Protecting Women’s Sports with Riley Gaines
The Heidi St. John Podcast
Heidi St. John
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🗓️ 13 March 2024
⏱️ 28 minutes
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Summary
Today I am joined by Riley Gaines sharing her personal experience as a former female athlete competing against a transgender athlete. The injustice of allowing biological males to compete against biological females cannot be understated, and our young girls need us to fight for them.
Riley has suggestions for parents and athletes when they are invited to competitions that allow transgender athletes to compete against biological females.
Stick around for Happy Hour where I’m discussing more about the transgender movement in schools and in our culture in general and what we can do practically to move the needle.
Show Notes: http://heidistjohn.com/blog/podcasts/protecting-womens-sports-riley-gaines
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| 0:00.0 | Riley Gaines is a University of Kentucky grad a 12-time all-American |
| 0:04.1 | collegiate swimmer and most recently she's been known for speaking out after tying |
| 0:09.2 | Leah Thomas a biological male swimmer on the women's team at the 2022 NCAA Division 1 |
| 0:16.6 | Women's Swimming and Diving Championships. Since then Riley's become one of the |
| 0:21.4 | most powerful voices speaking out against males competing in women's sports and recently she expanded her message to reach future generations by authoring a children's book which teaches kids about the importance of standing up for truth. |
| 0:35.7 | Riley is joining me today to talk about what's happening in women's sports and more importantly |
| 0:40.0 | what's happening with the transgender movement and what we can do to be |
| 0:43.6 | champions for truth. This is the Heidi St John podcast. Stick around. I think you're |
| 0:47.8 | going to the show. Riley, it's such a pleasure to have you here. Thanks for coming on. |
| 1:03.7 | Well, thank you, Heidi. |
| 1:04.7 | I could not be more excited to talk with you. |
| 1:07.1 | I feel like we've known each other for a while. |
| 1:08.8 | Like, you know, you're like my daughter from another mother, |
| 1:11.6 | just this really fierce outspoken warrior really for truth and for women but I have a |
| 1:18.4 | hunch this is not what you started out wanting to do am I right right? You would be exactly right. Who would ever want to do this? |
| 1:26.0 | Yeah, no, I was said to be a dentist actually is what I had graduated with my degree in and was set to be in dental school. |
| 1:35.6 | You know, I had already put my deposit down, accepted my seat, taking the DAT, which is the |
| 1:41.5 | test to get into dental school, |
| 1:43.0 | scoring the top percentile nationally, |
| 1:45.0 | could have gone wherever. |
| 1:48.0 | So yeah, this is a large deviation from where I thought I was going to be, but you and I both know that that's the quickest way to make God laugh in your face is it is for yourself right it is it really is so let's |
| 2:05.3 | jump right into this because I know I mean I've been talking about this issue for |
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