parenting styles.
00:19:33.220 But to say it's manipulative and gross to bring my three-month-old baby in a public place where both of her parents are, I think that's really, really rich.
00:19:46.280 And she says, you know, I'm happy you're saying the quiet part out loud.
00:19:49.520 I don't even really understand, like, what she's getting at there.
00:19:52.960 I wasn't saying anything in that clip that I showed you guys that I haven't been saying for, I mean, for years now.
00:20:00.960 And especially since I've had her.
00:20:02.640 So there was no quiet part that was being said out loud.
00:20:07.200 Maybe she wasn't listening, which is fine.
00:20:09.520 I'm not sitting here saying Candace has to follow every single thing that I do or say.
00:20:12.980 Of course not.
00:20:13.720 I would never expect that.
00:20:15.240 But what I said there is nothing different than what I have been saying for years.
00:20:20.840 She is my why.
00:20:21.700 I will continue to fight for her and she'll continue to be alongside me so long as, again, assessing the situation with security, we feel as if it's a relatively safe bet.
00:20:34.540 Of course, nothing is for certain.
00:20:36.420 I mean, Charlie Kirk probably didn't assume that he was going to lose his life that day, despite what Candace may say.
00:20:43.400 I think she's now come out and said that he's like a time traveler.
00:20:45.980 I can't really keep up with that.
00:20:47.340 So there's never a for certain, right?
00:20:49.440 Only God knows what is going to happen.
00:20:51.320 But we felt safe with her being there while still taking precautionary measures because the other side is unhinged and crazy.
00:20:58.880 Now let's get into oral arguments. 0.75
00:21:00.340 How amazing is it that you have a team of lawyers there with the ACLU who couldn't seem to define sex?
00:21:07.600 Watch this.
00:21:08.420 Is it not necessary for there to be for equal protection purposes, if that is challenged under the equal protection clause?
00:21:15.800 An understanding of what it means to be a boy or a girl or a man or a woman?
00:21:22.080 Yes, Your Honor.
00:21:22.700 And what is that definition for equal protection purposes?
00:21:26.000 What does it mean to be a boy or a girl or a man or a woman?
00:21:30.580 Sorry, I misunderstood your question.
00:21:31.900 I think that the underlying enactment, whatever it was, the policy, the law, we'd have to have an understanding of how the state or the government was understanding that term to figure out whether or not someone was excluded.
00:21:42.920 We do not have a definition for the court and we don't take issue with the, we're not disputing the definition here.
00:21:48.820 What we're saying is that the way it applies in practice is to exclude birth sex males categorically from women's teams and that there's a subset of those birth sex males where it doesn't make sense to do so according to the state's own interest.
00:22:00.880 Well, how can you, how can a court determine whether there's discrimination on the basis of sex without knowing what sex means for equal protection purposes?
00:22:11.660 I think here we just know that we basically know that the, that they've identified pursuant to their own statute.
00:22:19.440 They were there to literally talk about sex-based rights and why they're necessary or I guess on their behalf, why they don't believe that they're necessary.
00:22:29.840 And they don't have a definition for simple words like man, woman, girl, boy, uh, male, female defining sex itself.
00:22:40.640 This is the Supreme court, the highest court, and they don't have a definition.
00:22:45.980 It was in 2022 where that clip went viral of justice Ketanji Brown Jackson, Senator Blackburn, asking her, what is a woman?
00:22:53.260 She didn't have an answer.
00:22:54.260 I cannot understand how in the year 2026, all of the best and brightest minds of the democratic party, how have they not gotten together in one room?
00:23:04.560 I can picture it now, right?
00:23:05.820 Especially the women, right? 1.00
00:23:07.520 AOC, Jasmine Crockett, Kamala Harris, Nancy Pelosi, all in one room.
00:23:12.180 How have they not, even if it's a totally bogus answer, how have they not come up with a answer for the question of what is a woman?
00:23:21.300 You have to imagine that it was inevitably going to be asked to these lawyers and they still didn't have an answer.
00:23:28.820 These are embarrassingly unserious people.
00:23:32.100 And one more point I want to make about the oral arguments. 0.73
00:23:34.400 The fact that the term cisgender is being used in the Supreme court is incredibly infuriating.
