Gaines for Girls with Riley Gaines - July 01, 2026


EMERGENCY POD： Riley Gaines Reacts to BLOCKBUSTER SCOTUS Ruling!


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In a landmark ruling, the Supreme Court ruled that boys and girls can play in women's sports. What does this mean for the future of women in sports? What does it mean for gender identity? How does it impact Title IX and the fight for equal pay for women and girls?

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00:00:30.000 Let's freaking go. Let's freaking go. Yesterday was a really, really big day for women's sports
00:00:40.360 and for female athletes. I feel like we should start this episode off by playing the Rocky
00:00:46.220 theme song. That's what's playing in my mind, right? You can picture it. He's like running
00:00:50.800 up the steps. I feel triumphant. I feel vindicated. I feel, of course, excited. There's a part
00:00:58.000 of me that feels exhausted, if I'm being totally honest with you, exhausted that we are still
00:01:05.200 talking about this, that it is still having to be legislated on and ruled on. Absolutely insane to
00:01:11.620 me that as a society, we're applauding and we're celebrating as the highest court in the land
00:01:18.940 says that boys and girls are different. I find myself scratching my head and asking myself how
00:01:25.080 we got here at least once a day for the past four years now. I would imagine many of you are in that
00:01:31.220 same boat. I have to think that it wasn't too long ago where if we had a Supreme Court ruling like
00:01:38.300 this, people would not applaud necessarily. Of course, recognizing it to be the true thing,
00:01:44.640 highlighting reality and common sense. But I don't think we would have seen applause because it was
00:01:49.260 the standard position to take. It was the default position. You know, if you heard the ruling,
00:01:55.180 let's say 10, 20 years ago, you have Clarence Thomas who says, look, boys cannot play in girls
00:02:00.920 sports. You would not immediately go to clapping and cheering. You would say, well, duh, duh,
00:02:07.180 boys can't play in girls sports. So there's excitement. Yes. Long awaited, of course,
00:02:13.680 But there's a part of me that's exhausted that we're still having this conversation.
00:02:20.160 Today is just a very brief, quick, special little episode for you guys, kind of breaking down the ruling, what it really means, what implications it's going to have, what's still at stake and how the fight continues.
00:02:33.420 Because, of course, there is still more work to be done.
00:02:37.080 But nonetheless, the Supreme Court has just handed women and girls a massive victory and really not just women and girls.
00:02:43.980 OK, they handed common sense Americans, which actually happens to be a majority of Americans, despite what the headlines may say, despite how elected representation is voting.
00:02:53.960 OK, you're not crazy for thinking boys and girls or for knowing boys and girls are physiologically different.
00:02:59.920 you were just handed a massive victory by the Supreme Court because they have upheld reality
00:03:04.480 and federal law, quite frankly, with a favorable ruling on two landmark cases in a single opinion.
00:03:11.560 If you listen to nothing else of this episode, I guess this is what you can take from it. 0.62
00:03:16.400 The ruling in particular is that women's sports can be just for women. Now, the phrasing there
00:03:24.120 is by design. It's important. I'm going to explain why I say women's sports can be for women,
00:03:30.800 not that women's sports must be for women. The two cases that were brought forward,
00:03:34.960 they were addressing state laws in Idaho and West Virginia. These are states that had previously
00:03:41.760 passed legislation that prevented boys from competing in girls' sports at the state level,
00:03:46.940 but challengers came forward. They sued. There were injunctions and delays and yada, yada, yada.
00:03:51.940 now it's before the Supreme Court. Well, the Supreme Court held that state laws reserving
00:03:55.680 girls and women's sports categories does not, in fact, violate Title IX or the Equal Protection
00:04:00.960 Clause. This is really big because they ruled that sex in regard to Title IX means sex,
00:04:08.660 like your biological sex. Sex is not a subjective identity that changes from person to person.
00:04:15.920 Sex is not something that you can just will into existence. Like your sex is what you were born as
00:04:21.440 and what you will die as and what you are the entire time in between.
