Gaines for Girls with Riley Gaines - December 08, 2023


Why I called Rep. Summer Lee a Misogynist


Episode Stats

Length

26 minutes

Words per Minute

157.87466

Word Count

4,140

Sentence Count

277

Misogynist Sentences

22

Hate Speech Sentences

16


Summary


Transcript

00:00:00.540 Okay, only 10 more presents to wrap. You're almost at the finish line, but first...
00:00:10.980 There, the last one. Enjoy a Coca-Cola for a pause that refreshes.
00:00:18.040 Welcome back to the Gains for Girls podcast. We have a special episode this week. We have an extra
00:00:32.860 episode this week, really, because I'm sure you might have seen through social media videos that
00:00:38.640 had gone viral on X or Instagram or whatever that might be surrounding the hearing that was in DC on
00:00:44.460 Capitol Hill surrounding women's sports and protecting women's sports. Really, the purpose
00:00:50.620 of the hearing was to urge the Biden administration and the Democrats in both the U.S. House and the
00:00:56.140 U.S. Senate to not go through with what I would call an illegal and discriminatory rewrite of Title IX
00:01:04.320 that the Biden administration is pushing for now. I'm sure a lot of you have a pretty good
00:01:09.840 understanding of what Title IX does and what it's meant for women. I, of course, benefited from
00:01:15.940 Title IX, myself, along with 3 million other female athletes since its implementation in 1972.
00:01:23.300 So we're headed into the 52nd year. We're about to be headed into the 52nd year since its passage.
00:01:29.800 And I would argue, of course, this has meant a lot for women's sports, but I think the passage of
00:01:36.140 Title IX really opened a door for women as a whole. I would have called a pretty pivotal moment in the
00:01:42.020 feminist movement, which has now turned entirely on its head. But I want to give a brief overview of
00:01:47.800 Title IX, a little bit deeper into what this rewrite means. As said, Title IX, it's, of course, a federal
00:01:54.140 civil rights law that prevents discrimination on the basis of sex. But in April of this year, the Biden
00:02:00.980 administration and the Department of Education proposed changes to Title IX that would now
00:02:07.020 equate sex with gender identity, meaning instead of no discrimination on the basis of sex, it would
00:02:13.220 mean no discrimination on the basis of gender identity. And this would impact schools who receive
00:02:18.040 federal funding. They would have to, if they wanted to continue receiving money from the government,
00:02:24.000 they would have to adhere to these rules, again, to maintain compliance. And under this proposed rule,
00:02:32.980 and I mentioned a lot of this in my testimony yesterday on Capitol Hill, but under the proposed
00:02:38.420 rule, women's sports would not be just for women anymore. They would be for anyone who simply says they
00:02:44.600 are a woman, unless a particular school can demonstrate to the satisfaction of the Department of
00:02:51.780 Education that keeping a particular team female meets important educational objectives. Of course,
00:02:58.220 they don't define important educational objectives or what this really means. But this new rule mandates
00:03:04.640 that every school in the country must demonstrate the unfairness of unfair male participation in each
00:03:10.600 specific women's team that they offer and develop rules to minimize the harm to trans-identified
00:03:15.200 athletes. And so again, in a nutshell, the Biden administration and the Department of Education
00:03:19.820 are allowing men to join onto women's teams at both the high school and collegiate level. And then
00:03:26.120 they're telling us it's our burden as female athletes to prove it's unfair if we inherently think it's
00:03:31.760 unfair. Again, they don't define unfair. It has to meet their satisfaction. So there's no telling
00:03:38.160 what this process really looks like. But again, they're putting that weight on our shoulders as female
00:03:44.320 athletes. This rewrite, of course, as I said, is broader than just women's sports. It would mean
00:03:51.640 that men would have full access to bathrooms, locker rooms, changing spaces. Men could join
00:03:57.740 sororities, which we're already seeing happen. I want to give a shout out to those girls in University
