Gaines for Girls with Riley Gaines - June 25, 2025


The Importance of Women's Sports


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Length

31 minutes

Words per Minute

182.98293

Word Count

5,808

Sentence Count

398

Misogynist Sentences

22

Hate Speech Sentences

15


Summary

In this episode, we talk to the lead sponsor of LB89, the "Stand With Women Act" in Nebraska, Gov. Lori Pillen. She talks about her role as the bill s sponsor, and why she thinks it's a good idea to protect girls in sports.


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00:01:50.200 I just recently joined Governor Pillen of Nebraska
00:01:53.460 for a ceremonial bill signing of his Stand With Women Act.
00:01:58.160 Today, we are talking to the lead sponsor of that bill, LB89.
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00:03:16.220 As I said, we are talking to the lead sponsor of LB89, the Stand With Women Act.
00:03:22.560 It was no easy feat getting this done in the state of Nebraska, which might come as a shock.
00:03:26.680 Many of you, like I did, believe Nebraska to be a fairly red state.
00:03:33.500 You wouldn't have to worry about things like this, which to provide a little context to
00:03:38.200 what this bill does, it literally just protects girls' sports.
00:03:42.300 It keeps men and boys out of girls' and women's sports.
00:03:46.300 Nebraska is now the 28th state to have done this.
00:03:49.400 But again, you would kind of be surprised Nebraska hasn't already.
00:03:53.280 Understand, they have a pretty rich history in civil rights,
00:03:57.500 going all the way back to the Native Americans, to Indians.
00:04:02.300 Governor Pillen actually told me this incredible story of Chief Standing Bear.
00:04:08.040 It was a court setting.
00:04:09.880 They were having some different legal proceedings.
00:04:13.440 Basically, the government was trying to argue that Indians were not citizens and not entitled
00:04:18.400 to sue in courts.
00:04:20.460 But the judge, in a totally unregulated fashion, this was not standard, this was not approved
00:04:27.340 by any means, he allowed Chief Standing Bear to deliver some remarks.
00:04:32.820 Chief Standing Bear, again, it's the visual you're picturing in your head, the feather cap,
00:04:40.440 wearing the Indian clothing.
00:04:42.900 He stands up and he says,
00:04:44.020 The hand is not the color of yours, but if I prick it, the blood will flow, and I shall
00:04:49.440 feel pain just as you would.
00:04:50.880 The blood is of the same color as yours.
00:04:52.740 God made me and I am a man.
00:04:54.120 I never committed any crime.
00:04:56.140 If I had, I would not stand here to make a defense.
00:04:58.200 I would suffer the punishment and make no complaint.
00:05:01.520 He goes on to say, I am a man.
00:05:05.200 You are men and I am a man.
00:05:06.820 And I think it's pretty remarkable because in this bill that Governor Pillen signed into
00:05:11.100 law that Senator Kowth has been advocating for now for three legislative sessions, it does
00:05:18.200 just that.
00:05:19.200 It defines the word man in state statute.
00:05:22.220 It defines the word woman, male, female, girl, boy, mother, father, words that we never
00:05:28.320 knew we would have to define, words that we imagined were long understood.
00:05:35.720 I mean, again, it goes back all the way to Chief Standing Bear.
00:05:38.160 He understood them and the judge following this understood them.
00:05:42.560 But unfortunately, we live in this time where things have become so conflated, so confused,
00:05:48.720 meaning something other than they were truly intended to mean.
00:05:52.360 But in the state of Nebraska, their state laws now know what a man is and what a woman
00:05:59.140 is.
00:06:00.100 We're talking to Senator Kowth today.
00:06:02.200 Check out this episode here.
00:06:03.940 Well, Senator Kowth, thank you so much for joining the Gains for Girls podcast.
00:06:08.320 Just had an opportunity to spend some time with you a little earlier this past month.
00:06:13.260 What you've been able to do, what you have been working on for several legislative sessions
00:06:18.520 now is crucial, but it has halfway been done.
00:06:21.800 We'll get to that.
00:06:22.840 And just really grateful for you and grateful for you joining this show.