00:04:25.780 It actually goes as far to say, in the opinion, that in 1970s,
00:04:31.980 when Title IX was initially enacted, that the idea of gender identity,
00:04:39.100 it was never even a concept, it was never even a thought.
00:04:41.260 They never would have imagined that they would have had to define the word sex,
00:04:45.720 but here we are in 2026.
00:04:49.040 That really shouldn't be controversial.
00:04:52.420 And until a few years ago, it was not.
00:04:56.920 And before, again, we break it down really what this means,
00:04:59.660 I just want to say that the timing of this ruling could not be more fitting.
00:05:04.080 Number one, this comes on the last day of Pride Month.
00:05:07.980 I don't know.
00:05:09.240 It feels kind of like you're sticking it to all those out there
00:05:13.580 who are so detached from reality that do believe that you can change your sex.
00:05:17.820 And also, this is just days after the 54th anniversary of Title IX, which again is the civil rights law that opened doors for a generation of female athletes, including myself. Because of Title IX, I was able to compete and succeed and develop as a person the skill sets that I have. It's because of my sport, the friendships that I have. Actually, even my husband, I met him because of my sport.
00:05:41.660 all of that, I really have to thank Title IX and the women who fought for it, the people who fought
00:05:47.060 for it. I feel indebted to those women, women like my grandma, actually. I think we forget it
00:05:53.640 really wasn't that long ago that women didn't have an opportunity to compete at the high school
00:06:01.020 level, certainly not at the college level, just, I mean, 54 years ago. It's really not that long.
00:06:06.720 So in my grandma's same lifetime, she's seen the benefits of having women's sports,
00:06:10.700 And then she's seen the reversal. She's seen that being taken away. And we're fighting that very same fight again. But the good news is the Supreme Court affirmed that states may preserve the very category that Title IX was created and designed to protect. Again, important. There's an important divide here on that portion of it on if those states, specifically Idaho and West Virginia, violated Title IX. 0.84
00:06:36.120 the ruling was actually 9-0 which um i don't know if i'm necessarily surprised by because it is so
00:06:44.400 clear-cut but i've learned that nothing surprises me when you have a sitting supreme court justice
00:06:49.740 who can't answer the question of what is a woman because she says she's not a biologist
00:06:55.300 i've stopped letting myself be surprised okay so that was 9-0 that's good news but the court split
00:07:01.760 actually six to three on whether these laws violate the equal protection clause of the 14th
00:07:08.260 amendment. Um, I'm not going to get too into the weeds because again, I'm no legal expert.
00:07:13.500 Although I did spend majority of the afternoon following the ruling on the phone with lawyers
00:07:18.500 and attorneys, uh, who could, who could really help me understand, because I, again, I want to
00:07:22.680 be able to communicate with you guys, uh, in the most effective and concise and precise way possible.
00:07:28.740 And they explained it to me as this distinction being pretty critical because technically the 14th Amendment is in the Constitution, therefore could potentially override and nullify Title IX.
00:07:42.940 But again, that's not the point of this episode. Anyways, the three dissenting justices were all Democrat appointed women. They would have held that laws protecting women's sports unlawfully discriminate against men.
00:08:00.160 the irony there really speaks for itself. We have seen time and time and time again how liberal
00:08:06.600 women tend to be the biggest hurdle, the biggest obstacle that women have to overcome in the fight 0.97
00:08:14.200 for equality, right? Our fight for equality is presented this obstacle of liberal women. 0.98
00:08:22.340 The irony there, the hypocrisy, again, it speaks for itself. There's just a couple points I want 0.83
00:08:27.040 to make that I notice in reading the opinion and in the dissent. First and foremost, the
00:08:33.840 language shift that we have seen, I really don't think can be overlooked. This is from the opinion
00:08:40.860 of the court. It says, we are acutely aware of the difficulties sometimes faced by boys who
00:08:45.640 identify as girls and by girls who identify as boys in middle school, high school, and beyond.
