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Monday Mini: Anti-Trans Laws in the State of Georgia · Stuff Mom Never Told You

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  Speaker 1: Okay, this is Annie and Samantha.
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  Speaker 2: Welcome to Stuff I Never Told You. Production by Hurt Radio.
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  Speaker 1: And today's Monday Mini is sponsored by my current rage
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  Speaker 1: and frustration. So trigger warning. We are talking about anti
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  Speaker 1: trans rhetoric and hatred as well as so many other
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  Speaker 1: things that this current administration is viewing US conservatism and
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  Speaker 1: Republican but is a thinly veiled attempt to pushing their
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  Speaker 1: hate and white patriarchal supremacy. So there you go. I
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  Speaker 1: will tell you if you are not from the trans community,
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  Speaker 1: I think you need to listen, and I think we
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  Speaker 1: have to keep paying attention. We are tired, we are exhausted,
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  Speaker 1: we are over the top. I get it, but we
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  Speaker 1: need to be reminded of what we're trying to fight against,
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  Speaker 1: and just to remember there are organizations out there that
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  Speaker 1: are fighting this. So with that, this is very much
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  Speaker 1: much a current affairs conversation. So we're gonna timestamp it.
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  Speaker 1: We are recording this on July first, twenty twenty five,
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  Speaker 1: so some things may change between us publishing it, which
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  Speaker 1: would be on July seventh, Monday, and hopefully I'm gonna
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  Speaker 1: put this out there in hopes that we will change
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  Speaker 1: some good changes may be occurring as you listen to
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  Speaker 1: this in the future. I wrote that in the script. Anyway,
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  Speaker 1: it's small joyce, but I'm very hopeful that this will
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  Speaker 1: be studied as to oh my god, can you believe
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  Speaker 1: that happened? And look at how far we've come. This
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  Speaker 1: is what I'm hoping for in the future. So we're
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  Speaker 1: just gonna put this as a preservation of we see
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  Speaker 1: what you've done, and we're gonna name the bad people.
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  Speaker 1: All right. So today marks the beginning of several changes
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  Speaker 1: in the Georgia state law, including the implementation of the
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  Speaker 1: Raleigh Gains Act or Senate Bill one or House Bill
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  Speaker 1: two sixty seven. So apparently they're both under that and
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  Speaker 1: what is this law exactly? Yes, I took a day
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  Speaker 1: breath because I'm very frustrated and angry. There may be
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  Speaker 1: cursing Christina's I might I might give you some like
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  Speaker 1: real real editing wars here, because I might go off,
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  Speaker 1: but I'm trying not to. So here's how the Lieutenant
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  Speaker 1: Governor of Georgia their site describes it. Quote Senate Bill one,
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  Speaker 1: the Riley Gains Act of twenty twenty five is based
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  Speaker 1: on legislative findings relating to the need to protect girls
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  Speaker 1: and women's athletics and the work of the Senate Special
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  Speaker 1: Committee on the Protection of Women's Sports, which Lieutenant Governor
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  Speaker 1: Jones created and appointed. By enacting Senate Bill one, Georgia
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  Speaker 1: would join the twenty six other states that protect women's sports.
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  Speaker 1: And we want to pin that last bit that currently
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  Speaker 1: twenty six other states have enacted similar bills under the
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  Speaker 1: guise of quote protecting women's sports. I take a pause
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  Speaker 1: because I'm gonna start cursing. In a second, check in
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  Speaker 1: with you, Annie. Are you about to curse? Are you
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  Speaker 1: just glad that I'm not not going off and throwing things?
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  Speaker 2: Yes?
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  Speaker 1: Generally growth anyway. But to put it in more detail,
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  Speaker 1: within the twenty four page legislation, they require the usage
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  Speaker 1: of the term sex instead of gender and to keep
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  Speaker 1: the binary male and female as assigned by birth. And
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  Speaker 1: we all know about this rhetoric. We know this, We
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  Speaker 1: know this usage of keeping everything same sex as they
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  Speaker 1: write it as in like only males in male sports only,
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  Speaker 1: women in women's sports only, males only, females not women.
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  Speaker 1: I apologize females because you know, and it allows for
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  Speaker 1: families and individuals to sue organizations they feel are infringing
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  Speaker 1: on these said rights and protections. Also, I would like
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  Speaker 1: to know I did not talk about the many incidents
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  Speaker 1: of them accusing what they would call a signed at
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  Speaker 1: birth women male females of beemles and going after them,
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  Speaker 1: harassing them, beating them, killing them, murdering them, and also
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  Speaker 1: using this to murder trans women. Okay, moving off. So
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  Speaker 1: the peach Pundit dot com, I'm not really sure about
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  Speaker 1: the site, but they were pretty straightforward. So I liked
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  Speaker 1: what they had because that was able to be succinct
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  Speaker 1: because there was a lot of information in that legislation.