00:06:27.120 The Stand With Women Act, LB89, that's what just passed.
00:06:31.100 Can you tell us a little bit about what this bill does?
00:06:34.340 The Stand With Women basically said men are men, women are women.
00:06:39.820 We now have that definition in statute, which is critically important.
00:06:43.260 It's important to make sure that everyone knows exactly what it is we're talking about.
00:06:47.200 Because you'll see with the left, they try to muddle things up.
00:06:49.680 They use their own made-up words.
00:06:51.760 And I do encourage anybody when they hear the term transgender, please change it to a man
00:06:57.680 who believes he's a woman or a woman who believes she's a man.
00:07:01.060 Don't get sucked into using the language because then it gets very, very confusing for everyone.
00:07:06.080 But this bill said basically boys do not compete on girls' sports teams.
00:07:10.100 They do not have access to their lockers and bathrooms.
00:07:12.740 We also had it expanded to state agencies to protect our prisons, to protect our domestic
00:07:17.060 violence.
00:07:18.180 It was, and you said, you know, halfway there, we had to remove part of the bill.
00:07:23.740 We had to remove the bathrooms and locker rooms and the state agencies because one of our
00:07:27.380 senators balked at the last minute.
00:07:29.720 And I mean, like, at the literal last minute, we were on the floor in the debate.
00:07:33.660 So we got just the athletics, but now K through post-secondary, boys will not be competing on
00:07:40.920 girls' sports teams.
00:07:42.560 Yeah, that's fantastic.
00:07:44.460 And to your point about the language portion, I've been saying this since the beginning.
00:07:48.780 It is so critical to use language.
00:07:51.700 And that's what's so important about this bill.
00:07:54.400 It's, it's, half of it is merely a definitional bill.
00:07:57.580 It's defining words like man, woman, girl, boy, mother, father, the list goes on, words
00:08:02.280 you never even, I mean, would have imagined we would have to define, certainly not in a
00:08:06.400 legislative setting, but here we are.
00:08:09.260 I've been saying it from the beginning, even using phrases like biological woman, it just
00:08:15.500 is demeaning to what it really means to be a woman.
00:08:18.840 Uh, and certainly people are desperate for clarity.
00:08:21.860 So I could not agree with you more there.
00:08:24.480 Biological woman.
00:08:25.660 I mean, it's, when you use the word woman, it means very specific.
00:08:29.700 Exactly.
00:08:30.540 Yeah.
00:08:30.740 We have a sitting Supreme court justice who can't even define this word.
00:08:34.860 Um, I, I like to say that Katanji Brown Jackson is actually just the third person of color.
00:08:39.580 She's nothing special because if she can't identify herself as something special and unique
00:08:44.400 and the first black woman sitting on the Supreme court, then no one else should either.
00:08:48.840 That's it.
00:08:49.240 That's right.
00:08:50.220 You mentioned you had some, some trouble getting this bill over the line, uh, even at the last
00:08:55.720 minute here, what kind of dynamic were you witnessing?
00:09:00.580 And was this something that fell on party lines when it came down to it?
00:09:04.980 So yeah, very much party lines.
00:09:06.680 Um, this is my third year in the legislature.
00:09:09.980 So year one, I introduced both a sports and spaces bill that only addressed K through 12.
00:09:15.300 I thought, well, that's a reasonable step.
00:09:16.920 We'll protect kids who cannot leave their schools.
00:09:19.800 They can't, they don't have the choice of going to a different college.
00:09:21.780 We'll protect them first.
00:09:22.860 And I also introduced a bill called let them grow, which said under the age of 19, you
00:09:27.360 do not do surgeries on kids to change the appearance of their sex, um, or put them on
00:09:32.620 drugs.
00:09:32.980 And so I was able to get that one passed.
00:09:35.240 We tightened up the drugs and got surgeries banned.
00:09:37.920 But I think my, my conservatives in the legislature really had a hard time grasping that this
00:09:45.460 happens, that this is an issue, that there are boys who want to compete on girls teams
00:09:50.240 and want to be in the locker rooms and bathrooms.