00:23:44.100 I'm so sick of these words, sick of things like gender identity and cisgender and your sex being assigned at birth.
00:23:51.560 It's not a cubicle you sit at in an office.
00:23:54.140 You're not assigned a sex like you are assigned a cubicle.
00:23:58.320 Your sex can be recorded at birth.
00:24:01.060 Really, it's recorded before that.
00:24:02.600 It can be observed at birth, but it is not assigned at birth.
00:24:07.160 I hate having to listen to these justices say biological women, biological females, as if there's an unbiological alternative to being a woman. 0.70
00:24:17.440 That was one of my main takeaways after listening.
00:24:19.640 I am so desperate for clear sex-based language that everyone can understand.
00:24:26.680 I can't even tell you how many times my grandma will send me an article and have questions for me, you know, saying this says trans woman, but it uses she pronouns.
00:24:35.000 Is it a man who identifies as a woman or a woman who identifies as a man?
00:24:38.100 And honestly, half the time I'm confused.
00:24:40.420 We're desperate for clear sex-based language.
00:24:43.700 So if you're listening to this, this is my plea.
00:24:46.900 Do not mince your words.
00:24:48.400 It's not necessary.
00:24:49.460 Actually, it's confusing and it's harmful to women when you do that. 0.93
00:24:52.820 There is no such thing as a trans girl, trans boy. 1.00
00:24:57.240 It's just boy.
00:24:58.540 It's just girl.
00:25:00.380 Use sex-based pronouns.
00:25:02.480 People are desperate for it.
00:25:04.900 And if all that before the Supreme Court wasn't enough, how about Senator Hawley questioning a doctor, a certified OBGYN, a doctor of women's health, of pregnant women, who was asked 11 times if men can get pregnant.
00:25:19.460 Watch this.
00:25:20.120 Can men get pregnant? 1.00
00:25:21.080 Again, the reason I paused there is I'm not really sure what the goal of the question is.
00:25:26.900 The goal is just to establish a biological reality.
00:25:29.520 You just said a moment ago that science and evidence should control, not politics.
00:25:34.420 So let's just test that proposition.
00:25:36.580 Can men get pregnant? 1.00
00:25:38.120 I take care of people with many identities, but I take care of many women that can get pregnant. 0.57
00:25:44.260 I do take care of people that don't identify as women. 0.75
00:25:47.840 Can men get pregnant? 1.00
00:25:49.120 Again, as I'm saying, all right, cut the tape.
00:25:53.380 You get it now.
00:25:54.020 Like that went on for five minutes.
00:25:56.400 He spent his entire time questioning this woman again, asked her 11 times, can men get pregnant, which she could not answer.
00:26:04.220 How terrifying that a doctor, someone who went to medical school, someone who is entrusted with your health care cannot answer the question if a man can get pregnant. 0.99
00:26:17.400 I wonder what she would say to the question of, do women need prostate exams? 1.00
00:26:23.560 She claims it's being politicized, but the only one politicizing Senator Hawley's very straightforward, simple question was her.
00:26:33.220 If you cannot emphatically say, which it doesn't matter if you're a doctor, it doesn't matter if you're the leader of the Democratic Party.
00:26:39.120 It doesn't matter if you're a fifth grader.
00:26:41.200 If you cannot emphatically say that men cannot become pregnant with no hesitation, with full confidence, then I will not believe a single word that comes out of your mouth on any topic because you have zero credibility.
00:26:54.280 We are talking about the foundation of humanity, man and woman.
00:27:01.560 It's how every single person on this planet is here from man and woman.
00:27:04.520 And we're being asked to deny that.
00:27:06.940 That is a really terrifying thought.
00:27:09.580 So I encourage all of you to ask your caregiver, ask your health care provider.
00:27:14.240 If you're a pregnant woman, ask your OBGYN if they believe that men can get pregnant at your next exam, health care visit.
00:27:21.900 And if they can't give you a biologically truthful answer, then I would encourage you to walk out and find a new physician or OBGYN.
00:27:33.140 Now to speak to you guys about the new media seat opportunity that I had.
00:27:37.540 It was one of the coolest experiences I think I've ever had.