00:08:50.360 uh this is good because the court is recognizing here that transgender girls are boys uh that
00:08:59.760 language if again it can't be overlooked enough with terms like trans woman or or transgender
00:09:06.000 uh they're just men who claim to be women or they're just people who believe that they're
00:09:11.660 the opposite sex i i don't want to get too in the weeds or maybe you're thinking riley why does it
00:09:16.220 really matter. I'm going to tell you why it matters. It matters because our words mean
00:09:22.140 something. When we use words to communicate, they mean something. Words is what helps you
00:09:27.560 form a picture inside of your mind. This is why I have a problem with all the pronoun 1.00
00:09:31.100 nonsense as well, which admittedly I adhered to at first when I first began to speak out 0.77
00:09:38.000 because I thought that was the respectful thing. I thought it was the kind thing. I
00:09:41.360 thought you needed to in order to, to persuade people to believe you, but just sit and chew on
00:09:46.400 this for a second. It's probably not the best way, uh, to, to phrase that, but think about this.
00:09:52.020 When you use the phrase, as we see oftentimes her penis or her genitalia, her male genitalia, 0.99
00:10:01.140 that is the most absurd thing. Um, I've quite literally ever heard those words that you're 0.99
00:10:07.320 using it's what forms a picture inside your mind okay um enough enough with even saying biological
00:10:15.140 woman to be totally honest with you i hate that i hate that because you're subconsciously admitting 0.50
00:10:21.680 that there's an unbiological alternative to being a woman and there's not that you don't have to 0.66
00:10:27.960 preface it's just woman use clear sex-based language because people are desperate for it 0.78
00:10:34.540 I've got a tweet from ESPN on screen, which let me remind you is owned by Disney. It says the
00:10:40.900 Supreme Court on Tuesday issued a decision to uphold state laws barring transgender girls and
00:10:45.200 women from playing on school athletic teams. You see where I'm going with this? They're men, ESPN,
00:10:51.540 not transgender girls or transgender women. They're men. Be honest. Be honest with yourself. 0.82
00:10:58.480 be honest with the people who look to you for sports content okay you're dishonest hacks at
00:11:05.880 this point and by the way no one is banned we see this rhetoric we see this messaging all the time
00:11:11.160 from the other side when things like this arise this ruling or laws being passed in specific
00:11:15.800 states or president trump's executive orders they say they're banning trans people they're
00:11:20.320 taking their rights away their civil rights to compete you've been lied to if you believe that
00:11:27.520 If you believe that messaging, that rhetoric, that trans people, that men, in this case, because when they say trans people, we know they're talking about men.
00:11:36.380 They're not talking about girls entering boys sports.
00:11:38.460 No, of course not, because that doesn't really happen.
00:11:40.760 Yes, it happens, but not at the same rate, not in the way that fairness is being impeded on as the other way around.
00:11:48.260 No one is being banned.
00:11:50.120 No one.
00:11:50.820 No one is banned because of their gender identity, their sexual orientation, the color of their skin, their religion.
00:11:56.660 Of course not. And they shouldn't be. No one is banned. They're just permitted from competing in
00:12:03.060 a category that does not align with their sex. You can still compete. If you're a man who wants 0.76
00:12:09.240 to claim the identity of a woman, say you are a woman. No, I don't support that. But guess what?
00:12:13.420 You can still compete. You can compete with the men as you are a man. Okay. So don't believe the
00:12:20.880 lie. Don't be gaslit into thinking that trans people are being banned like they're going to
00:12:26.540 tell you because that's simply not happening. It says here, men and boys with gender dysphoria
00:12:30.840 are not women or girls, even if they believe they are. Sex is an immutable biological characteristic.