00:09:52.000 So there's a lot of, of just kind of passive resistance to it and they were exhausted.
00:09:56.420 So it didn't get past that year or the next year, the, the, um, sports and spaces bill.
00:10:01.820 So this year, when I introduce it, I, I tell people if, if I don't get what's reasonable,
00:10:07.760 when I introduce something reasonable, I'm going to come back with much, much more.
00:10:11.660 Um, I, I think that they'll start to get the hang of it.
00:10:15.740 Once I keep bringing things back and have expanded them.
00:10:18.920 So this year it was all athletics and all, uh, state agencies, again, to make sure our
00:10:24.460 prisons, our department of health and human services, we're treating men as men and women
00:10:28.880 as women, uh, as well as all of our, uh, education.
00:10:32.520 Uh, so it was very difficult.
00:10:34.700 We, we had one Senator and it was very much party line.
00:10:38.420 So in Nebraska, we have to have 33 votes to get anything passed because we have 49, uh,
00:10:44.320 people in our body.
00:10:45.320 We're a unicameral, which is very different.
00:10:47.140 We don't have a second house that we go to.
00:10:49.540 So we had, um, 33 Republicans, but one of them balked and he has balked before.
00:10:55.440 And he decided very much at the last minute that he didn't think that bathrooms and locker
00:11:00.880 rooms were a problem.
00:11:02.640 He said, we shouldn't be the potty police and, you know, kind of demeaned it.
00:11:07.000 Meanwhile, one of our Democrats, and I want to stress, no Democrat has ever supported any
00:11:13.340 of these bills.
00:11:14.180 They always vote against them every single one, even the ones who have pulled me aside
00:11:18.340 quietly said, look, I agree with you.
00:11:20.320 I don't want boys and girls sports, but I can't say it.
00:11:23.080 And I'll be crucified if I do.
00:11:24.740 So there is, there's a lack of backbone amongst the Democrats.
00:11:28.540 They only do what the party line tells them to do.
00:11:31.100 Um, but we have one of our Democrat senators getting up during the debate saying, and a
00:11:36.680 female center saying, I'm not afraid of a trans woman in a bathroom, but I am afraid
00:11:42.500 of a cis male in the bathroom.
00:11:44.420 I said, so basically a trans woman is a man and what you're calling a cis man is a man said,
00:11:52.160 so you're afraid of men in the bathrooms.
00:11:53.540 You've just made my point.
00:11:55.180 And, you know, they, they can't hear that kind of information.
00:11:59.020 It's so like, it's mind boggling.
00:12:03.500 And I, I, I can't, I have a hard time understanding if they really believe what they're saying.
00:12:11.580 You, you guys in Nebraska have some pretty insufferable Democrats, uh, and, and the different
00:12:17.700 interactions that I've had on social media, uh, the different clips that I've seen from
00:12:22.440 debates on the floor, uh, definitely some pretty insufferable ones in your state.
00:12:28.100 My mom is a therapist and she actually, she lives in California now.
00:12:31.280 So she will watch the legislature and very frequently she will be texting me and saying,
00:12:36.400 diagnosing people like this person has borderline personality disorder disorder with narcissistic
00:12:41.000 tendencies.
00:12:41.660 I'm like, okay, mom, you gotta walk away.
00:12:43.060 It's okay.
00:12:43.640 It's like psychoanalyzing.
00:12:45.300 Yeah.
00:12:45.700 She's like, they are all, they're crazy.
00:12:48.040 Yeah.
00:12:48.320 Crazy is to put it mildly.
00:12:50.360 Um, and to your point about the compromise portion, this is a common theme.
00:12:53.820 It's what we see relatively often.
00:12:55.940 And especially at the state level, you'll have, uh, Republicans or conservatives introduce
00:13:01.080 legislation and, and feel like they need to give something.
00:13:03.880 And understandably, of course, it's a game you have to play.
00:13:06.180 If you're trying to pass legislation, uh, especially when you, you take the wins where
00:13:10.340 you can get them, those incremental wins, uh, are wins nonetheless, but the other side
00:13:16.300 is not willing to compromise most of the time.
00:13:19.160 And it, yeah, no.
00:13:21.660 So that's, um, par for the course.
00:13:24.140 That's what we've seen in several, several different states, even states like Texas, they
