Gaines for Girls with Riley Gaines - Celebrating Women's Achievements in Sports

00:00:00.000 hello everybody welcome back to the gains for girls podcast thank you for watching or listening

00:00:12.760 make sure you check us out at outkick.com anywhere where you get your podcasts you can like and

00:00:18.740 subscribe and follow along so you never miss an episode uh super excited because today we are

00:00:24.740 talking to my state's senator one of the two we are talking to senator marcia blackburn that she has

00:00:31.480 been someone who has been a champion a champion for female athletes uh in her support of the

00:00:37.800 protection of women and girls in sports act her uh how really she has has been able to highlight and

00:00:44.320 share the importance of title nine what it has meant to women uh what the biden harris administration

00:00:49.720 has done to title nine but super excited to talk to her today because she recently uh attempted to

00:00:56.140 introduce the american girls in sports day resolution which would just celebrate the accomplishments of

00:01:03.040 real women in the athletic space uh but to to really no one's surprise at least no one's surprised who 1.00

00:01:10.640 has been paying attention it was blocked uh she has been steadfast in her uh criticism again of the of

00:01:17.460 of our government of the biden harris administration uh but she's been critical of the ncaa so we will

00:01:22.040 talk about her uh recent actions with the ncaa where that stands we're going to get into the border uh how

00:01:30.280 children at the border who have come across the southern border are missing in this country uh 320 000

00:01:37.000 that's that's the most recent number that's been reported 320 000 children are missing uh we will talk

00:01:44.360 about all of these things in our episode here so be sure to stay and listen to this episode with

00:01:50.160 senator marsha blackburn well senator blackburn thank you so much for joining the gains for girls podcast

00:01:56.760 uh i see all the green and the trees behind you which tells me you are not in dc you are in the

00:02:03.120 beautiful state my home state your home state of tennessee uh so i am just i'm sure you are super

00:02:09.840 thrilled about that uh you don't get to spend much time at home and so i hope you enjoy uh the time

00:02:15.940 in tennessee but very glad you're on um i wanted to talk with you though because recently you introduced

00:02:23.060 the american girls in sports day resolution which would merely celebrate the accomplishments of real

00:02:30.460 women in the athletic space uh this might come as a shock to some but it's unsurprising to anyone who 1.00

00:02:38.380 has been paying attention uh the past few years uh it was blocked um i saw this and and i was i mean

00:02:46.560 i'm more than frustrated i felt disheartened because we as women the message that was sent the message i 0.99

00:02:51.440 received is that we don't get a day the lgbtq community they can have months and days on end even

00:02:57.580 this past easter sunday which the biden harris administration declared as as trans visibility day

00:03:03.280 but women don't even we don't even get a day you're right about that and riley i'm so delighted

00:03:11.240 to join you and thrilled to know that you are doing the gains for girls podcast and i think that young

00:03:18.840 women need to hear from you because they're inspired and encouraged by listening to your message and

00:03:25.840 you're right those on the left right now seem to think that we don't need to celebrate our female

00:03:33.060 athletes and of course we were looking at doing a resolution to honor our female athletes and

00:03:41.940 celebrate title nine and in 2022 when title nine turned 50 years old i had done the resolution that

00:03:50.600 honored title nine and then of course we know subsequently the biden administration tried to

00:03:57.820 weaken it and i want everyone to know you're the one that had the idea of doing it on october 10th

00:04:05.900 which gives us the roman numerals xx so it becomes october 10th for our american girls that's xx for xx and

00:04:19.740 we think that that is vitally important set this day aside celebrate these female accomplishments and here's why 0.97

00:04:28.480 when title nine went on the books in 1972 and these doors of opportunity were open to women at that point

00:04:39.760 we had fewer than 300 000 female athletes high school college athletes today we have over 1.00

00:04:50.120 three million and of course as people have paid more attention this summer because of the olympics and

00:04:58.360 they've watched the trials they have watched the different competitions they have cheered for their

00:05:04.920 their favorite athletes uh we've cheered for tennesseans that were competing and for all of team usa

00:05:13.020 and riley they've they have been frustrated when there would be a time when there was a male who was

00:05:19.840 swimming or running or boxing or fighting or playing tennis against a biological female 0.94

00:05:27.920 and it's a male that was choosing not to compete in the male category but was being allowed to compete