00:12:37.560 It is binary and man and woman, boy and girl are the terms that correspond to adults and children 0.51
00:12:43.660 of each sex. This is awesome, quite frankly, because the Supreme Court is admitting that
00:12:50.100 gender dysphoria is in fact a mental illness. And they're saying that trans being transgender 0.84
00:12:55.980 doesn't exist at all. And they're right. I even found myself scared to admit that for a while, 1.00
00:13:01.540 because again, I didn't want to be seen as disrespectful to anyone's perceived identity, 1.00
00:13:07.180 but it's true. Transgender doesn't exist because you can't change your gender because you can't 0.99
00:13:12.980 change your sex. We need more people who are willing to speak this truth. It's not to say
00:13:19.220 that there aren't people who believe they were born in the wrong body. Sure, those people exist,
00:13:23.780 but they're not transgender because transgenderism is not real. Gender ideology exists. I have no 0.68
00:13:31.560 problem saying now confidently and emphatically that being transgender does not exist. Following 1.00
00:13:37.860 the ruling, Elizabeth Warren tweeted this out. I have it on screen. It says right-wing extremists
00:13:43.420 in the MAGA movement are determined to single out target and harm the trans community. My heart is
00:13:48.000 with trans kids, all of them, and their loved ones. I won't stop fighting for them. She makes
00:13:54.720 this feel like an obituary, like my heart is with trans kids and their loved ones. How many
00:14:03.320 lifelong liberals do you know that are not MAGA, that would certainly not be classified as right
00:14:11.240 wing extremists who take issue with the gender ideology movement, with the LGBTQ++++ infinite
00:14:20.220 letters community. I know a lot. Maybe it's just from being involved in this space for several 0.93
00:14:28.600 years now. But over the past few years, I've grown to know so many people who, I mean, are
00:14:34.900 kind of ashamed to admit, but they voted for President Biden, who realized the harm that had
00:14:39.180 been done, quite frankly, to the lesbian and gay community, right? The trans stuff being tacked on 0.87
00:14:44.820 to the LGBTQ plus plus plus is harmful to gay people or to their daughters, right? They realize 1.00
00:14:51.480 that. And now they're thinking, what in the world? I would never vote for a Democrat again. They're
00:14:55.700 not MAGA. They're not right-wing extremists. And guess what? If it makes me a right-wing extremist
00:15:01.260 to believe that men and women are physiologically different, chromosomally, anatomically, physically,
00:15:08.380 biologically different than so be it. I guess I'm a right wing extremist. I am no political
00:15:17.140 strategist. I'm really not. But I think I could advise the Democrats if the goal was to win and
00:15:24.040 succeed in the midterms and in 2028 with whoever their Democrat darling will be at the time who
00:15:30.060 they put forward as president, maybe as undemocratically as they did with Kamala Harris.
00:15:34.720 I really do believe I could advise them better than calling 90% of Americans right-wing extremists, again, for believing that boys and girls are physically different. It's utterly insane. These people have no brain left. This ideology, it rots people's ability to think, to think clearly. They can't even see the damage that's being done to women and to girls and to equality, to use their own buzzword, right in front of their nose.
00:16:01.240 Just one more point I want to make, because again, we hear it all the time about, and we just saw it from Elizabeth Warren, essentially, where it's, what about their mental health? What about the boys' mental health? What about their feelings?
00:16:14.500 um honestly i don't feel like we've seen a good rebuttal to this on a national stage like we have
00:16:21.500 until today the obvious response to this when someone says what about the boy's feelings or
00:16:29.040 or the person who identifies as trans what about his feelings the obvious response to this is what
00:16:35.440 about the girl's feelings what about their mental health that what if about if they feel violated
00:16:42.880 in an intimate area of undressing and they turn around and there's a six foot four man?