00:13:27.840 originally passed their sports bill K through 12 and went back, uh, the next legislative
00:13:32.040 session and ended up passing through college.
00:13:35.100 So it's no easy feat to, to get all of the important things, the critical things in the
00:13:40.820 original piece of legislation.
00:13:42.240 The first time, uh, no easy feat.
00:13:45.260 That's why it is important actually to start off really big.
00:13:48.860 And as I'm learning that as I go again, I thought, well, I'll be reasonable and do it
00:13:52.560 step-by-step start off really big understanding that it's going to be cut down and sometimes
00:13:57.860 by your own side, because again, a lot of people have a very hard time grasping this
00:14:03.680 because it is so foreign to people who think common sense is just, you know, boys going
00:14:08.780 to boys locker rooms, girls going to girls locker rooms.
00:14:11.500 So starting off really big means you have some flexibility, like in the back of my head,
00:14:15.400 I always know what are the things that I can live without in this bill.
00:14:18.140 And, um, you know, that's, that's a game that we have to play.
00:14:22.560 Yeah, absolutely.
00:14:23.720 And one more thing you mentioned, how, uh, you have people on both sides of the aisle
00:14:28.160 who said, look, this is, this is a solution in search of a problem.
00:14:31.540 It's not really happening here in the state of Nebraska.
00:14:33.560 We only have three trans athletes in the entire state, which again, number one, uh, it's
00:14:38.640 incredibly underreported.
00:14:40.040 That's not true.
00:14:40.740 And number two is one girl, not enough.
00:14:42.980 And, uh, you had a, a conservative or at least a Senator with an R by his name who, who kind
00:14:49.980 of balked here, but you have a constituent who has had a problem with this.
00:14:54.680 And of course I would not ask you to name her, but can you kind of describe this scenario
00:14:58.040 that one of your constituents has been facing?
00:15:00.940 I've actually had a lot of my constituents, uh, going door to door.
00:15:04.180 People said, look, this, that we hear this happening.
00:15:06.120 I've had teachers say, yep, this is happening.
00:15:08.160 We can't talk about it.
00:15:09.140 And we're just hoping to pass this kid out to the next level, um, in the, the hearing
00:15:14.120 people came out of the woodwork saying you wouldn't believe how many elementary and middle
00:15:18.600 school kids there are who are trans.
00:15:20.240 So you've just got to deal with it and be prepared for it, which to me, 0.03% of people
00:15:25.740 are actually, uh, the, the actual definition of transgender.
00:15:31.280 And so for that many people to have gender dysphoria, it means this is a social contagion and
00:15:35.380 a serious, serious problem.
00:15:36.880 Um, the young woman who I get reached out to by people from districts all over the place.
00:15:42.160 And the young woman whose parents reached out to me is from Lincoln Southeast.
00:15:46.180 And that is, uh, it's outside my district.
00:15:48.400 It's in a different Senator's district, but they have two boys who go into the locker rooms
00:15:53.500 and watch the girls.
00:15:54.560 And they say they're, they're girls sometimes.
00:15:58.260 And, you know, they kind of switch it up again.
00:15:59.940 It's this, this whole fluidity thing that you can never pin down when somebody is or is not
00:16:05.900 a male or female.
00:16:06.800 So that gives a lot of flexibility to people to do whatever they want.
00:16:10.580 And of course we will see people with malintentions taking advantage of it.
00:16:16.460 And I got to meet this, uh, young girl at the bill signing, uh, and the words that both
00:16:26.120 she and her parents spoke to me is, is horrific.
00:16:29.420 I don't, I think people downplay the trauma and I don't use that word lightly, the trauma
00:16:35.560 of young girls.
00:16:36.560 Think about it.
00:16:37.200 Think of how uncomfortable you are in your body as a 13, 14, 15 year old girl in general,
00:16:43.660 like, like take out the fact of man is watching you undress, how uncomfortable that puberty
00:16:48.340 period is in general.
00:16:50.400 And then to insert a man into that locker room.
