Why aren t women like Brooke ever considered when we talk about the feelings of those affected by these decisions? Because the woke left doesn t care. The woke left does not care about women. What s next in the fight? In this episode, we talk with Rob Farquharson, a part of the Texas Attorney General's Office, about the latest updates on the issue of men and women's sports and beyond.
00:01:51.220Very excited to talk with him about what's going on with U.S. Masters Swimming, the U.S. Tennis Association, and even the NCAA.
00:01:58.200One thing about Rob, and I think it's important that you guys know this, he is now running for county court at law number two in Kauffman County.
00:02:10.080I think after listening to this episode today, you guys will understand why.
00:02:14.480So if you want all the latest updates on the issue of men and women's sports and beyond, listen to this episode here.
00:02:19.420Well, Rob, thank you for joining the Gains for Girls podcast.
00:02:25.100Really, there has been no Attorney's General Office that has done more for the social epidemic of gender ideology on really all fronts, on the medicalization front, on the parental rights front, what's happening in the educational realm, of course, on the issue of men and women's sports, than the state of Texas.
00:02:44.720And so can you walk us through some of the different investigations and suits that your office has launched on really any of those topics, but I think specifically on the issue of men and women's sports?
00:02:57.720Because one of the things that I have admired so much in these past few years, feeling like I've really began to understand the inner workings and the nature, especially of the media landscape surrounding some of the cultural chaos.
00:03:13.960Lots of people want the headlines, right?
00:03:17.400They want to appear as if they're doing the right thing, the moral thing, the just thing, the fair thing, but they're not actually willing to do something about it beyond giving a quote.
00:03:28.260Your office continually does what they can to prevent this issue from happening.
00:03:33.700And it sounds like the bare minimum, but nonetheless, admirable, necessary, urgent, and I'm deeply grateful.
00:03:40.800So can you walk us through some of these investigations in different suits that your office has launched?
00:03:46.380Yeah, well, first, we are super grateful for you, grateful for the example that you set for girls across the country.
00:03:53.200And I think that it all really starts at, and you know this, it starts with, we have a brave, fearless warrior in our Attorney General, Ken Paxton.
00:04:02.180Ken Paxton, like you said, when he pursues these things, he doesn't stop at the headline.
00:04:07.700But Ken Paxton wants to stop men in women's sports, period, end of story.
00:04:13.640And until that's accomplished, he's not going to stop.
00:04:16.540So with respect to the lawsuits that we've got, we have had, we initially sued the NCAA, followed by that, we sued U.S. Masters Swimming.
00:04:27.140And then recently, I guess we didn't sue them, they sued us, the U.S. Tennis Association, we opened an investigation, and they, I think, saw the writing on the wall, ran down to a Travis County court.
00:04:43.500And so they stopped our investigation, they sued us.
00:04:46.900And what the angle of our lawsuit is, is it deceptive trade practices, right?
00:05:29.840And so, yeah, we have had, we've got two doctors up here in the DFW area that we are suing, that we are suing for violating SB-14 and mutilating children.
00:05:44.440One of those doctors actually recently surrendered her medical license and left the state.
00:05:50.660And again, all goes back to Attorney General Ken Paxton.
00:05:54.000Well, praise God, I think, especially in regard to the unregulated butchery of children, I long wait the day where we see every state's Attorney's General Office go after these monsters.
00:06:11.340I mean, it's so like Frankenstein-esque when you really think about what is happening, what they're doing, how they're cutting off healthy body parts of children or adults for that matter.
00:06:21.960And sometimes, I mean, it merely requires like a 30-minute consultation prior to that.
00:06:28.260So I appreciate you guys and the work that you're doing there.
00:06:32.220A few things more sinister than that practice.
00:06:35.640We talked about some of the different investigations and suits surrounding the issue of men and women's sports.
00:06:41.940Before we get into that and some of the status on some of these cases, I wanted to ask you about the recent strongman competition that went viral on social media.
00:06:50.660I think largely because, I mean, this was like very much a South Park episode.
00:06:59.300They had predicted the future, which they have proven themselves like that in The Simpsons, like they have the ability to do somehow.
00:07:07.540Anyways, you're picturing in your head the big, strong, burly man standing atop the podium, holding the trophy.
00:07:14.220The girl in second looks visibly upset by this, right?
00:07:17.260Like, this happened, it went viral, it was exposed, what strongman had been doing.
00:07:23.900But they pretty quickly released a statement saying that they were unaware of this.
00:07:29.760They attempted to make things right by awarding the second place finisher, the rightful champion, with the trophy, stripping him of his title.
00:07:39.180Anyways, they did this almost immediately.