00:16:47.800 What about their feelings when they're excluded from their travel team because a man had taken
00:16:53.980 their spot or they don't get that scholarship because a man was awarded that scholarship,
00:16:57.480 right? What about those girls? They have never been a consideration to the other side of the 0.90
00:17:03.100 aisle, which is quite telling. I think they've made the point that a man's feelings matter more
00:17:11.020 than a woman's physical safety, especially in like a sport where you're colliding with one
00:17:15.540 another, throwing something at one another. They're saying a man's feelings matter more
00:17:19.300 than a woman's actual safety. But today we saw actually Justice Brett Kavanaugh directing
00:17:27.500 attention towards the girls, which I really appreciated. He says in conducting the equal
00:17:33.060 protection inquiry, we must also account for the effects on girls who are forced to compete
00:17:37.780 against biological males in sports. It seems so simple, right? Like again, it's one of those
00:17:43.560 moments, but I don't think we had seen something like that. So I was very excited to see this.
00:17:49.880 Let's go back to this ruling. What does it really mean? I know I've kind of built it up again. It's
00:17:55.460 celebratory. We're excited. This is long awaited. It's a good thing. And of course, all of that is
00:17:59.740 true, but it's not as strong as we'd like it to be. Shocker, right? And by we, I mean, those of
00:18:06.920 us who believe that girls, regardless of where they live, regardless of what their zip code is,
00:18:11.900 should never have to fear being met with a large man standing on the other side of the volleyball
00:18:16.960 net staring that young girl down. The ruling does not mean that states have to make the women's
00:18:23.480 category exclusive to real women. It just means that it's not illegal if they do. So again, 0.88
00:18:30.840 that distinction matters. It's like a may not must. 27 states have passed some sort of fairness
00:18:37.020 in women's sports law, meaning that 23 states have not passed some sort of law. So fairness
00:18:44.700 and safety in sports for girls very much depends on your zip code. So then the question is,
00:18:50.020 okay, well, where do we go from here? I think there's a lot of people who believe there's
00:18:54.800 nothing left to be done because President Trump is in the Oval Office and he's done everything
00:18:58.460 that he can do, right? Wrong. While certainly he deserves credit for making all of this issue
00:19:08.020 really impossible to ignore, he campaigned on it. He signed executive orders on day one. He
00:19:14.880 hasn't been shy talking about the issue. You've seen the videos of him imitating like the 0.75
00:19:20.280 weightlifter. I see him on TikTok all the time. I will say if the president ever becomes tired of
00:19:27.900 being the president. I think comedian is calling his name. But executive orders, they are not
00:19:34.220 permanent. The next president can revoke those with the stroke of a pen. So we need Congress to
00:19:39.500 act. This has stalled because of some weird, obscure rules in the Senate pertaining to like
00:19:46.600 a cloture vote. It has stalled in the Senate. We've seen the House pass, I think it's H.R. 28,
00:19:51.380 the Protection of Women and Girls in Sports Act. Haven't seen it move in the Senate. So those
00:19:55.220 things need to be codified rather than leaving them dependent on whichever administration is
00:19:59.760 in the White House. We still need states to act through legislation or through ballot measures,
00:20:05.860 referendums, initiatives. We need real enforcement mechanisms, and we need a culture that is willing
00:20:11.080 to push back. I think, honestly, most importantly, that is how you really make change. When the
00:20:16.360 culture shifts, that's when you will begin to see whether it's institutions, corporations,
00:20:21.400 businesses, universities, large governing bodies, specific sport governing bodies.
00:20:28.020 That's when you will see those change when the culture changes, I personally believe.
00:20:33.180 So then the question becomes, well, what happens to states like California or Washington or Maine
00:20:40.240 or Minnesota or Michigan or any of the states, right? You know the ones that I'm talking about,
00:20:45.240 those who have up until this point openly defied President Trump and his executive order and
00:20:50.840 federal law. Well, to put it pretty frankly, those states will continue to suffer from the very real
00:20:56.580 diagnosable debilitating disease they contracted in 2016, which is TDS Trump derangement syndrome.