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  Speaker 1: But the peach pundit dot com highlights different sections within
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  Speaker 1: the Act and some things to note. Again, the whole
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  Speaker 1: thing is infuriating and I wanted to throw my computer anyway,
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  Speaker 1: So the Professional Status Commission is authorized to investigate complaints
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  Speaker 1: of non compliance, meaning sanctions may be imposed for violations.
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  Speaker 1: Parents or legal guardians may file a legal claim against
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  Speaker 1: a school or school system if a A student encounters
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  Speaker 1: a member of the opposite sex in a dressroom or
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  Speaker 1: changing area. Due to a school's permission, b a student
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  Speaker 1: is required to share sleeping quarters with a member of
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  Speaker 1: the opposite sex who is not a family member. Another
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  Speaker 1: part is another Any student, parent, school, or athletic association
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  Speaker 1: may file a private cause of action if they suffer
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  Speaker 1: direct or indirect harm due to one a violation of
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  Speaker 1: the restrictions or athletic participation to retaliation for reporting a violation,
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  Speaker 1: which is ironic by the way. Yeah, yeah, okay. And
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  Speaker 1: then there's another part which the bill defines sex as
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  Speaker 1: either a male or female based on biological characteristics observed
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  Speaker 1: at or before birth, meaning it replaces gender with sex
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  Speaker 1: and all applicable Georgia laws and with that any laws
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  Speaker 1: that conflict with the provisions of this act are repealed.
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  Speaker 1: That's something we need to remember, yep, because that's just blanket,
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  Speaker 1: very easy to use. Okay. So those are some of
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  Speaker 1: the things that I'm like, yeah, this is there's so
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  Speaker 1: many other things in this it's really really harmful that
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  Speaker 1: I was just like, but let's look at this right now.
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  Speaker 1: But there's just a small bit of what we're talking about,
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  Speaker 1: and so on that note, who the hell is this
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  Speaker 1: Grimlin Riley Gaines. You may have seen some of the
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  Speaker 1: back and forth that she had with Simona Biles, an
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  Speaker 1: Olympic champion with literal moves and routines and named after
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  Speaker 1: her like multi champion link goat literal. But in short,
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  Speaker 1: it is pretty much she's pretty much a sore loser
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  Speaker 1: who tied for fifth place with a trans athlete in
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  Speaker 1: a collegiate swim competition. Fifth place these specificis didn't win.
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  Speaker 1: She wasn't winning. She didn't win. She's never won FYI ever, ever, ever,
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  Speaker 1: And she had one trans woman who tied with her.
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  Speaker 1: And by the way, her initial reaction was not bad.
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  Speaker 1: She was like, you know, she works really hard, she's
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  Speaker 1: done what she's done, like talking about the trans athlete, congratulations.
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  Speaker 1: And then as the year went by, she was like, wait,
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  Speaker 1: I should be angry. Wait, I can make money, eight,
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  Speaker 1: I can be famous. There are articles with older teammates
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  Speaker 1: who were like, no, we're distancing ourselves because this is weird.
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  Speaker 1: We definitely this is such a transformation for what we
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  Speaker 1: knew of her. Then, yeah, so this is that woman,
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  Speaker 1: And honestly, I think she should be remembered as a
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  Speaker 1: person who cried about tying for a fifth in the
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  Speaker 1: one competition she actually meddled. That's how we should remember her.
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  Speaker 1: But she was like, I'm so great, I can critique
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  Speaker 1: Simone Biles, everything is rage in me but anyway, But
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  Speaker 1: as some details from glad dot org, who has titled
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  Speaker 1: her as an anti transgender activist, they write quote Riley
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  Speaker 1: Gaines is an American former collegiate swimmer from Gallatin, Tennessee.
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  Speaker 1: In twenty twenty two, while swinging for the University of
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  Speaker 1: Kentucky in the two hundred yard NCAA Freestyle Championship, Gaines
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  Speaker 1: finished behind three cisgender competitors and tied for fifth place
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  Speaker 1: with the University of Pennsylvania swimmer Leah Thomas, a transgender
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  Speaker 1: woman who followed all rules to participate. Gaines has since
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  Speaker 1: lobbied against the inclusion of trans women in the women's
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  Speaker 1: division of sports, been a frequent guest on right wing media,
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  Speaker 1: travels nationwide for panels advocating against transgender people, and campaigned
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  Speaker 1: for anti trans candidates for public office, including rand Paul
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  Speaker 1: Ron Desantez, Kim Reynolds, Daniel Cameron, and others. By the way,
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  Speaker 1: she's been noted to make unfounded claims such as this again,
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  Speaker 1: according to glad dot org. At a speech at University
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  Speaker 1: of Wyoming, she opened with allegations of an assault at
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  Speaker 1: San Francisco State University made specific note that she was
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  Speaker 1: attacked by men in dresses with beards, and that she
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  Speaker 1: was apparently held ransom along with police officers until she
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  Speaker 1: gave the protesters ten dollars each.
