Ep 816 | Reliving the Trauma of Sharing a Locker Room with 'Lia' Thomas | Guest: Riley Gaines

Relatable with Allie Beth Stuckey

Blaze Podcast Network

Christianity, News Commentary, News, Religion & Spirituality

4.8 • 25.8K Ratings

🗓️ 5 June 2023

⏱️ 49 minutes

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Today, we’re joined by Riley Gaines to talk about her decision to speak out against men competing in women’s sports. Her story started when she tied with Lia (Will) Thomas in the NCAA Women’s Swimming Championships and saw the trophy given to Thomas rather than her for the photo op. She covers the traumatizing experience of having to change with a man in the women’s locker room and how blindsided and betrayed she and the other swimmers felt. We discuss the backlash and harassment she’s faced for standing up for women in sports, including being held hostage after a speech at San Francisco State University. Riley issues a challenge to female athletes and offers some advice to parents. Then, she joins us again for a special announcement. --- Timecodes: (00:54) Intro & Monday encouragement (13:23) Background on Riley (17:15) Deciding to fight sports injustice (19:36) Will Thomas & denying truth (30:55) Family response to Riley's competition (34:35) Calling on girls to boycott (40:03) Title IX (44:20) Riley's announcement --- Today's Sponsors: Naturally It's Clean — visit https://naturallyitsclean.com/allie and use promo code "ALLIE" to receive 15% off your order. If you are an Amazon shopper you can visit https://amzn.to/3IyjFUJ, but the promo code discount is only valid on their direct website at www.naturallyitsclean.com/Allie. PublicSq. — download the PublicSq app from the App Store or Google Play, create a free account, and begin your search for freedom-loving businesses! My Patriot Supply — prepare yourself for anything with long-term emergency food storage. Get $200 of survival gear when you buy a Three-Month Emergency Food Kit when you go to MyPatriotSupply.com. ExpressVPN — have more anonymity online. Go to ExpressVPN.com/ALLIE and get three extra months FREE. --- Links: Politico: "Biden’s Title IX sports rule draws 100,000 comments" https://www.politico.com/newsletters/weekly-education/2023/05/08/bidens-title-ix-sports-rule-draws-100-000-comments-00095728 Fox 7: "Texas House committee holds hearing on 'Save Women's Sports' bill SB 15" https://www.fox7austin.com/news/texas-house-committee-holds-hearing-on-save-womens-sports-bill-sb-15 --- Relevant Episodes: Ep 786 | Mike Todd’s Blasphemous Easter Service https://podcasts.apple.com/us/podcast/ep-786-mike-todds-blasphemous-easter-service/id1359249098?i=1000608480872 Ep 565 | The Women Saving Women's Sports | Guest: Ainsley Erzen https://podcasts.apple.com/us/podcast/ep-565-the-women-saving-womens-sports-guest-ainsley-erzen/id1359249098?i=1000551315905 Ep 644 | BLM Defends Another Criminal & 'Lia' Thomas Is Woman of the Year https://podcasts.apple.com/us/podcast/ep-644-blm-defends-another-criminal-lia-thomas-is-woman/id1359249098?i=1000570376082 Ep 569 | Kim & Kanye, 'Conscious Co-Parenting' & Disrupting God’s Order | Guest: Delano Squires https://podcasts.apple.com/us/podcast/ep-569-kim-kanye-conscious-co-parenting-disrupting/id1359249098?i=1000551920276 Ep 815 | MLB Christians Push Back on Pride https://podcasts.apple.com/us/podcast/ep-815-mlb-christians-push-back-on-pride/id1359249098?i=1000615334284 --- Buy Allie's book, You're Not Enough (& That's Okay): Escaping the Toxic Culture of Self-Love: https://alliebethstuckey.com/book Relatable merchandise – use promo code 'ALLIE10' for a discount: https://shop.blazemedia.com/collections/allie-stuckey

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0:00.0	Childhood should be fun. Don't let bed wetting spoil that.
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0:30.0	Riley Gaines was an elite collegiate swimmer who was forced to change in front of and compete against a man at the end of her college athletics career.
0:41.0	And now she is still making waves as an advocate for women's sports.
0:47.0	And so we're going to be talking to Riley today why she has chosen to step up.
0:52.0	Also she's got a special announcement that she's making at the end of this episode.
0:55.0	But first I just want to start off the day in the week with a little bit of biblical encouragement for my relatable crew.
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1:22.0	Hey guys, welcome to relatable happy Monday. I hope everyone had a wonderful weekend.
1:27.0	All right, before we get into our conversation with Riley, I just wanted to give some Monday morning encouragement.
1:33.0	May you guys know I like to do this sometimes at the top of every episode. Sometimes just at the beginning of the week.
1:39.0	To remind you to simply do the next right thing in faith with excellence and for the glory of God.
1:46.0	In fact, if you're going to Young Women's Leadership Summit this weekend, I will be there speaking on Saturday.
1:52.0	And we will have some merch a shirt with that on it that I think is super cute. Maybe my favorite piece of merch that we've ever gotten.
2:02.0	Also, don't forget we have some no way at covenant month shirt some beautiful rainbow attire that reminds us of God's faithfulness for sale at alley merch.com.
2:13.0	I don't know if the do everything in faith with excellence and for the glory of God.
2:18.0	Church will be made available to everyone or if it's just those of you going to YWLS. I'm not sure I'll let you know about that.
2:25.0	But that was just an aside. My encouragement to you is today do the next right thing in faith with excellence and for the glory of God.
2:32.0	I posted on Instagram some ways that we can glorify God this month of June. And of course these are things that we can be doing all of the time.
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