Riley Gaines joins the show to talk about the fight for women's sports and why we must continue to fight for equal pay for women in the sports arena. President Trump signed an executive order in February barring all men from participating in any educational program that receives federal funding. Since then, other states have refused to comply, and now the DOJ is suing the state of Maine.
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00:01:42.000I'm frustrated that we have to be here, that we as women have to stand before you all on national television demanding equal opportunities, demanding privacy in areas of undressing, demanding safety in our sports.
00:01:57.000Amazing to me that we are still here fighting this fight.
00:02:14.000It's a sad state of affairs that we have to continue to fight on this.
00:02:18.000I thought smart Democrats like Gavin Newsom were saying that we have to basically give up on this issue.
00:02:23.000That was from a press conference you had at the Department of Justice this morning with Pam Bondi.
00:02:28.000Catch our audience up to speed at exactly what that press conference was about.
00:02:33.000Absolutely. Well, always a joy to be on with you, Charlie.
00:02:35.000Look, of course, President Donald Trump signed an executive order back in February barring all men from participating in women's sports within any educational program that receives federal funding.
00:02:46.000But what we have seen following this is some states have issued notices that they're unwilling to comply.
00:02:53.000I mean, these are the typical characters, right?
00:03:00.000But there was this encounter between Governor Mills and Donald Trump.
00:03:04.000At the White House where she, in this, I think what she thought was this mic drop moment, pushed back on this and said, look, we'll see you in court.
00:03:13.000And she has certainly gotten her wish because now, after many efforts to make Maine comply, which again they just were unwilling to do, the Department of Justice is now pursuing litigation and is suing the state of Maine and removing federal
00:03:31.000Again, putting all of your constituents, the entire state of Maine, at jeopardy here because you want men to that badly participate in women's sports.
00:03:59.000Doubling, tripling, quadrupling down on this.
00:04:03.000If you would have asked me on November 5th if this was the route the Democratic Party would be going, I would tell you absolutely not.
00:04:09.000I mean, this wasn't an issue, if you can remember, that Kamala Harris wanted to campaign on.
00:04:13.000I mean, she didn't touch the trans issue virtually at all when she was campaigning.
00:04:17.000So that was a good indication to me that the Democratic Party as a whole was going to slowly recant from their positions, distance themselves from their voting records.
00:04:26.000But again, that's just not at all what they've done, which...
00:04:29.000We know how the majority of American people feel.
00:05:09.000Additionally, I would even have some of these trans zealots, and it really is an issue where they are blinded with zealotry, saying, Charlie, there's nothing wrong with sharing a locker room with a trans woman.
00:05:21.000Again, can you just remind the audience the graphic nature of what occurs here, the violation of private spaces?
00:05:29.000I hope everyone in the audience can understand and grasp that with this trans movement, your daughters have to undress next to naked men.
00:05:37.000It's happening at Deerfield High School.
00:05:41.000It's happening all across the country.
00:05:42.000We just recently had a mom from Deerfield, Illinois, where her daughter...
00:05:47.000I'm sure you're aware of this story, Riley, had to undress next to a biological man naked while he touched himself in his genitalia, pleasing himself.
00:05:56.000She decided to say, I'm not comfortable to do that, and the administration forced them to under penalty and punishment, and nothing has actually changed.
00:06:25.000It's happening, Charlie, all over the country.
00:06:27.000Like you said, there was a girl who spoke at the press conference with Pam Bondi today from the state of Maine who said at the age of 13 years old, that's where she first encountered this issue, and it was in the locker room.
00:06:37.000A boy undressing next to her at 13 years old.
00:06:42.000I mean, I can personally testify to the feelings of just...
00:06:47.000Utter violation, the feelings of betrayal, again, when you're in this intimate area of undressing, which locker rooms in general aren't necessarily a comfortable space, but I'll say growing up a swimmer, you almost become comfortable being vulnerable in that environment.