00:21:04.640 Those those states will continue to be the villains in this story. I have no reason to believe that
00:21:09.620 they won't continue to to give a middle finger to President Trump, or at least that's what they
00:21:14.160 think they're doing. They think by defying federal law, they're sticking it to President Trump when
00:21:19.940 the reality is that's not what they're doing. They're giving a middle finger to every young
00:21:24.480 girl in their state. We have no reason to believe that they won't continue to do just that. So
00:21:30.500 I hope we see, I mentioned those enforcement mechanisms. I hope we see the Department of
00:21:34.880 Justice maybe working in collaboration with the Department of Education aggressively enforce
00:21:40.760 existing federal law against these institutions that, again, continue to violate the rights of
00:21:46.780 women and girls, which this is not going to be immediate, right? Unfortunately, legal challenges,
00:21:53.100 they take time, it takes effort, it takes money, quite frankly. Activist states will certainly
00:21:59.880 seek injunctions and delays, okay? But we know that's at least effective, or at least history
00:22:05.660 has proven it to be. You hit them where it hurts. That's the pockets. That's when things begin to
00:22:12.300 change course, when ignoring reality becomes too expensive. And again, I think that's partly the
00:22:18.400 answer. I think it needs to be expensive for people who knowingly and willingly put girls 0.99
00:22:24.060 in harm's way for the sake of ideology. I think that needs to cost them something.
00:22:27.960 Next thing I want to give my thoughts on here is, will the trans issue continue to be
00:22:32.720 a front-running issue in 2026 and 2028? Will Democrats continue to lean into their extremism?
00:22:40.660 They've given us no reason to believe that this issue won't be front and center again the next
00:22:44.860 election cycle. This is the hill the Democrats have chosen to die on, which is quite remarkable.
00:22:51.920 And as a conservative, if there weren't real implication, if there weren't real consequences
00:22:57.580 to their actions and their messaging and what they're advocating for, they're pretty
00:23:02.160 destructive, harmful policies, I would say, then go for it. Please, by all means, continue this
00:23:07.540 absolutely insane, radical position, because guess what? It makes it easier for us. President
00:23:13.380 Trump's most effective campaign in the last election was Kamala Harris is for they, them,
00:23:19.120 Donald Trump is for you. That resonated with people. And following that red wave, right,
00:23:24.400 President Trump in the Oval Office, maintaining control of the House, gaining control of the
00:23:28.620 Senate, you would think, at least I thought, naturally, again, as a logical, rational thinking
00:23:35.720 person, or at least so I like to think, I believe that Democrats would recant and distance themselves
00:23:42.800 from their extreme positions. They haven't done that at all. They have only become more radical.
00:23:49.640 There are several examples of this. Mom Donnie is an obvious one, but not just in hyper-liberal
00:23:56.480 states like New York. It's also in states like Virginia, where they previously had a Republican
00:24:00.780 Attorney General, Jason Meares. Now it's Jay Jones, who I believe engaged in the most violent
00:24:07.540 and extreme rhetoric that we have seen from any major level candidate of any race, local, state,
00:24:12.780 and federal, and saying that he wishes to watch the children of his political opponents die in
00:24:16.800 their parents' arms. And he won. He is now the state's top law enforcement officer. That is a
00:24:22.580 condemnation of humanity. Look who they're putting forward in Texas, James Tellarico,
00:24:27.620 who believes that God is non-binary and that there are six genders for crying out loud. Okay. So I
00:24:35.340 believe as long as they continue insisting that biological sex doesn't matter, it doesn't matter
00:24:40.660 in sports or in bathrooms or in locker rooms or prisons or domestic violence shelters, so long as
00:24:46.160 they continue to insist this, I believe that Republicans should not stop asking the question.
00:24:50.540 Every single candidate who is seeking public office, I really believe should have to answer the incredibly simple question of should boys compete in girls sports? Easy, right? I would emphatically say no. I mean, full stop, period.
00:25:09.060 or if their answer is some form of yes or deflection or silence, they refuse to engage
00:25:17.900 in this conversation, then that should be disqualifying to any common sense American.