00:04:04.720 of Wyoming, the Kappa Kappa Gamma sorority. They just refiled their lawsuit this week, which is really
00:04:09.440 phenomenal news. And I think it's something we should all follow along with and support those
00:04:14.440 girls because they're being incredibly brave to take that stand. So make sure to follow along there.
00:04:21.700 It would mean that men could be randomly housed in dorm rooms with women. We saw a pretty horrific
00:04:27.080 article this week surrounding, I don't remember the context specifically, but a school, I think it was
00:04:33.840 some sort of camp or something. They allowed a male to not only share a room with a young girl,
00:04:40.680 a male who, of course, claims he was a woman, not only share a room with this young girl,
00:04:46.140 share a bed with this young girl. This new Title IX rewrite, it would mean that as of now,
00:04:53.720 the 23 states that have passed laws to prevent competing in the sex or in the category that does
00:05:00.660 not align with your sex. This new rewrite would make that illegal. So this is by far the most
00:05:07.400 significant action and the biggest threat to women's sport yet. And I'm not a betting person.
00:05:15.460 As I said, this has been going on since April of 2023. I'm not a betting person, but if I were to bet,
00:05:23.880 and I've said this from the beginning, I've said this since April, the Biden administration knows that
00:05:28.700 the public opinion is not in their favor. Of course, they know this. That's been very evident
00:05:33.100 through their actions thus far. When they proposed these new changes and they left it open for public
00:05:40.360 comment. Public comment is supposed to be for 90 days after they received hundreds of thousands of
00:05:46.940 comments surrounding this rewrite that were not in favor of what they were doing. They shut the comment
00:05:53.100 period after only 30 days. They know public opinion is not in their favor. They're going to try and do
00:06:00.520 this discreetly. He has made it abundantly clear that he will have this done by the end of the year.
00:06:05.600 And so I would be watching, I can guarantee you this will happen during, around the holidays.
00:06:11.100 My guess is December 23rd is when the Biden administration will follow through with this,
00:06:16.460 hoping people are distracted and not paying attention. But I certainly will be,
00:06:19.980 and I will keep you guys updated on what this looks like. So that's what's going on. That's why
00:06:26.240 this hearing took place. And let's get into the hearing. I would be remiss if I did not simply just
00:06:34.180 outright say it is unfathomable that a recently graduated 23-year-old college swimmer has to go to
00:06:44.520 DC, sit in front of Congress, the people leading this country, and tell them that men and women are
00:06:51.660 different. And then have to have Congress be confused by this explanation. Of course, I always
00:06:59.800 choose to remain hopeful. But I believe this is proof that America has lost its soul. This was a pretty
00:07:08.440 long hearing. Gosh, it went on for about four hours. And in these four hours, there was a lot of
00:07:14.020 misinformation coming from the Democrats. And we'll get into that. But this, it was under the Oversight
00:07:19.920 and Accountability Committee. This hearing was brought forth by Representative Lisa McClain, who is
00:07:25.560 so feisty and fierce and just really incredible. She's one of those warriors who you certainly want on
00:07:33.380 your team. So she's just amazing. Of course, I was one of the witnesses. There were two other
00:07:40.100 Republican witnesses, one of which being Kim Russell from Oberlin College. She was a coach. I encourage
00:07:45.800 everyone to go listen to their testimonies. I won't get into all that. But she was a coach who was
00:07:50.520 effectively fired, basically, canceled from her university for defending women in sports,
00:07:59.820 saying that men should not be in women's sports. She's had to undergo a lot of really nasty things
00:08:06.300 since then. The other Republican witness was Sarah Perry of the Heritage Foundation. And there was a
00:08:12.380 Democrat witness who was the president who is the president of the National Women's Law Center. And
00:08:17.680 we'll get into why that's ironic. One more thing I want to mention about this hearing before we talk