00:07:02.000That vulnerability is stripped from you.
00:07:05.000When you turn around and you see a 6'4", 22-year-old man fully naked, fully intact, fully exposing himself inches away from where you were simultaneously unclothed.
00:07:18.000I can tell you how my dad felt about this, Charlie.
00:08:18.000I think what people have learned over these past few years, the past five, six years or so, is that there is nothing that will oust you.
00:08:27.000As much as opposing the gender ideology movement has done.
00:08:32.000I mean, look at people like Congressman Seth Moulton, right?
00:08:35.000He initially, prior to the vote on H.R. 28 in the House, the Protection of Women and Girls in Sports Act this year, he said, look, I've got a daughter.
00:08:42.000You know, I don't want a man on the field or on the court with her.
00:08:45.000And then when it came time to vote on this bill, he of course voted on party lines, voted in favor of putting boys in his daughter's sports.
00:08:53.000So I think fear is a big part of it, being called names like transphobe, homophobic, they'll call you racist, a white supremacist for this stance, things that don't even make sense at all, which again is merely just name-calling.
00:09:04.000That's what we do in like second grade.
00:09:07.000And I think it would force them, if they changed their stance now, it would force them to admit that they knew this was a farce from its inception.
00:09:16.000Again, what's been proven is they're just not willing to do that.
00:09:20.000They have proven that this is a hill they are willing to die on, which doesn't make sense, again, to the majority of American people.
00:10:24.000Now, even the people amongst the Democratic Party who view the party in a positive light is 7%.
00:10:32.0007% of Democrats agree, and I think this is a large part of it, and I think we saw that in the election.
00:10:37.000Of course, I believe people turned out to the polls to embrace Donald Trump, to embrace his cabinet picks, to embrace the America First agenda.
00:10:44.000More so, I believe, that people turned out to the polls to reject absurdity, and that is what the Democratic Party has become across the board, whether it's men and women's sports, whether it's tampons in boys' bathrooms, whether it's referring to Latino individuals as Latinx, it's absurd.
00:12:15.000You better do it because you're not going to get any federal funding at all if you don't.
00:12:18.000And by the way, your population, even though it's somewhat liberal, although I did very well there, your population doesn't want men playing in women's sports.
00:12:27.000What they have done with this, again, I hope we can get rid of this issue.
00:12:31.000But Riley, being at Boise State University, I had...
00:12:35.000Probably 70 female athletes come up to me asking for pictures.
00:12:39.000And under traditional rules, they might have been to the liberal.
00:12:42.000I don't know how they stand on immigration.
00:12:44.000I don't even know how they stand on abortion.
00:12:45.000But they say they've become one-issue voters.
00:12:48.000These Boise State volleyball players, because I think they're part of that whole San Jose State Mountain West Conference thing, right?
00:13:13.000So when you say you're going to comply and you're actively not doing it, again, that federal law in this case being Title IX, which was very clear as it was originally written.
00:13:23.000No one knew, 52, coming up on 53 years later, we would have to define that word sex.
00:13:29.000But unfortunately, what we've seen are both elected and unelected bureaucrats go through the back door and reinterpret this word to mean what they want it to mean.
00:13:37.000But even after this clip, the clip ends here.
00:14:45.000But why should you subsidize this Marxism?
00:14:48.000Fundamentally, talk about the transgender issue more broadly, Riley.
00:14:52.000This all stems from us appeasing a mental delusion, trying to accommodate a psychological condition, which then, of course, invades female privacy, female sports, so on and so forth.
00:15:04.000I mean, as you said, this is the most basic of truths, man and woman.
00:15:09.000It's the sheer essence of humanity, a truth we have never struggled to understand in the nearly 250 years we've been established as a country, and certainly much longer than that.
00:15:18.000Hate to break it to every single person listening to this, you are all here from man and woman, and that is what we're being asked to deny.