00:16:53.580 Uh, so to listen to them, it broke my heart, but I saw how grateful they were for, for people
00:16:58.700 like you, for people, people like governor pillin.
00:17:01.960 Um, if anyone has watched women's collegiate sports, uh, they know how much, uh, women's
00:17:10.360 sports mean to the state of Nebraska, but can you touch on this?
00:17:13.220 I think, especially the volleyball program, it was one of the most amazing things ever.
00:17:18.240 Uh, just, I think almost two years ago, I think this was in 2023 where the, the women's,
00:17:24.600 um, volleyball team, university of Nebraska broke the all time.
00:17:29.900 Um, I think the world record of how many in attendance to watch a women's sporting game
00:17:36.820 or match.
00:17:37.400 And it was the most amazing thing to be able to see.
00:17:39.680 So can you just touch about on how much women's sports mean to the state of Nebraska?
00:17:44.940 Tremendous amounts.
00:17:45.760 And that's why, again, this is so very important because we fight for our women's sports.
00:17:50.800 We have done amazing things with it.
00:17:52.560 And if we start allowing men to play women's sports that are not women's sports, it's not
00:17:56.700 the same thing.
00:17:57.420 Um, so in 2023, and this was actually right after I got the, let them grow bill past, um,
00:18:04.420 still trying to work on sports and spaces, but it really got a lot of people like, okay,
00:18:09.420 the power of these women down there and understanding as powerful as they are, a guy could still absolutely
00:18:16.160 demolish them.
00:18:17.700 So our, our volleyball team, um, our athletic director did this amazing thing where they
00:18:22.660 took our football field, which Nebraska football is a huge deal, huge deal, but they
00:18:27.200 covered the football field with a volleyball court and they packed people in.
00:18:32.160 And I think our stadium, um, size is like 86,000, but we had, they had people down on the
00:18:38.980 field around the court, 92,003 people was the official total.
00:18:44.540 It was amazing.
00:18:46.380 People were going nuts.
00:18:47.660 We were watching the games.
00:18:48.800 It was, it was an absolutely fantastic display of women's athletics and it made worldwide
00:18:55.840 attention.
00:18:57.320 I actually, they, they did this cool thing where they took the court and they cut it up
00:19:00.820 into pieces and they sold those.
00:19:02.940 They registered all the pieces and they sold them.
00:19:04.900 And so I actually have a piece of the volleyball court and Rebecca Alec, who is one of the
00:19:09.080 stars of that team has been a tremendous support and help for my bills.
00:19:13.480 And so I was able to show her, Hey, I've got a piece of the floor you once stood on.
00:19:18.080 It's, um, you mentioned Rebecca and Jordy.
00:19:21.540 I had met Jordy prior to, to the most recent bill signing, but I hadn't met Becca before.
00:19:26.640 Um, but of course I have admired those two girls for so long.
00:19:31.260 Jordy ball is a part of, of course, the university of Nebraska women's softball team.
00:19:34.580 Again, Becca is a part of their, their volleyball team.
00:19:37.320 Uh, both of those teams are incredible on a national stage.
00:19:41.580 Um, both of those athletes are personally incredible on a national stage.
00:19:46.420 Um, but there was a, a commercial they did.
00:19:49.660 Um, maybe I think it was maybe last year and it was one of the most beautiful displays I
00:19:54.920 had ever and heroic and brave.
00:19:57.040 It is so hard to put yourself out there, especially on an issue that is deemed controversial.
00:20:03.200 The issue of, of, um, being pro-life it's deemed controversial.
00:20:07.620 It is the most critical issues of all, in my opinion, because if, I mean, that is the most
00:20:11.940 vulnerable that we are talking about, but they so bravely and so publicly put their name
00:20:16.760 to it.
00:20:17.180 I mean, how cool was it for them to be a part of that from your perspective as a Senator?
00:20:21.980 Absolutely amazing.
00:20:22.700 First of all, um, it came together very seamlessly.
00:20:25.580 I mean, it was very much a God thing.
00:20:26.920 Somebody had an idea, Nebraska family alliance, somebody had a contact and they called and
00:20:31.580 these amazing young women said yes.