00:08:23.720 about the specifics. The ranking member of this subcommittee was Katie Porter, Representative Katie
00:08:28.840 Porter, who, if you might remember, this is a member of Congress, a Democrat member of Congress,
00:08:34.820 who has publicly said on national television, that I'm just doing this for clicks and likes,
00:08:41.560 that I'm putting myself through the vitriol of, you know, the death threats and people showing up to
00:08:47.800 my house and drones flying above my house and all the awful things that really I've had to endure.
00:08:53.200 I'm doing this for clicks and likes and for my own personal gain. That's what she said,
00:08:58.480 publicly. I just talked about this on the podcast a few weeks ago with Piers Morgan,
00:09:04.460 because that's who she was on with. I even tried to publicly or privately, excuse me, address her in
00:09:10.100 D.C. last time I saw her, not in front of anyone, because I wanted to give her the opportunity
00:09:14.460 to explain to me where she came to that conclusion. You know, how did she get to that point in her
00:09:21.640 thinking? But she ran for me. So I was very excited to see Representative Porter,
00:09:25.920 but she did not show up to the hearing, which I think is telling. I believe she didn't show up for
00:09:32.680 a reason. I believe she's a coward. But her absence meant that Representative Lee from Pennsylvania was
00:09:40.180 the ranking member. And so I had to sit there. Of course, they go through opening statements.
00:09:47.060 And I sat there and listened. And Representative McClain, Representative Lee's opening statements,
00:09:52.700 the chairwoman, ranking member. And when Representative Lee began her opening monologue,
00:09:59.480 the first thing she says, you know, I can't believe we have to sit here and listen to this
00:10:04.900 transphobic bigotry. And as soon as she said that, I here, let's just let's watch the video.
00:10:11.260 To me that although the title of this hearing implies a much needed discussion, we're likely
00:10:17.000 going to be forced to listen to transphobic bigotry. Unsafe, unfair and discriminatory practices
00:10:22.760 towards women must stop. Inclusion cannot be prioritized over safety and fairness. And ranking
00:10:28.600 member Lee, if my testimony makes me transphobic, then I believe your opening monologue makes you
00:10:33.940 a misogynist. Thank you. I have as the saying goes. Madam Chair, excuse me, I moved to have the
00:10:40.580 gentlewoman's words taken down. Madam Chair, she's engaging in personalities.
00:10:48.620 Can I just ask how it's fair to be called transphobic? There's a thing. I would say men
00:10:55.540 disguising themselves as women are engaging in personalities. Hang on, hang on, hang on.
00:11:00.860 Okay, I moved to withdraw the point of order.
00:11:06.700 I am, of course, that last piece was ad lib. I was not, that was not in my testimony. I was not
00:11:12.920 prepared to say that. But I'll tell you where I kind of came to that conclusion. I'm sitting there
00:11:19.940 listening to her opening monologue. And of course, I know my stance is pro woman. If pro woman is deemed
00:11:27.160 anti-trans, wouldn't pro trans inherently be anti-woman? And what do we call someone who is
00:11:33.580 anti-woman? We call them a misogynist, which is, of course, exactly what I did. And I stand by that.
00:11:39.100 I do believe Representative Lee and all of the Democrat members who actively campaigned against
00:11:46.020 women having fair sport, I believe they are misogynists, showing an utter disdain and prejudice
00:11:51.360 and really contempt hatred for women. That's what a misogynist is. And that's what those people
00:11:57.960 very clearly showed. As you can see also in the video, Representative Lee tried to erase history
00:12:06.520 and the records by moving to take down my words in the act of, I believe her reasoning was personal
00:12:15.020 engagement or personality engagement, whatever she said. Let it be known that her efforts were
00:12:21.680 withdrawn. She did not to get to erase history. And the record still indicates that Representative Lee
00:12:27.060 is in fact a misogynist. They can dish it out, but they can never take it. She could call me names
00:12:33.960 when I call her names, which I don't recommend stooping to the level of someone else ever. But I did find
00:12:42.300 it to be necessary in this situation to call her what she was, which is again, a misogynist.
