Interview with Riley Gaines

The Erick Erickson Show

Erick Erickson

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🗓️ 12 April 2023

⏱️ 15 minutes

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Riley Gaines is a 12-time All-American swimmer from the University of Kentucky who would much rather be in dental school than doing interviews with people like me on the radio. Instead, Gaines has been thrust into the national spotlight for having the courage to say that young women should not have to compete against men in sports or change in front of men in locker rooms. That is exactly what happened when the NCAA forced her to compete against transgender athlete Lia Thomas in a championship event. Just last week at a speaking engagement, Gaines was assaulted on stage and held hostage by trans radicalists at a university in San Francisco. If not for a police officer nearby, her situation could have been much worse. Take a moment and listen.

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0:00.0	I was, where was I?
0:03.0	I was Thursday of last week and getting ready for the Good Friday show around here.
0:09.0	And Charlie texted me and says, are you looking at what's happening at San Francisco State University?
0:16.0	They have surrounded Riley Gaines and they're not letting her out.
0:22.4	It was a bizarre, bizarre situation.
0:27.4	If you're not familiar with Riley Gaines, she's the NCAA swimmer who has been very outspoken about trans women competing against biological women in sports.
0:38.2	That is men pretending to be women.
0:41.1	And in many cases, they're pretending because they sucked at men's sports and decided now
0:45.0	they're going to be women to try to get ahead coming into women's sports.
0:48.5	And she went to San Francisco State and transgender activists essentially held her hostage there.
0:54.1	And the students are condemning her violence.
0:59.6	Riley Gaines violence.
1:01.4	The violence was she spoke, truth.
1:05.4	And the truth itself apparently was violence.
1:08.0	Well, we're going to hear some of that violence here because I have
1:11.1	Riley Gaines with me on the phone. Welcome to the Eric Erickson Show. How are you?
1:15.6	I'm doing good, Eric. How are you doing? Great. So first of all, thank you for being outspoken on
1:22.5	this issue. I've got a 17-year-old daughter who is just, I mean, visibly angered and perplexed by these issues
1:29.8	and the stories of friends of hers who go to schools that are encountering these issues.
1:34.6	And she's like, this is absolutely insanity.
1:37.2	Why are adults letting this happen?
1:38.5	And yet here they are, including at San Francisco State.
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