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00:27:16.420Which, let me just add, this is a sport we are working, again, all year in hopes to shave a few one-hundredths of a second off of your time.
00:27:28.660There's not a lot of margin of error here.
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00:30:39.600Riley, you mentioned All-American a moment ago that the girls that were crying and the mothers and the dads that were crying because they were one shot out, one spot out of an incredible prestigious award.
00:30:51.960When you talk about shaving time and then this advantage that he has over you, what was the difference between first place and 10th place when you're talking about shaving seconds or 10ths of seconds off?
00:31:04.780Like, I don't think people understand just how close it is at the elite level.
00:31:27.020Now, we're seeing this not just in swimming.
00:31:30.320We're seeing this in sport after sport after sport.
00:31:32.640Right now, it's become an issue with San Jose State volleyball, where there's a biological man who's playing on the women's volleyball team.
00:31:40.520And there have now been multiple women's teams that have refused to play.
00:31:46.000Give us your reaction to that, having competed in a different sport but at the same elite level.
00:31:51.480Well, first, this is the first time we have seen something like this, a movement in motion where teams are standing in unity together saying,
00:32:04.040we won't allow this to happen, enough is enough.
00:32:07.080You're not going to continue to discriminate against us on the basis of our sex, which is, of course, everything that Title IX was passed originally to prevent from happening.
00:32:17.160As you described, San Jose State University, they allowed a man onto their team to take a scholarship.
00:32:25.760He has taken, when they travel, you know, that travel spot that rightfully belongs to a girl, to a woman.
00:32:32.460But in talking with and working with these presidents of these other Mountain West Conference schools, like, for example, Southern Utah, Boise State, followed by University of Wyoming, and most recently, just last night, Utah State,
00:32:48.360these four schools have said, hey, we're not going to compete against this team.
00:32:52.800The universities, of course, haven't specifically cited a reason, but I can tell you in talking to these teams, these girls are fearful of their safety.
00:33:12.460We don't want to be on the receiving end.
00:33:14.120I've seen this boy give career-ending concussions to girls, and so they cite safety concerns, these women, for not feeling comfortable to play.
00:33:23.920And I'll tell you, there's more schools in the pipeline coming up who will soon also cancel their games against San Jose State University.
00:33:30.920Well, and the risks of physical safety, particularly in sports that have more and more direct contact, whether you're dealing with volleyball and someone spiking the ball into your face, or a sport like basketball, or we saw at the Olympics so-called women's boxing with biological males competing.
00:33:50.480Give us your thoughts on the risks of really serious injury that can happen when you have biological males engaged in direct physical violence in a sport against women.
00:34:04.160Well, I'm not even going to give you my thoughts.
00:34:06.220I'll tell you exactly what is happening.
00:34:08.420I'm going to give you factual information here.
00:34:11.220Let's look, for example, at Peyton McNabb, a high school senior.
00:34:14.960She was at the time in North Carolina.
00:34:17.420A similar situation, actually, it's a sport of volleyball.
00:34:21.700A man on the opposing team, he jumps up, he spikes the ball, hits her in the face.
00:34:25.820She's knocked unconscious, where she lays for many minutes before, you know, finally coming back around.
00:34:31.340Still to this day, that was two years ago.
00:34:33.240That was September of 2022, so over two years ago.
00:34:37.020Still to this day, she's partially paralyzed on her right side.
00:34:43.260She has to have special accommodations for testing at school because she can't retain information like she once could.
00:34:49.540She was supposed to play softball in college, but because of this brain injury, she will not go on to do that.
00:34:56.160She has to have part of her pituitary gland removed out of her brain because of how traumatic the head injury was.
00:35:02.040Let's look for, or look at, for example, what we saw at a high school in Massachusetts, where a male was allowed to play field hockey with the girls, against the girls.
00:35:15.060And this boy, he slaps a shot at the women, one of the women on the field.
00:35:19.060It hits her in the face, in the mouth, and it knocked all her teeth out.
00:35:22.120Even if she had to undergo facial reconstruction surgery to reconstruct her jaw, this male player, he's given career-ending concussions to girls, like I said.
00:35:34.100Most recently, we saw him hit a woman in the face from University of Delaware to where she didn't even have time to defend herself.
00:35:41.020There was no reaction time for her that would have been able to prevent this hit from hitting her in the head.
00:35:49.860The list goes on. We saw recently even what the Olympics has done.
00:35:55.420The IOC allowed two men, two plural males, to compete in women's boxing, which naturally, both of these men went on to win gold medals in their respective weight divisions.
00:36:08.280And one of the female boxers who fought against this boxer, one of the male boxers, said she had never been punched that forcefully, that hard in her entire life.
00:36:18.520She said this was nothing, a punch that a woman could throw.
00:36:23.200How is this remotely fair? In what universe is this even arguably fair?
00:36:32.860And I'll tell you, the people who are lobbying for this, who are voting in favor of this, who are advocating for this, they don't even believe it.
00:36:41.360Even recently, Senator Cruz, when I testified, actually before your committee, I had some of your colleagues from across the aisle come up to me before the hearing and say,
00:36:51.500Hey, look, you know, I played football at Stanford. I totally get where you're coming from.
00:40:09.040I shouldn't say they don't know how to do their job.
00:40:10.880They just don't do their job in this city.
00:40:16.240Well, and often they're prevented from doing it by the political leadership who doesn't let them protect the rights of innocence because ideology trumps actually defending people's rights and people's safety.
00:40:30.580And we see, whether it's in San Francisco or Minneapolis or New York or Los Angeles, we see that left-wing Democrats prevent law enforcement from protecting innocence,
00:40:43.620in many cases from violence, that the ideology on the left is if the violence is carried out by someone whose politics they align with,
00:40:54.740then they're happy to look the other way and to effectively handcuff police officers from protecting the innocent from violence.
00:41:02.180And that's exactly what these officers said.
00:41:05.220You know, I asked them, can't you do something?
00:41:10.300We're not allowed to do anything because we're not allowed to be seen as anything other than an ally to that community or else we'll lose our jobs.
00:41:16.300Again, the same community who's on the other side of the door where we were barricaded,
00:41:21.000who called these officers racist pigs for protecting a white girl like me.
00:41:26.560That's who they, again, were almost forcibly had to side with in this scenario.
00:41:34.160Well, Riley, thank you for speaking out.
00:41:36.560Thank you for speaking out, not just for yourself, but you're speaking out for women.
00:41:42.680You're speaking out for the next generation of athletes.
00:41:44.920You know, Title IX transformed athletics and created opportunity for millions of schoolgirls to compete and develop discipline and teamwork
00:41:55.100and get all of the benefits of athletic competition.
00:41:57.980And I got to say, the current insanity of pretending there is no such thing as girls and boys,
00:42:03.720there is no such thing as women and men, it really threatens the ability of both women and girls to compete in athletics.
00:42:11.460And I think your courage, there are a lot of people who are grateful to you, even if they don't say so.
00:42:17.620I'm telling you, there are millions of Texans and millions of people across the country who are grateful to you, Riley.
00:42:23.200Well, I appreciate both you, Senator Cruz, and, of course, Ben, for everything that you guys have done.
00:42:29.800I mean, I think, Senator Cruz, in terms of the gender ideology movement, there are really few who have done it as such a great job as you,
00:42:42.100as highlighting the insanity, spreading awareness.
00:42:44.680I think of the activist judge, Sarah Netburn, who, I mean, your line of questioning was just brilliant.