00:20:34.380 Um, and they did get hit hard and really, really hard.
00:20:38.220 I know Jordy and Rebecca were like, no big deal.
00:20:41.920 It really impacted some of the other girls very, very seriously because the things that
00:20:46.860 were being said to them and about them.
00:20:48.960 And for them, it was just, this is what I believe and I'm willing to stand up and talk
00:20:53.720 about it and to not have that same respect as far as what people were saying to them was,
00:20:58.680 was really, um, shocking to them.
00:21:01.640 And, uh, it's, it's disappointing that people would attack young women for stating their beliefs.
00:21:07.700 Yeah.
00:21:08.180 Yeah.
00:21:08.600 And they do it with such venom.
00:21:10.580 Yeah.
00:21:10.740 Really?
00:21:11.320 Yeah.
00:21:11.960 Uh, as I said, uh, got to see both of these girls at the signing.
00:21:16.760 We have a clip of Jordy here.
00:21:18.600 We're going to play it really briefly.
00:21:20.340 First, I guess I just want to say, thank you.
00:21:23.280 Um, I've never been more proud to be a Nebraskan.
00:21:27.160 And when I did go to Oklahoma, but then transferred back home, all I could think about was how amazing
00:21:32.380 it was going to be to get to wear the Nebraska Jersey and wear that home state proud on my chest.
00:21:37.600 Um, but I never could have imagined how much more pride I would feel in getting to be a part
00:21:44.780 of what ultimately is so much more important than playing softball.
00:21:49.580 Um, and I just want to also say that in standing up for this, like it was never out of my own
00:21:54.180 personal interests.
00:21:55.340 I, I have one year left of playing.
00:21:57.300 I was always thinking about the younger athletes, the athletes who haven't even started their careers
00:22:01.500 yet.
00:22:02.060 And it's not political.
00:22:03.360 It's right and wrong.
00:22:04.320 It's, um, it's so powerful to hear her say those things again.
00:22:08.600 She's someone I've admired far before I ever knew her politics.
00:22:13.320 I ever knew where she stood on issues like this, uh, just for her athleticism, her success
00:22:18.580 on the field.
00:22:19.800 Uh, I watched her at Oklahoma.
00:22:21.400 I've watched her at Nebraska.
00:22:22.380 I watched how, uh, she leads with Christ first.
00:22:26.800 I mean, what did it mean to have her at this signing and all of her support for you that
00:22:31.000 she's shown?
00:22:31.860 You know, it's, it's fantastic.
00:22:33.320 First of all, both she and Rebecca have huge platforms.
00:22:37.060 And like you, when you have a platform like that, there is a certain weight of responsibility
00:22:41.700 where the words that you say, and I think Simone Biles is probably finding this out, have an
00:22:47.000 impact that goes far beyond what that, that momentary thought you're having is.
00:22:51.800 So for them to think very clearly and deeply about what they're choosing to support, it
00:22:56.640 means the world to me because that helped a lot to get this done.
00:23:01.120 Yeah, absolutely.
00:23:01.800 So bathrooms, uh, prisons, the, the certain pieces that got pushed out this time, is that
00:23:09.340 something that's a priority for you next session?
00:23:12.400 Of course.
00:23:12.980 And I keep telling people, again, we could have been done, but now we're not.
00:23:16.880 So I will be bringing the bathrooms and locker rooms back.
00:23:19.100 I'm also looking at a detransitioner bill of rights.
00:23:22.240 Um, I am asking our department of health and human services to reevaluate the rules and
00:23:27.620 regulations that we put on the puberty blockers and the cross-sex hormones.
00:23:31.000 Based on the, um, federal health and human services report that came out that mirrors
00:23:35.860 the cast report about how very damaging these are.
00:23:38.700 And I want to tighten those up.
00:23:40.080 Uh, and then I'm considering doing a study next summer to see, you know, is this child
00:23:46.880 abuse?
00:23:47.240 I think it is.
00:23:48.040 I think when parents or doctors or whoever is pushing young kids to get into this mindset
00:23:53.980 and to deny them the reality of sex, I think there's a, especially after all of the
00:24:00.980 people who came and testified about their kids who I had one woman come and say, well,
00:24:06.760 I have a son and a daughter.