00:15:28.000Understand if we as a society will deny that, again, the most basic of truths, then I think the scarier thing here is there are no limits, right?
00:15:37.000We should be asking ourselves what's next if we are willing to deny sex, okay?
00:15:44.000Which I personally believe this is the direction that's going.
00:15:47.000I believe the gender ideology movement as a whole really is an attempt to normalize pedophilia across the board.
00:15:55.000And I think that's what we're seeing with this movement.
00:15:57.000So yeah, and to your point about Boise State and the volleyball girls specifically, they forfeited Charlie against San Jose State University.
00:16:05.000Again, a university that allowed a male.
00:16:07.000Onto their women's volleyball team, taking a scholarship, a roster spot, a travel spot from a hard-working, deserving woman.
00:16:14.000Boise State forfeited in their Mountain West Conference Championship, which is outside of the NCAA Championship, the pinnacle of their sport, they prematurely ended their season.
00:16:23.000Knowing if they forfeited, they would accept a loss.
00:16:47.000That is courage that truthfully I didn't have when I was faced with this issue.
00:16:51.000And granted, of course, I believe everything happens for a reason and for God's sovereign purposes.
00:16:56.000But that courage, it takes a lot to be able to do that, sacrificing everything that they did to compete at the highest level.
00:17:03.000That explains why there were so many there.
00:17:08.000I mean, thank you for connecting those dots.
00:17:09.000I was like, this is an unusual amount of...
00:17:12.000Athletes, and because they're tired of men, pervert men, stealing their trophies, stealing their medals, and coming into their locker room.
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00:17:44.000When I go to these campuses, when I go to Boise State, when I go to Cal State Northridge, when I go to University of South Carolina, when I go to Oklahoma State University, when I go to Purdue, when I go to University of South Florida, University of Florida, Florida State, we go to a lot of campuses, student loan debt is a major question they ask about.
00:17:59.000If you know anybody in your life that has private student loan debt, listen carefully.
00:18:38.000For years, I have been remarking that we are over-prescribing ADHD medication, that Adderall has been given out like Skittles to kids, and that we are giving not just antidepressants, but anti-ADHD drugs to young boys unnecessarily.
00:19:14.000Scientists, doctors give kids ADHD drugs for adults' convenience.
00:19:20.000Everybody, let me listen to you very carefully.
00:19:23.000Maybe you have a case where a kid needs an ADHD drug, but if you have a young boy where a doctor is trying to push it, Yeah, it was remarkable, especially considering the fact that it was the New York Times that came out with this wide-ranging discussion with doctors and educators and parents about how this basically 30-year experiment in drugging little boys into compliance
00:20:28.000As a result of being put on this drug, the resounding answer was no.
00:20:32.000And even more disturbing when they went back and looked at the history.
00:20:35.000They can't even find a single biological, physical marker that somebody has ADHD or doesn't have ADHD.
00:20:43.000And in reality, what was happening is you had, I think, a lot at the urging of schools and parents, you had little boys who had surplus energy being drugged so that they could be compliant in class.
00:20:56.000And let me tell you, being an adult now...
00:20:59.000Having extra energy, man, I'm jealous of kids who have that.
00:21:04.000And yet we told multiple generations of little boys, this thing you have, which is a ton of energy and love for life that we all wish we could have when we're tired and at the end of the day, that's actually a disability.
00:21:16.000There's something wrong with you because you're full of life.
00:21:19.000And it was evil what was done to tens of millions of boys over 30 years.
00:22:21.000Hey, we think there may be this small sliver of kids who have a neurological issue that makes it impossible for them to focus or learn.
00:22:29.000And so they developed this drug at the time that they thought, hey, this might be good for treating this tiny little niche sliver of people and help them.
00:22:37.000And for all I know, maybe that works for a very, very small sliver.
00:22:41.000But what it ended up becoming was a tool of control.
00:22:43.000I think it was largely pushed by schools and teachers, many of whom I think just didn't like.
