Ep 459 | Riley Gaines Exposes Lia Thomas, ESPN & NCAA, Shares Gratitude for Sage Steele, Sam Ponder

Fearless with Jason Whitlock

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Sports News, Politics, News, Sports

4.8 • 8.2K Ratings

🗓️ 2 June 2023

⏱️ 41 minutes

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“This isn't really someone who is transgendered; this is a transvestite, and we were subjected to participating in this person's fetish." Riley Gaines opens up to “Fearless” regarding her season in the pool competing against a man. Gaines, a former NCAA swimming champ at the University of Kentucky, recounts the experience of sharing a locker room with Lia Thomas, a biological male who claims to be a transgendered female athlete. Gaines shares her thoughts on sharing a locker room with a fully intact man and the moment that changed her life from a student-athlete to a nationally known advocate for women. "Seventeen years of my life I dedicated to my sport. When they reduce that down to a photo op to validate the feelings and identity of a male, that's when I was no longer willing to lie and say that Thomas was a woman..." Learn more about your ad choices. Visit megaphone.fm/adchoices

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0:30.0	Welcome to Fearless with Jason Whitlock.
0:48.2	I am Jason Whitlock, your host.
0:50.6	We made it.
0:51.8	It's Friday.
0:53.2	The weekends here.
0:54.5	I hope you're as excited as I am.
0:56.8	I'm looking forward to the weekend.
0:59.4	It's been a tough, awesome, inspiring, interesting week.
1:07.9	We're now in today too of Pride Month.
1:11.8	We've been hammering that topic, and we're going to get at it in a different way today.
1:16.8	We're finally going to interview someone I've been dying to interview for a long time,
1:21.0	Riley Gaines, the University of Kentucky swimmer who is at the forefront at the Trans-Athlete
1:28.8	issue.
1:30.8	Riley, of course, swam against William Leah Thomas in the NCAA, the University of Pennsylvania,
1:37.1	transgender swimmer, and she's been making news all over the country.
1:40.6	I can't wait to talk to Riley, and we'll do that in a second.
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