00:07:42.220Would this have been something that the Texas Attorney General Office could have or maybe would have looked into had strongmen not quickly acted here?
00:08:29.380He has won many national titles in the women's category.
00:08:35.420Recently, it was World Aquatics, I believe, that barred him from participating in women's sports until he was willing to take a pretty generic sex screening verification test, which basically all this is, is a very simple cheek swab.
00:08:50.220But Hugo, that is his male name, I believe he now goes by Anna or Hannah, maybe.
00:08:56.720He came out and said, chromosomal tests are invasive and expensive procedures.
00:09:02.020My insurance refuses to cover such a test because it's not medically necessary.
00:09:05.640No U.S. state requires genetic tests for recreational sports events like these.
00:09:09.540Not even U.S. Masters Swimming, the national governing body for recreational adult swimming in the U.S., demands this for any of its events.
00:09:15.880I will just say to this really quickly, because this is something that I know, I'll speak personally, I've been pushing for, is sex screening.
00:09:24.800Again, it's a very easy way to determine chromosomally what you are, either male or female.
00:09:32.140This is the policy that I believe and something that we're hoping for out of our lawsuit, Gaines v. NCAA, will achieve.
00:09:38.560But the idea that this is invasive, a simple cheek swab, let's go back to COVID when we were having our brains tickled by a cute tip.
00:10:18.040In 44 states, you can change the sex on your birth certificate.
00:10:22.100And at least 14 of those states, like Tampon Tim up in Minnesota, you can confidentially change the sex on your birth certificate.
00:10:30.620So, you know, then you have a person who was born a man, changes the sex on their birth certificate to be female.
00:10:40.140And in some of these states, the birth certificate, the original one is confidential.
00:10:45.000And the second one cannot be marked as amended.
00:10:47.700There is no way for any sports association like U.S. Masters Swimming or any of these others to then know that the person has changed their birth sex.
00:10:57.260And with respect to whether or not it's invasive, as you know, the NCAA, a lot of these sports associations, they do drug testing.
00:11:06.220You mentioned that there's a cheek swab.
00:12:32.260And so that's the focus of the lawsuit is to, you know, go after their past conduct and the deception that they caused.
00:12:42.140Like I said, I mean, and again, this all goes back to Attorney General Paxton.
00:12:47.720He is committed to stopping this and to stopping this consumer deception.
00:12:52.180So what if U.S. Masters came back at this point and said, okay, well, we will let our athletes know that a male is going to be in the pool.
00:13:02.240At that point, are they in compliance with state and federal law?
00:14:35.900So regarding the NCAA, one of the misconceptions about the public was that following President Trump's executive order about banning men from women's sports within any educational program that receives federal funds,
00:14:47.300I think the public believed the notion that the NCAA would follow suit, and understandably so.
00:14:55.300The NCAA released a statement agreeing to comply in the following days after this EO.
00:15:01.680But, right, shocker, like that was all talk from the NCAA.
00:15:05.860As I've alluded to on this episode, we have an ongoing case with the NCAA.
00:15:12.900But you mentioned the state of Texas has sued as well.
00:15:16.180And so can you talk about this suit and even where things currently stand with the NCAA and them allowing men to play in women's sports?
00:15:26.880Yeah, so the NCAA, like U.S. Masters Swimming, when you, you know, plug into a TV or you go to an event and you are watching, let's say, for example, women's volleyball, that was one of the most recent examples,
00:15:42.700you expect that you're watching women, right?
00:15:45.180And when you send your daughter off to college to go play women's volleyball in the NCAA, you expect that she's living with and that she's playing against women.
00:15:54.920And the NCAA was, that's not what their policy was.
00:16:00.660Their policy was that men could compete.
00:17:15.040Would you agree that there are two biological sexes?
00:17:18.660And the person that the NCAA designated to be their representative said, I would not agree that there are only two biological sexes, right?
00:17:30.260We're, we're just not even on the same playing field, right?
00:17:38.500But, you know, our Attorney General Ken Paxton, he's ready to fight this thing to the end until, until the NCAA gets into compliance.
00:17:47.120But, I'm so curious, when you have people in these, like, prestigious, powerful positions, such as this, representing, you know, a high-level case, who say things like this.
00:17:58.840Like, if you were to continue to press them and say, like, okay, then how many are there?
00:18:32.020And any normal person would see it that way as well.
00:18:35.720In talking about the NCAA, in talking about volleyball, and in talking about birth certificates being made fraudulent, there was a pretty high-profile story coming out of California, but surrounding a Texas native by the name of Brooke Slusser at San Jose State University.
00:18:53.200This is one of those cases where a male athlete changed, my understanding, has changed his birth certificate and all identifying documentation, government-issued documentation, to appear as if he was born a woman.