00:24:08.520 And when they were, I think she said eight and nine, they realized that they were each
00:24:12.280 the opposite sex.
00:24:13.200 So I got them on drugs and now I have a daughter and a son.
00:24:16.740 I don't understand that.
00:24:18.680 And it's not, it's not possible.
00:24:20.640 And so I want to really do some deep dives into is this child abuse and how are we harming
00:24:27.100 our kids?
00:24:28.540 Yeah.
00:24:28.900 Hearing you say that about the detransitioner bill of rights, I believe there's a hospital
00:24:34.580 in Nebraska that has been mentioned on a lawsuit.
00:24:38.640 You betcha.
00:24:39.060 So Luca Hein, um, is from this area.
00:24:42.060 And when she was 15, she went through a very, very difficult time, um, was seeking day treatment
00:24:48.280 services.
00:24:48.900 Her parents were going through a horrendous divorce, really a lot of difficulty.
00:24:52.980 And she searching for something said, maybe I'm, maybe I'm a boy.
00:24:58.040 And they seized on it.
00:24:59.500 She met with a therapist whose spouse is a trans.
00:25:05.200 I don't remember which way, um, but very much not an unbiased person, uh, who pushed
00:25:12.260 her and said, you know what?
00:25:13.120 You must be a boy that would solve all your problems.
00:25:15.660 Met with UNMC.
00:25:17.600 And, um, by the time she was 16, she had her breast removed and was put on testosterone.
00:25:23.340 And when I met her, she was 20 about to turn 21.
00:25:27.040 She had stopped the testosterone because of the excruciating pain she was in because of
00:25:32.100 the drugs.
00:25:32.760 And she realized that wasn't ever the problem.
00:25:36.440 They never treated her for depression, for anxiety, um, didn't acknowledge the fact that
00:25:41.600 she was going through, you know, a terrible family struggle.
00:25:44.060 They just pushed her into surgical and medical interventions.
00:25:47.980 She came and testified for my, let them grow bill.
00:25:50.420 The doctor who was in charge of her care was there in her little white coat.
00:25:55.480 You know, they wear the white coats when they come testify, they wear the white coats when
00:25:59.300 they go out to the grocery store.
00:26:00.420 But to come and testify, they want to remind you that they are a doctor and they must know
00:26:05.320 everything.
00:26:05.880 And you must know nothing.
00:26:06.980 You are not a doctor.
00:26:09.040 Um, and Luca was incredibly brave.
00:26:11.460 She had a brief panic attack because this is someone who harmed her very, very badly.
00:26:16.180 Um, she got up and she testified and Luca has been responsible for many, many states passing
00:26:22.400 these laws to protect children.
00:26:24.920 Think of all the things you cannot do at 16 years old.
00:26:28.540 I mean, you can, you can hardly drive a car.
00:26:31.040 You can't buy cigarettes.
00:26:32.120 Of course you can drink alcohol.
00:26:33.500 You can't go to a casino.
00:26:34.640 No, you can't rent a car, but you can, yeah, but you can consent to removing your breast.
00:26:40.740 Yeah.
00:26:40.960 Your parents cannot say, yes, you may get a tattoo on your face in the state of Nebraska
00:26:45.380 because it's permanent and the parents don't have to live with it.
00:26:48.540 And so they can't make that choice because a kid still doesn't understand.
00:26:51.720 But yet a parent can say, yes, cut off my child's genitalia, put them on all three drugs that
00:26:58.100 we have no idea what the outcome is going to be.
00:27:01.760 There are no studies showing any sort of safety, any sort of progress.
00:27:07.120 In fact, there was a study done.
00:27:09.640 Oh, I can't remember when it started.
00:27:11.180 The results were out in 2019, but the doctor here who ran the study and through NIH funded
00:27:17.500 it, she refused to publish the results because they were not in her favor.
00:27:21.720 And she didn't want the opposition to get ahold of it.
00:27:24.740 So basically the study proved that this does not improve any child's mental well-being by
00:27:31.820 putting them through this.
00:27:32.680 So it's, it is a deep, deep and ugly, uh, morass of medical malpractice.
00:27:39.240 Well, God bless you for taking it on, being willing to take it on.
00:27:43.920 Well, it's not easy.