00:05:39.060 in the female category and i have heard from so many people not only from tennessee but across the country

00:05:48.700 who have said you know what female sports need to be for females male sports need to be for males 0.99

00:05:57.000 but let's not have men competing in women's sports and this is one of those issues i think 80 percent of

00:06:04.780 the american people agree that women's sports should be for women and they are frustrated when they see

00:06:13.340 things like happened in the u.s senate on the floor of the senate last week when a senator came to the floor

00:06:19.860 and blocked the resolution to recognize american girls achievements in the sports arena

00:06:28.040 that's right we saw um chris murphy snyder murphy uh i mean he was tweeting you know i mean i believe he

00:06:36.260 actually on the senate floor called you a small person whatever that means uh he said he was going to go

00:06:41.840 down to object this republican bill that marginalizes and shames gay and transgender children first of

00:06:49.900 all this has nothing to do with sexual orientation at all so to even include being gay straight that

00:06:56.260 that has nothing to do with what you were trying to do which again is honor women it has nothing to

00:07:01.740 even do with trans people um we saw i guess what are some of the the common responses uh whether it was

00:07:10.340 the protection of women and girls in sports act or the american girls in sports day resolution what are

00:07:15.160 some of the common responses from those who who oppose this because i agree with you i mean you said the

00:07:22.640 number 80 percent i i would argue that it's even higher than that of american people who agree that this

00:07:29.060 is unfair and unsafe uh more importantly and so from your colleagues across the aisle what what are some

00:07:35.340 common responses uh from those who who oppose these acts they voice their objection uh on the floor or in

00:07:43.280 their remarks but then giving any further response they don't and they try to couch it in fairness but i want

00:07:53.640 to tell you something having a biological male compete against a female having them get the title the trophy 0.96

00:08:03.140 the opportunity the chance of listing that as a success what that does is to deny that female that title or trophy

00:08:16.920 or success or that victory and instead of sports being a way to grow uh teamwork it becomes something that is

00:08:29.060 divisive and what we want to do is see girls have that opportunity to learn how to be a part of a team

00:08:35.920 and i think it's why uh when you see responses like senator murphy's it is hard for the american people to

00:08:44.940 understand and when they just say well it's about fairness and everybody needs to compete but if it's about

00:08:52.740 fairness then let's have a male category let's have a female category let's have a female category let's 1.00

00:08:58.560 have a category where students that are trans can compete if you want to talk about competing fairly

00:09:07.320 and what we want to do is protect these opportunities so that women have a category where they can run 1.00

00:09:16.940 they can swim they can play golf and tennis and baseball softball volleyball they can get those

00:09:26.280 scholarships they can compete and they can win i'm thinking back to that clip of course i watched a

00:09:33.800 clip of of both yourself and senator murphy on the senate floor and one thing that it just dawned on me i

00:09:40.060 remember that he said is he said you are more likely to be killed by a falling object in this country

00:09:46.080 than have your daughter compete against a boy or what he called a trans girl um i wish he could

00:09:53.360 see the messages that i receive daily every single day they say this isn't happening it's a solution in

00:10:00.040 search of a problem i'm here to tell you that that's not true it's happening every single day every

00:10:05.680 single level of sport every division every single state across the country this is happening uh so you

00:10:12.260 steadfast of course in calling on our government to enact change a really reverse course from what the

00:10:17.940 biden harris administration has done to title nine uh but you've been steadfast in calling on

00:10:22.600 the ncaa uh even recently uh you sent a letter you you headed this letter to charlie baker and the ncaa

00:10:29.540 uh really urging them to require that only women compete in women's sports uh you had lots of 1.00

00:10:36.040 endorsements on this letter of course uh republican senators like senator tommy tuberville coach tommy

00:10:41.360 tuberville he's also been someone who has continually and consistently championed uh women athletics again

00:10:48.360 no support or endorsements from democrats shocker but the ncaa responded which they responded pretty

00:10:53.980 swiftly actually to your letter and so can you elaborate on what their response was and what your take

00:11:00.640 on it is because it seems to me like the ncaa will continue to wait for other people to tell them what

00:11:07.660 to do yes you know i called it a kick the can letter because they chose not to make a decision and as you

00:11:17.080 mentioned we had several senators i think the number was 37 that joined me on that letter encouraging