00:25:23.500 If you cannot emphatically and confidently and without hesitation say that men cannot
00:25:30.040 become women, that women do not need prostate exams, that men cannot get pregnant, that
00:25:35.960 boys don't need tampons in their bathrooms. If you cannot confidently say those things,
00:25:40.800 then why should I believe a single word that comes out of your mouth on any topic,
00:25:45.880 any topic under the sun? You've already proven yourself to be a liar. And again, 1.00
00:25:50.940 detach from reality. Big picture, what is still at stake? As you guys know, as I've said in this
00:26:00.860 this episode uh this isn't the finish line like we wanted it to be uh actually it's really just
00:26:07.840 the starting line uh title nine it once again means something now we must work to make sure
00:26:14.580 that every single state recognizes its significance for all americans but specifically for women and
00:26:22.060 for girls this case it was never only about sports and there are some good parts that have come out
00:26:27.900 of the opinion, whether that be the 9-0 portion of the ruling, whether that be the verbiage shift
00:26:34.340 that we've seen, that indicate broader implications. But this case, it was never just about
00:26:43.580 sports, at least not in my eyes. I think sports simply revealed the broader question that our
00:26:49.360 country has been wrestling with for years, and that is, does biological sex still matter under
00:26:56.420 the law. Uh, and this week's decision says yes. And that is an enormous victory, uh, that we
00:27:03.460 should certainly be celebrating. Uh, but until every girl in every state has the same protections,
00:27:10.940 uh, then the work remains unfinished. Um, it shouldn't depend on your geography or your zip
00:27:19.680 code if you're entitled to fairness. And then you have to also think, okay, I live in Tennessee.
00:27:24.380 What if I have, uh, a, a meet or a competition in a blue state, then what am I not protected? Then
00:27:33.240 every girl deserves those protections. And for me now, uh, this is not just this abstract legal
00:27:40.760 debate. Uh, it's personal. It's about my daughter. Now that's who I think of. That's who I've thought
00:27:47.740 of for the last nine months. She's been alive. She's nine months now. It's crazy. Um, I want her
00:27:52.580 to know that if she earns a championship, uh, it's because she's the best woman or girl, uh,
00:28:00.140 not because adults have redefined what a woman is. I want her to know that if she's told that
00:28:07.180 she has equal opportunity to, to achieve and to succeed, uh, that those words actually means I
00:28:13.920 want her generation to inherit a country that doesn't require courage to acknowledge obvious
00:28:20.020 biological reality, a biological reality that you don't even have to learn. It's just innate.
00:28:27.160 It's inherent. You know it. You know it in kindergarten, right? As someone with a brother,
00:28:31.240 I knew, I mean, as young as I could remember that he and I were different, okay? That's what I want
00:28:36.840 my daughter to inherit, a world where it doesn't take courage to say that. That, not trying to be
00:28:42.940 hyperbolic, not trying to be, you know, to put on a big exaggeration here, that is what is still
00:28:49.240 at stake. So this week, the Supreme Court, they took a massive step, an important step,
00:28:55.180 an urgent step toward restoring that reality. But now it's up to the rest of us to finish
00:29:02.900 the job. More work to do, which I know that might make some people mad, right? They thought we'd get
00:29:09.820 this ruling and Riley would just go away. Unfortunately not. There's still more work to do.
00:29:15.660 I would love to go away. I would. Um, I just went away to Montana last week, which was awesome to,
00:29:22.480 to be hiking in the mountains. You put your phone away. You don't have to listen to the outside
00:29:25.840 noise or to, to the comments online. Okay. Um, that was like serendipitous for me. It really was,
00:29:33.060 I would love to go away. Uh, but unfortunately for, for all my, my haters, uh, it's not going
00:29:42.380 to be that easy. As there's more work to do, I will continue fighting. And I know those of you
00:29:47.820 who listen and watch the Riley Gaines show, who follow us over on Instagram at the Riley Gaines
00:29:53.300 show, uh, we'll continue fighting as well. So thank you guys. Um, let's relish in the win.
00:30:00.580 Um, but keep our foot on the gas. See you guys.
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