00:12:48.320 She could call me names. But when I called her names, a name, they were scrambling. They didn't know
00:12:55.980 what to do. I mean, she went into like factory reset mode, had to take a time out. Rules for thee,
00:13:02.400 but not for me. That tends to be how it goes. After my testimony, the other witnesses got to read
00:13:09.880 theirs. Again, I encourage you guys to go listen to those. They're, they're incredibly impactful and
00:13:15.560 insightful. But the Democrat witness, I want to, I want to touch on her testimony very briefly.
00:13:23.020 Again, National Women's Law Center. I'll be waiting when they take that word woman out,
00:13:29.220 because what I saw is they do not represent women. They may represent men who think they are women,
00:13:35.020 but they don't represent women. In her testimony, this witness, Goss Graves is her last name,
00:13:41.660 goes on to say women should just learn how to lose gracefully. And success in school sports depends on
00:13:48.880 a whole range of factors, including how hard you work and coaching and access to really good resources
00:13:55.960 and facilities. And trans students participate in sports for the same reason as their kids,
00:14:03.400 because it is fun, because it creates belonging and community, because it teaches so much about
00:14:09.760 persistence and leadership and, and discipline, unless they learn to lose gracefully, hopefully.
00:14:17.140 I just feel like I should clarify here. I've lost many times in my career. And I would say I'm a
00:14:24.920 pretty graceful loser. My husband might not agree. He won't even play Uno with me or cards with me.
00:14:31.140 Uh, I would say I'm competitive, of course. Uh, but I'm a, I can lose and have no problem. I've done
00:14:37.640 it many times. Um, but let it be known. I did not lose to Thomas, uh, the male we competed against.
00:14:44.520 He did not, he did not beat me. Uh, we tied, uh, which I think is kind of embarrassing on his part
00:14:51.420 that a six foot four man couldn't beat me, uh, but I did not lose to him. So just had to get that out
00:14:57.020 there. And secondly, it's very evident that Mrs. Goss Graves has never played a competitive sport
00:15:03.440 in her life. Uh, of course, I agree the benefits to playing sports, uh, you know, like, uh, I mean,
00:15:10.780 what she mentioned, really, uh, you become a leader, the camaraderie, the teamwork aspect,
00:15:14.960 you know, you develop communication skills, all those different things. Of course,
00:15:18.740 that is, uh, an effect, a side effect of playing sports. Uh, but to say sports is not about winning,
00:15:24.780 uh, you've just never been a competitive athlete. Sorry, Mrs. Goss Graves. It's our jobs
00:15:31.200 as Americans. I want to encourage everyone. And again, I said this on my podcast with Senator
00:15:37.200 Cruz this week, but I've been thinking a lot about it. And actually who I heard it from
00:15:41.180 was Charlie Kirk of Turning Point. Uh, I was listening to him speak a few weeks ago
00:15:46.120 and he's so inspiring. He's so, uh, he works really incredibly hard at what he does.
00:15:54.000 Uh, and I just thought it was really moving because he was talking and he said, you know,
00:15:57.720 I want to encourage everyone these next 11 months to work as hard as you have ever worked.
00:16:04.220 It is our job as Americans. If we want to restore America, restore sanity, it is our job
00:16:10.860 to, to call out hypocrisy when we see it. If we don't, no one will. Uh, people think that
00:16:20.020 these radical Democrats are intimidating. I thought that when I first testified in front
00:16:25.780 of Congress, they're not, they're, uh, quite honestly, uh, pretty stupid. Just being frank
00:16:34.700 here, they're pretty stupid. Uh, again, did you see how hard they scrambled after their own
00:16:39.860 intersectional language was used against them? Um, they have their staffers write everything
00:16:45.580 for them. Don't be intimidated. Uh, and that's of course, not just members of Congress. Uh, I would
00:16:51.300 say that's the radical left as a whole. Uh, they have no basis for their arguments. Don't be afraid
00:16:56.660 to call it out. Um, I'll move on to the typical line of questioning that we saw from the Democrats
00:17:03.040 in this hearing. Pretty much every Democrat use their time to totally deflect from the issue entirely,