00:27:40.700 And we've now at this point done a lot of cool things, met a lot of cool people, been amazing places.
00:27:46.140 But this one, it really takes the cake.
00:27:49.680 You go into the White House and you see the press briefing room online, maybe if you're watching on Fox News.
00:27:56.580 And it looks pretty packed.
00:27:58.280 Oh my gosh.
00:27:59.060 We walked in.
00:28:00.440 All the press was already sat in the room, which they were packed in like sardines.
00:28:06.120 So many people are anxious, chomping at the bit to be able to listen to Caroline and kind of get that first little clip out there.
00:28:13.620 So the room was packed with cameras, reporters, people with their notepads and pins, laptops open, left-leaning, right-leaning, everything in between.
00:28:22.500 And we walk in, me, Louie, baby Margo, because again, we do things together.
00:28:27.280 And you could just see, especially the faces of reporters from left-leaning outlets, kind of like their jaws drop a little bit.
00:28:36.000 Like, oh, what is she doing here, which is like often a question I'm asking myself, like, oh my gosh, what am I doing here?
00:28:41.880 And we've talked about it before where it has been a priority of mine and my husband's, really mostly my husband's actually, to make sure Margo, her face isn't shown on social media because we're not using her as a prop.
00:28:54.560 But when we walked in, I don't think either of us were fully prepared for that many cameras to be in the room.
00:29:01.140 And so it was immediately kind of like turning her head to the back of the cameras so no one could see her face, which I actually think we did a pretty good job of that.
00:29:08.620 I was able to spend a few minutes with Caroline before walking out there.
00:29:11.480 And I asked her, you know, is there anything you want me to ask?
00:29:14.320 And she said, look, you can throw anything my way. 0.98
00:29:17.320 Like, we're prepared, we're ready, nothing is off limits, which I thought that was really cool.
00:29:21.280 And it speaks to how confident she is in her role, of course, but also how much she believes her relationship with the president as well.
00:29:28.640 And so I thought that was pretty amazing.
00:29:30.400 And so I was able to ask her specifically about SCOTUS and what would be the action that the administration would take against the states who don't uphold federal law following what I believe will be a favorable ruling later in the year.
00:29:44.480 She reassured me personally, she reassured every reporter in the room and all the people watching online that the president would get involved in any means necessary to any state or institution not following federal law, even if that means bringing down the full hammer of justice alongside the DOJ.
00:30:01.660 So that was pretty cool.
00:30:02.400 And when we first walked into the White House prior to the briefing, I immediately saw Secretary Hegshev, which was crazy.
00:30:08.780 Um, I've known him, of course, since this time at Fox, and then to transition into this role.
00:30:13.600 But even before that, uh, we're from the same hometown.
00:30:17.280 And so I got to see him and chat with him for a bit.
00:30:19.420 He got to meet baby Margo.
00:30:20.660 We talked for probably five, 10 minutes.
00:30:22.140 And immediately upon leaving the press briefing room, we ran into Chuck Schumer in the White House, which actually he had some pretty kind things to say about Margo.
00:30:30.920 He stopped and talked to her for a bit and said that she's just the cutest little baby.
00:30:34.500 Uh, and then we saw Tom Homan, which he, to me, is one of my favorite Trump picks because he's just a normal person.
00:30:45.360 Like I think, you know, I don't know him personally very well, but based on what I can conclude from his interviews, how he conducts himself, even the words that he uses, like he's just a normal guy who is frustrated with the direction of the country and was willing to do whatever he needed to do to step up.
00:31:04.400 And take action.
00:31:05.600 So those are just a few of the people that you may see upon walking into the White House on a random Thursday afternoon.
00:31:13.540 Pete Hexeth, Tom Homan, and Chuck Schumer.
00:31:15.840 I'm hopeful we'll have another opportunity to be back in the press briefing room soon.
00:31:19.760 Uh, and we'd love to get Caroline on this show. 1.00
00:31:23.000 We talked about it, uh, when we were together.
00:31:25.000 So hopefully we can expect to see her on the Riley Gaines show soon.
00:31:29.260 Uh, appreciate you guys for tuning in.
00:31:31.900 And we have some exciting stuff coming for next week.
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