00:11:25.240 them to set a policy and the reason why we want them to set a policy riley is because the ncaa is the

00:11:36.740 governing body for college sports since they are the governing body we think there should be a blanket

00:11:46.140 policy that protects women in collegiate sports we think that is vitally important

00:11:55.240 and the ncaa is basically saying well you're going to have different uh bodies uh tennis golf

00:12:03.700 swimming all these different ones and it's going to be different by state so let's just let the states

00:12:10.800 let's let these different governing bodies decide how they're going to do it and i found that really

00:12:17.060 very curious because you don't see the ncaa as saying let's let every school or let's

00:12:25.220 let every conference have their own set of policies and the way they're going to conduct things no the

00:12:33.180 ncaa has rules and regulations and we think that preemptive policy which would protect females and 1.00

00:12:42.320 protect their opportunity in sports and let them find a way to open doors of opportunity for individuals

00:12:51.560 but riley for goodness sakes let's make certain that women have a category where they can compete and 1.00

00:13:00.100 they can win

00:13:00.960 i mean you think of all of the the rules the ncaa has i mean i think of all the rules that the ncaa put

00:13:09.780 in place even over covid a lot of these rules which which to me a swimmer who swam in the water

00:13:16.580 uh thought to be a bit nonsensical in terms of the mask and and the social distancing and all the

00:13:22.080 things but nonetheless those were those were rules that the ncaa created in a blanket style fashion

00:13:28.680 um so i i agree they responded in what i would deem a cowardly fashion and the way that they can say

00:13:35.660 sorry our hands are tied which is of course lacking in responsibility and any sort of accountability

00:13:40.960 right um but talking with you and you know the thing is let's make certain that college athletes

00:13:49.480 have the opportunity to compete during their college career and that they have the ability to be

00:13:57.260 a part of a team and that they have the ability to have that college scholarship and get that education

00:14:05.360 a college career is really quite short it's you've got five years at the most and we want all students

00:14:14.720 to have the opportunity to experience what it is to be a part of a team as we do that there are going

00:14:24.500 to be male categories there are going to be female categories let's protect these opportunities for our 1.00

00:14:31.540 female athletes that's right uh you've been a champion not just for female athletes but really for all women

00:14:38.760 uh earlier this year you introduced the women's suffrage national monument location act

00:14:45.380 which would of course honor women's history month with a monument um the national mall you've been strong

00:14:51.360 in combating uh human trafficking which disproportionately affects women and children uh you've been the lead

00:14:58.200 in trying to subpoena jeffrey epstein's flight logs uh to break apart these sex trafficking rings which

00:15:05.740 feels timely to mention given everything that that's recently surrounding p diddy and so is there any update

00:15:12.080 on that front on the flight logs and and the case of jeffrey epstein we continue to push to get this

00:15:19.180 information and it is because we have pushed that you have seen some records released from the judges

00:15:27.440 and i i think that as we continue our effort to expose this as there are more of these sex

00:15:37.340 traffickers human traffickers that get pulled into court that you're going to there'll be we'll be able

00:15:45.440 to begin to untangle this web of individuals and see how far it's spread globally what we do know

00:15:53.900 is this that human trafficking sex trafficking in the u.s alone is a 15 billion dollar a year

00:16:02.500 business globally it's about 150 billion dollars a year and the saddest stat to me

00:16:10.920 is that in this country in this day and age that a child is bought or sold for sex

00:16:18.840 once every two minutes and that's just a devastating statistic and heartbreaking but it is a child

00:16:29.480 once every two minutes being bought or sold wow yeah i mean hearing this stat and knowing what we know

00:16:39.000 about uh the biden harris administration's progressive policies uh under the borders are i mean

00:16:46.620 the number that we've seen in recently this week and headlines is that 320 000 children have gone

00:16:54.080 missing and so where are these missing kids and why isn't this a headline on every single media outlet

00:17:01.440 this should be something that all of us agree on but we know that's not the case we saw in the u.s

00:17:06.220 where the violence again go ahead yeah when it was 85 000 children about 19 months ago that was the

00:17:14.460 first time i sent a letter over to secretary becerra at hhs uh because the office of refugee resettlement is

00:17:22.280 in health and human services and i i said where are these children because we found out that the

00:17:31.340 children were missing because of some new york times reports that as they were doing stories on something