00:17:11.020 uh, pointing to abortion or the violence against women act or, or the equal rights amendment or some
00:17:17.480 other piece of legislation that Republicans have, or that I guess historically paint Republicans as
00:17:23.280 woman haters. Um, there was a pretty phenomenal piece done by, uh, Outkick, uh, surrounding kind of
00:17:32.660 the deflection points that the Democrats in this hearing used. Um, it was, it was a pretty good
00:17:38.100 one. Another thing they did was they, uh, constantly said that this, you know, our rhetoric, uh, and what
00:17:45.040 we're advocating for was excluding trans people from sports entirely, which is simply false. Uh, again,
00:17:52.020 I said in my opening testimony, no one should be banned from playing sports regardless of your gender
00:17:57.940 identity or your sexual orientation or your race or what sports you play. There is a place for every
00:18:03.340 single person in this country to play sports. And I encourage every single person in this country to
00:18:08.360 play sports, but we cannot prioritize inclusion over safety and fairness. Uh, that that's, I don't
00:18:15.480 understand how that's controversial. Everyone should play where it's fair and where it's safe. And that's
00:18:20.800 the category that matches your, your sex, uh, that you were of course born with. Another tactic was of
00:18:27.280 course, name calling. We saw that, uh, another thing that was constantly said by AOC and some others,
00:18:32.320 uh, they were saying that supporting sex segregated sports is kin to supporting racism. Uh, you know,
00:18:40.480 we talk about not wanting to restructure society for a minority, for the trans individuals. Well, you,
00:18:45.880 this is exactly what happened during the civil rights movement. Let me tell you how that argument
00:18:49.640 is flawed. Um, during the civil rights movement, uh, African-Americans genuinely didn't have
00:18:56.700 some of the rights that white people had, uh, of course, which now looking back on, we can all
00:19:02.660 agree was an incredibly horrible time in our history. I would say that that's, uh, the general
00:19:09.240 consensus among both parties here. Uh, I think we can agree on that. The difference is now where they
00:19:15.920 continue to spout this, there is not a right that a trans individual does not have. No one is being
00:19:21.760 denied of their rights like they were, uh, in the 1860s onwards, uh, until about, you know, a hundred
00:19:28.820 years later. Uh, so that's a totally silly and disingenuous, uh, line of, of reasoning there.
00:19:36.040 AOC. Oh my gosh. She, um, something she did, which I thought was incredibly funny.
00:19:41.040 Originally allowed for genital examinations on minors in order to quote unquote protect
00:19:50.340 women. Is that correct? Unfortunately, yes. And so we're seeing here in this guise under the guise
00:20:01.620 of not only trying to further marginalize trans women and girls, we are talking about opening up
00:20:09.200 all women and girls to genital examinations when they are under age. That's right.
00:20:19.280 Potentially just because someone can point to someone and say, I don't think you're a girl.
00:20:24.640 That's correct. And we're saying this in an environment of a post Dobbs America where states
00:20:32.340 are criminalizing access to abortion. Again, this is simply misinformation. Uh, no one
00:20:40.440 is advocating for genital inspection that would be, and has been historically incredibly invasive
00:20:47.880 and violating. Uh, maybe what she's referring to is a routine, a routine physical that is done
00:20:53.880 by every athlete, uh, that every athlete has to have. Um, that's again, that's routine. That's,
00:21:00.600 that's standard practice. I had to do it. Uh, when I was competing, you have to go through physicals.
00:21:04.900 Uh, she was specifically referring to, to different States, what some States are doing.
00:21:09.880 Some States are advocating for genital inspection, which again is not true. Uh, what States are doing
00:21:15.480 is they're saying they'll look to a birth certificate or some form of government issued identification.
00:21:22.340 Um, some governing bodies, uh, they're resorting to cheek swabs or chromosome tests, but again,
00:21:28.660 no one has done external genitalia, the inspection of internal external genitalia for gender verification