00:20:37.980And so my question for you is, and again, I understand your position in this as a legal mind, but, I mean, this question could be asked to anyone.
00:20:47.360It's like, why aren't women like Brooke ever considered when we talk about the feelings of those affected by these decisions?
00:21:00.580The woke left does not care about women.
00:21:03.320We, you know, thank God for women like you and for women like Brooke who are willing to, I mean, it's not easy to stand up in the face of opposition and to be the sole person who says, hey, this isn't right.
00:22:27.600It's total betrayal by an institution whose job it is, really, to protect you.
00:22:36.020What are some of the latest wins that we've seen surrounding this issue, not just in the state of Texas, but, I mean, even internationally?
00:22:43.820We've seen some big news out of the IOC, even.
00:22:47.000So, can you speak to maybe a few of the wins that we've seen?
00:22:52.260So, we've got the IOC, World Athletics, and World Boxing.
00:23:01.220Those organizations, and correct me if I'm wrong, my understanding is that all of them have committed to, at some level, implementing SRY gene screening.
00:23:10.000And so, that's going to be the new golden standard.
00:23:13.740The SRY gene screening, like you mentioned, it's a very similar, or it's a very simple test, and it's an inexpensive test.
00:23:26.540And so, you know, I think those, I don't know exactly where the IOC stands, but I know that they had put out that announcement recently.
00:23:34.200My understanding with the IOC is that their policy won't be released until January.
00:23:40.420They've been cryptic in saying, you know, we've turned this around, but we don't know what the policy is yet.
00:23:47.040So, my understanding is that we should know soon if the policy is satisfactory.
00:23:53.920And I'm of the same mind where if you don't have the SRY gene screening or test, then I don't believe this is a satisfactory policy, especially when competing at the highest and most elite level, that being the Olympics.
00:24:08.180But World Boxing, they've done a phenomenal job.
00:24:11.940I think, really, they were one of the, they were, like, the first to do a policy as, you know, well as they've done.
00:24:20.540World Aquatics has followed suit, so hopefully we see more.
00:24:23.720On the other hand, you have other sport governing bodies, such as the NWSL, the National Women's Soccer League, that have atrocious policies in place and do not protect women at all.
00:24:37.460And so, I guess my question for you is, what's next in the fight?
00:24:39.880I know earlier this month we saw that in the state of Texas, the Texas Women's Privacy Act went into place, which means no more men and women's prisons, or really any private space, like locker rooms, bathrooms, domestic violence shelters, as I said, prisons.
00:24:55.860Is this kind of the next necessary step that states can and should be taking?
00:25:09.880Not that this needs to be broken up into steps.
00:25:13.040I mean, it seems so obvious that men should not be in women's private spaces.
00:25:19.300Women deserve their own private spaces.
00:25:21.400I mean, the fact that we have to have this discussion about can a man become a woman and can a man go into the bathroom non-consensually with a woman?
00:25:39.500I do think, but I do think that sort of where we stand right now is some states have taken action on sports.
00:25:50.020And then the next step, the thing that's coming up behind it is the locker rooms and the bathrooms.
00:25:57.480And ultimately, what we need is we need people that are, we need to elect leaders in our country who are committed to this and who, you know, like I don't want to, you know, beat a dead horse, but we need people that are fearless fighters like our attorney general, Ken Paxton.
00:26:16.260We need him in a policymaking position like the United States Senate where, you know, he can push this and we need people like that who are not going to stop when they get a good headline.
00:26:27.740Well, and speaking of, you are now running for county court at law number two, I believe, in Kauffman County.
00:26:35.300And so can you tell us about this and what we can do to support you?
00:26:40.140Yeah, so I'm running for county court at law here in Kauffman County.
00:26:45.380And what the county court at law is, it's a general jurisdiction court in here in Kauffman County.
00:26:52.840And so we, it'll hear civil, criminal, family cases.
00:26:58.600And, you know, it can, it can hear the full gamut.
00:27:01.880It's kind of interesting running for judge because you can't really take policy positions.
00:27:06.700Now, what you can do is point back and you can say, look at what I have done.
00:27:11.380And so that's what, that's what I have been doing.
00:27:14.180You know, I, at the attorney general's office, I've worked on cases to secure our border.
00:27:19.520I wrote an amicus brief before I got to the attorney general's office in support of a law to keep pornography out of the hands of children.
00:27:29.160And I've been working on these cases to stop the gender mutilation of kids.
00:27:33.560And on top of that, we've got the women's sports issue.
00:27:37.560So I'm grateful to have people like you who have, who have, who have, you know, again, boldly stood up and, and endorsed me.
00:27:46.020And the, anybody who wants to help, they can donate.