00:17:40.840 else realized that these were trafficked children that were working in these food processing plants

00:17:48.280 and so we began to do some digging on it we had a couple of whistleblowers and now we're finding out

00:17:55.340 that the number may be as high as you said 320 000 children that have come across the border

00:18:04.500 and hhs the federal government does not know where they are they they're sponsors who many were improperly

00:18:14.200 vetted they're not at the address that they were given they are not answering the phone for the phone

00:18:21.820 number they were given there is no contact with them the children have not shown up in court

00:18:28.140 on their notice to appear so that we need to find out where these children are and one of the things

00:18:38.060 riley that i have tried to do is we looked at this we found out that during the trump years they did

00:18:46.480 dna testing at the border it's about a 45 minute test and that test would tell you if the child was

00:18:56.200 related to the adult that was bringing them and they would do this when there was no papers or no way

00:19:03.180 to be certain that a child was related to the to the adult that was bringing them well it turns out

00:19:12.160 about 35 percent 40 percent of the children that were coming with an adult that didn't have proper

00:19:18.840 paperwork they were being trafficked so at that point border patrol was able to separate the child

00:19:25.680 from that adult and be able to return that child to their rightful family well because the biden

00:19:33.880 administration felt like the dna test took too long took too much time they eliminated that so i have had

00:19:44.220 legislation that would require that dna test at the border to be certain that these children are not

00:19:53.000 being trafficked we also have the save girls act that is bipartisan is senator klobuchar and i and it is 0.68

00:20:03.140 grants to local law enforcement to make certain that they can get the tools that they need to do these

00:20:11.740 interdictions and to rescue these these girls so it's a pool of money that they can go in and break apart 1.00

00:20:20.880 these sex trafficking rings and rescue these women and girls and uh there are steps like that that are

00:20:32.300 common sense steps that as you say there should there shouldn't be disagreement on that these things

00:20:39.960 should be done immediately that's right uh well there is no demographic more vulnerable uh but more

00:20:49.300 important to protect and to safeguard than the demographic of children and so we appreciate the

00:20:56.240 the stand that you have taken uh for both children and women which is it blows my mind because the democrats

00:21:03.420 they say they are the party for women um you and i both know what they mean when they say that

00:21:11.640 so i guess to you i mean what issues should women care about more than the right to dismember a developing child 1.00

00:21:21.620 yeah and when you look at um this issue around abortion and the only people that want to federalize

00:21:33.860 abortion regulations and restrictions are the democrats

00:21:37.940 and because of the dobbs decision this has been sent back to the states and a vote of the people

00:21:46.440 and that is where those issues should be resolved and every state is going to have their issues

00:21:56.560 approached a little bit differently but in a post-dobbs era that is where those go we also have seen

00:22:06.600 a lot of states riley i began to pick up their support for mothers with children with young children

00:22:15.680 more that is being done on training and helping young moms learn how to be a mom and support that is

00:22:28.660 coming around these families additional support support that would allow benefits to go to a woman when she 0.97

00:22:36.440 finds out she's pregnant so that she has those extra support dollars during that time uh that she is 0.71

00:22:44.840 pregnant well i appreciate you explaining that because uh i mean the general public we see the tweets that

00:22:52.220 are put out by kamala harris on her account saying you know using the phrase of trump's national abortion

00:22:57.900 ban so you explaining that debuts uh that entirely um i can say yeah there's no national no man and the

00:23:10.020 issue has been sent back to the states well um i can tell you as a woman i care more about walking the

00:23:17.360 street safely at night i care more about being able to afford basic necessities i want to support the

00:23:23.940 party who can define what a woman is i guess they can define and you of course have been pivotal

00:23:32.120 in that that simple but but seemingly dreaded question of of what is a woman and so we thank you

00:23:40.020 senator blackburn again for your stand for common sense uh but your stand for policies that protect the

00:23:47.560 safety and the well-being of tennesseans like myself but much broader uh of everyday americans

00:23:54.040 and so thank you we will continue to champion and support you uh the legislation that that you are

00:24:00.240 moving through the senate uh and all the ways that we can absolutely thank you so much what a what an

00:24:06.760 honor to join you i am so proud of you and so appreciative of the great work that you're doing keep it up

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Gaines for Girls with Riley Gaines - October 11, 2024

Celebrating Women's Achievements in Sports

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