00:22:50.000They liked compliant girls who could sit still and listen and follow directions.
00:22:56.000And they didn't like that a ton of boys are just not made to sit in a classroom like statues for eight or nine hours a day.
00:23:04.000And this thing that began with good intentions actually became a massive program to drug boys into compliance and to being more like little girls.
00:23:12.000So I don't think it started out insidiously, but it certainly became that way.
00:23:18.000Parents in this were victims, especially maybe single moms.
00:24:18.000So, I think there's also a pharmacological benefit here.
00:24:21.000And I looked up the numbers, just so we're clear.
00:24:23.00015% of young boys are on ADHD medication.
00:24:27.00015%. 15% of our nation's young men that might have the most energy and the most vigor and the most vitality and the most love of life are currently Medicaid.
00:24:41.00015%. Alright, so shifting gears here for a second, Sean.
00:24:44.000You guys have been covering a lot of stories at The Federalist.
00:24:53.000Yes, so Rubio today announced in the pages of The Federalist that the State Department was going to be dismantling what we call the censorship industrial complex.
00:25:02.000And we at The Federalist were directly targeted by this complex.
00:25:06.000And in his op-ed, Rubio admits that and says, hey, the State Department targeted The Federalist for destruction.
00:25:12.000You guys were reporting things that were inconvenient to the government and the regime.
00:25:16.000And so they deliberately and maliciously sought to deprive you of ad revenue, of traffic.
00:25:22.000In the hope of destroying you as a news entity and as a speech entity, and thank goodness for Rubio and Trump for recognizing the threat to a free people that this type of illegal censorship poses.
00:25:36.000We ended up having to go sue the State Department, who we're still suing right now for all this illegal, insidious censorship against us.
00:25:44.000And what is fascinating in this op-ed from Rubio is he admits that even after the congressional authorization For one particular censorship program known as the Global Engagement Center, even after the congressional authorization expired, they changed the name of what they were doing,
00:26:01.000moved the employees into a new area, and let them burrow into the State Department bureaucracy to continue doing everything they were doing.
00:26:09.000So thank goodness we have an administration that actually believes in the First Amendment.
00:26:13.000But trust me, the GEC is not the only entity doing this stuff.
00:26:19.000There is an entire Borg, that's why we call it the censorship industrial complex, that exists to shut down anyone who accurately says things that are against the government
00:26:49.000Warning about misinformation of thinking that COVID might have come from a Wuhan laboratory.
00:26:55.000Are we able to just defund this altogether, or is some judge just going to enjoin this?
00:27:00.000Well, you know, it's actually really complicated and kind of tricky because censorship, there's downstream effects.
00:27:06.000It's not as if you just say one thing and then that has its effect and then it's over.
00:27:12.000I kind of liken this censorship industrial complex to somebody going up on a top of a hill and gathering a whole bunch of gigantic boulders and then pushing them down the hill towards all of their enemies.
00:27:26.000Once that ball starts rolling, once you've given the tools to destroy people you don't like to the private sector using federal money, you can't just stop it.
00:27:42.000You know, there's massive boulders that have crushed us and are still coming at us because of the tools and the technologies that our own government paid for and developed for the entire purpose of censoring us.
00:27:53.000It's just it's unspeakably illegal and awful.
00:27:58.000So we can kill the GEC, but is that enough to eventually prevent it from happening in
00:28:03.000You know, I don't think it's enough to do it forever.
00:28:22.000It was supposed to be targeted at foreign propaganda and terrorist propaganda, not at domestic sources.
00:28:28.000So unfortunately, I think we're only maybe kind of safe while allies of free speech are in office, because once the other side comes in, we know exactly what they're going to
00:28:38.000Sean, plug the Federalist or whatever you'd like our audience to be aware of.
00:28:44.000Yeah, check us out at TheFederalist.com.
00:28:46.000We do great courageous journalism every day.