00:21:35.880 since the 1960s Olympics. Uh, and it was rightfully decided that at this time, this wasn't a satisfactory
00:21:43.800 or acceptable process to determining sex. Um, it's interesting to me that the Democrats consistently
00:21:53.300 actually in this hearing brought up sexual assault and how, uh, which I agree, how we should minimize
00:21:59.020 sexual assault in any way that we can. Um, but listening, they bring this up, but they refuse
00:22:07.080 to listen to the stories. They're not interested in hearing the stories of girls like Paula Scanlon,
00:22:13.320 excuse me, Paula Scanlon, uh, who is a survivor, uh, a victim of sexual assault in the past,
00:22:20.960 who then had to, who was then forced to share a locker room with Thomas. What about Paula and her
00:22:27.820 experience? No, that doesn't matter to AOC or to any of the Democrats, uh, because it, it, it doesn't
00:22:33.520 fit their narrative. Uh, the whole Me Too movement, uh, I believe, and it's, it's showing here was
00:22:40.880 entirely a scam. Um, yeah. So again, this went on for hours, this hearing, uh, I want to show some of
00:22:49.000 Representative McLean's closing statements because like I said previously, she's fierce. Oh, she's
00:22:55.400 firing and she's tiny. She's in, you know, she's like all of like five foot nothing. Uh, but those
00:23:01.460 are sometimes your most mighty packages. Uh, so watch this clip of her closing statements.
00:23:06.320 We lost our minds. I sat here and listened to every, every label imaginable. I, I am here to
00:23:15.620 protect women, girls. My God, why do I have to apologize for that? We spent decades trying to
00:23:26.080 protect women. And you know what? We won. We won. So I will not apologize now or ever for trying to
00:23:35.980 protect my daughters and women in sports. And that's what this hearing was about protecting
00:23:42.940 women. So, you know what? I am a woman and let me tell you, hear me roar because I will not stop
00:23:49.860 protecting women. You want to know why? Because we have rights to women have rights to. I love what
00:24:00.780 she said. Uh, I am woman, hear me roar. Uh, that is woman's empowerment again, to use their language
00:24:10.160 against them. Uh, we need more like Representative McLean. Uh, and of course, some of the other
00:24:16.860 co-sponsors sponsors, uh, on the house side and in the Senate side who have taken up the save women's
00:24:22.420 sports act, the protection of women and girls in sports act. Uh, because those are the people who are
00:24:27.840 telling us that we as female athletes, as women in general, uh, that we're worthy, that we matter,
00:24:34.460 that we're capable of incredible things within our own physical ceilings. And we shouldn't have
00:24:39.200 to compare ourselves physically or in any other way to a male. Um, again, I appreciate you guys
00:24:47.340 listening, uh, and, and really for all the support, uh, after the hearing, I've had so many people reach
00:24:53.260 out and just say some really kind things, uh, telling me, you know, uh, I, I'm a warrior for
00:25:00.460 women's rights that, you know, people reaching out saying, you know, I have a five-year-old daughter,
00:25:04.700 uh, thank you for fighting for her. You're exactly right. Because that is, that is who I'm fighting
00:25:09.320 for. That is what this is about. Um, so again, I'll keep everyone updated on what the next step in
00:25:16.860 this process is, what the Biden administration is going to do. Uh, keep your, keep your ears tuned,
00:25:24.220 uh, and your eyes following this because they're certainly going to try and push it discreetly.
00:25:30.540 Uh, anyways, appreciate you guys. Thank you for joining this special and extra episode this week
00:25:36.520 of the Gains for Girls podcast. Uh, you can like and subscribe anywhere where you get your podcasts,
00:25:42.280 uh, outkick.com, Spotify, Apple. Um, again, I want to, to push another urge for everyone to go and buy,
00:25:49.400 uh, Senator Cruz's book, uh, Unwoke. You can get it in Amazon or Barnes and Noble. Um, it's incredibly
00:25:58.240 eyeopening, I think is a good word for it and really phenomenal. Each chapter follows, um, a different
00:26:05.080 delegation of really this cultural Marxism that we're seeing. Uh, so again, thank you guys very much.
00:26:12.040 And I will see you next week.