00:27:45.740 Um, it is easy actually to be, to be clear.
00:27:49.400 It's easy to do the right thing, uh, to, especially when you know you're on the right
00:27:54.100 side of history, but the onslaught of negativity and hatred that comes with it, um, it's not
00:28:01.340 what everyone would sign themselves up for.
00:28:03.140 Um, but that's why we're so grateful for you.
00:28:05.920 What are some other legislative priorities, uh, going into the next session?
00:28:10.760 Going into next year, um, I'm looking at a couple of different property tax issues.
00:28:14.360 We have property tax in Nebraska as a problem.
00:28:16.820 So I had a bill this year that we were trying to get out of the committee.
00:28:19.680 We're going to keep working on it over the summer.
00:28:21.880 Um, because it's still in committee, we can make adjustments to it easier.
00:28:25.620 So I'm working with a bunch of senators on that to make sure that we can get something
00:28:29.120 done property tax wise, uh, we always look at school choice issues.
00:28:33.320 That's something that comes up.
00:28:34.480 And I, I was just on a meeting before this one with Congressman Adrian Smith.
00:28:38.820 There is a federal, um, bill to push or to create opportunity scholarships.
00:28:45.660 So scholarships for kids to go to private schools who are not succeeding in public schools.
00:28:50.040 When you look at, uh, in Nebraska, we have a Omaha public school district.
00:28:54.360 Their, their reading is at 22%, their science is at 21% and their math scores, 16% of the
00:29:02.060 kids can do math.
00:29:03.260 That is not in any way, shape or form acceptable.
00:29:05.980 Kids need a way to go to a school that fits them best.
00:29:08.540 So we've been working on that for quite a while.
00:29:11.280 Yeah, that's fantastic.
00:29:12.820 We've seen the benefits of school choice in Tennessee.
00:29:15.820 So, uh, my home state.
00:29:18.220 And no public school has gone bankrupt.
00:29:21.200 They're all still fine.
00:29:22.640 They're there, the, the paranoia and the, um, the screeching from the teachers union is
00:29:28.760 this is going to destroy, destroy public education.
00:29:31.200 If public education is that frail, um, then perhaps it needs to be.
00:29:35.820 And ours here is very, very strong, but we need kids to have a way to go somewhere that
00:29:40.500 fits them best.
00:29:42.160 Absolutely.
00:29:42.840 Well, Senator Kowth, thank you so much.
00:29:45.540 Uh, we look forward to following along, uh, what is to come next.
00:29:49.600 Uh, we will certainly be amplifying and cheering you on every step of the way.
00:29:53.820 Uh, so thank you for being a warrior, defending the right of parents, defending the right of,
00:29:58.500 of, uh, women and defending the safeguarding, maintaining the innocence of children.
00:30:04.480 Thank you so much, Riley.
00:30:06.720 Thank you guys for tuning into the Gains for Girls podcast.
00:30:09.660 I hope you enjoyed this episode.
00:30:11.440 Senator Kowth, as you can tell, uh, she's fiery.
00:30:14.980 She's fierce.
00:30:15.740 She is one of the good ones.
00:30:16.860 So, uh, we will continue to watch what she is doing in the state of Nebraska and how
00:30:20.600 that translates to the rest of the nation.
00:30:23.180 Uh, and I just wanted to, again, personally mention and give a shout out to those two athletes,
00:30:30.500 Jordy ball and Rebecca Alec, uh, part of the university of Nebraska women's softball team,
00:30:35.560 uh, and Becca being a part of the university of Nebraska women's volleyball team.
00:30:39.580 These girls still have, I mean, another year of, of playing time.
00:30:44.720 They're not done.
00:30:45.740 They haven't graduated.
00:30:46.960 Uh, they have a lot to lose yet.
00:30:49.360 They're still willing to do the right thing.
00:30:51.720 Uh, and being able to, to talk with those girls in person, uh, hearing them just declare
00:30:59.300 why this matters so much to them, uh, how they know they're on the right side of history,
00:31:03.660 uh, is really, really special, really, really powerful.
00:31:06.900 So if you're watching this and you've got, uh, young daughters or young sons for that
00:31:11.760 matter, and they need some role models, uh, I would look no further than Jordy ball and
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