00:28:48.000You can find us on Twitter at FDRLST or X on Instagram.
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00:30:01.000After October 7th, we have seen the war between Israel and Hamas continue, but there is a domestic issue that is also continually bubbling up.
00:30:12.000Understandably, a lot of people in the Israel advocacy circles, Jewish Americans, are very worried about the rise of anti-Semitism, which...
00:30:22.000There is a rise in Jew hatred and anti-Semitism.
00:30:24.000In fact, we will publish a video of a dialogue that I had at Illinois State University that basically took my breath away.
00:30:31.000Guy was blaming the Jews for everything.
00:30:37.000However, what is happening is that there is by some a push to lower the bar and lower the threshold of what is considered to be anti-Semitic.
00:30:49.000So, Ambassador David Friedman, a man that I respect and that I've gotten to know, I have a different perspective than him on this.
00:30:56.000So, essentially, we'll play this piece of tape first, and then I will respond.
00:30:59.000But I also just need to reinforce my bona fides.
00:31:02.000I don't think there's a Jewish person my age that has a longer or a clearer record of support and sympathy with the Jewish people or opposition to Jew hatred or a love of Israel.
00:31:16.000But I have a disagreement with Ambassador Friedman here.
00:31:19.000And it's part of a trend and a pattern that I think we need to mention here on this program.
00:31:25.000As my predecessor said, I condemn anti-Semitism on the right and on the left.
00:31:31.000I'm an equal opportunity condemner of anti-Semitism.
00:31:34.000You're alluding to Candace Owens and Tucker Carlson.
00:31:38.000Yeah, none of them are any good on the right, on the left.
00:31:42.000I don't like any of these anti-Semites, and I'm not shy about it, but the government
00:31:48.000A government, the United States government or the government of France or the government of any other country, has the power to rein in anti-Semitism in a much more effective way.
00:31:59.000And, you know, people say, well, you know, the governments are not in the business of changing the way people think.
00:32:05.000To my thinking, most people who are, you know, anti-Semites, most of these people running around, we're not going to win their hearts and minds because they don't have hearts and they don't have minds.
00:32:13.000So, you know, how are we going to, there's no reason to think we're ever going to convince them.
00:33:04.000It's wrong, it's repulsive, but it should be legal.
00:33:08.000The First Amendment and our strict freedom of speech is one of America's greatest rights that sets us apart from every other country in the world.
00:33:16.000One of the central promises of Trump's 2024 campaign was to restore and protect American freedom of speech.
00:33:22.000Five years ago, our elites tried to destroy freedom of speech in America in order to stop racism.
00:33:27.000Immediately and predictably stopping racism became a justification for wrecking our cities and wrecking the lives of people who did nothing wrong.
00:33:36.000Simultaneously in the name of stopping transphobia, they tried to make it impossible to dissent against the mutilation of children or radical gender propaganda in schools.
00:33:46.000The criminal witch hunts against President Trump and Fannie Willis and Jack Smith both tried to criminalize President Trump's speech, indicting him for making tweets or delivering speeches.
00:33:55.000Racism and anti-Semitism are both evil and should be opposed.
00:33:59.000Opposed, but a government organized around jailing, impoverishing, or silencing people based on racism is what our enemies wanted.
00:34:05.000We should not repeat their mistakes just because some keffa-wearing communist and depraved pigs are taking over our campuses.
00:34:12.000Just because you don't like a person's opinion does not mean they're an anti-Semite.
00:34:42.000But I think this language needs to be calmed down dramatically.
00:34:45.000Even alluding to the fact that Tucker Carlson should be imprisoned because he has a heterodox view on a topic or that Candace Owen should be imprisoned.
00:34:55.000I'm not putting those words in his mouth.
00:34:57.000And to be fair to him, the most charitable view is he's conflating the Mahmoud Kamil with the domestic issue, but then she brought up the American examples, and then he continued.