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  Speaker 2: Big score, real big score.
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  Speaker 1: And police say her claims are unfounded. Yeah, how is
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  Speaker 1: this not an Onion article? It's the world with beards
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  Speaker 1: made me give them ten dollars along.
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  Speaker 2: With the police. Like that, being held hostage alongside the police.
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  Speaker 1: The dudes with guns who loved to just shoot. Yeah. Oh,
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  Speaker 1: and yes, she did sue NCC to quote challenge the
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  Speaker 1: organization's transgender eligibility policies, meaning she wanted to get rid
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  Speaker 1: of all trans women and women's sports. And because we
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  Speaker 1: know this is only the groundwork of a bigger anti
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  Speaker 1: queer agenda. Here's some more information from Glad about her
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  Speaker 1: specific organization quote. Riley Gaines is the director of the RILEYG.
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  Speaker 1: Ganes Center at the Leadership Institute. The Leadership Institute receives
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  Speaker 1: funding from several Coke family foundations, the Lynn and Harry
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  Speaker 1: Bradley Foundation, which promotes anti LGBTQ initiatives, including support for
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  Speaker 1: studies and campaigns that oppose LGBTQ rights, particularly in the
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  Speaker 1: context of education and public policies. Donors Trust and Donors
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  Speaker 1: Capital Fund, which opposes LGBTQ rights and funds various organizations
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  Speaker 1: that push anti LGBTQ agendas, the National Christian Charitable Foundation,
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  Speaker 1: which opposes LGBTQ rights, particularly marriage equality and transgender rights,
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  Speaker 1: among others. So yes, she is a part of this
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  Speaker 1: larger organization, a part of the Heritage Foundation, a part
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  Speaker 1: of the whole project twenty twenty five. We hated here,
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  Speaker 1: But back to this insidious policy. Yes, as we mentioned,
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  Speaker 1: at least twenty six other states are either trying to
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  Speaker 1: or have passed similar bills. I believe West Virginia is
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  Speaker 1: one of those, and they have passed it as well. Right,
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  Speaker 1: they are smiling so big. I can't condone violence, but
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  Speaker 1: violent actions do go through my head anyway. Moving on,
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  Speaker 1: and just as a reminder, the amount of openly trans
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  Speaker 1: athletes that are competing in the NCAA is less than ten.
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  Speaker 1: Less than ten. Yeah, it is a single digit number
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  Speaker 1: as a twenty twenty five as of this year.
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  Speaker 2: Yep.
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  Speaker 1: The way my fista clenched and I'm so angry, I'm
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  Speaker 1: gonna have a stroke. Moving on, and the numbers keep
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  Speaker 1: getting worse. From trans Legislation dot Com. In twenty twenty one,
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  Speaker 1: there were one hundred and forty three and I trans bills,
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  Speaker 1: with eighteen of them passing, and in twenty twenty five,
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  Speaker 1: four years later, there have been nine hundred and forty
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  Speaker 1: two bills. As of I believe today their website is
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  Speaker 1: pretty on top of things, with one hundred and sixteen
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  Speaker 1: of them passing, and last year fifty one of them
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  Speaker 1: passed with a seven hundred and one introduced, so it
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  Speaker 1: has more than doubled within this year, which is not over,
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  Speaker 1: which is almost like literally a little bit halfway over.
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  Speaker 2: Yep.
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  Speaker 1: And if you're curious, Texas wins with the most one
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  Speaker 1: hundred and thirty bills considered, which is even more than
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  Speaker 1: the national count the federal level account which is at
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  Speaker 1: sixty seven, who is tied for number two with Missouri. Delaware,
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  Speaker 1: by the way, seemingly is the safest state for our
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  Speaker 1: trans friends, with only one anti trans bill in consideration,
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  Speaker 1: which is still too many. It's one too many in
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  Speaker 1: our opinions, m H, like, why can't there be one
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  Speaker 1: state with zero? We failed, We failed, But remember take
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  Speaker 1: a deep breath, then everybody me specifically, I know, I
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  Speaker 1: know I'm about to talk about gardening, so yes, I'm
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  Speaker 1: gonna calm down. We do have many organizations like that
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  Speaker 1: Human Rights Campaign, Advocates for Trans Equality, trans Law Center,
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  Speaker 1: and many more working to fight against these really hateful policies.
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  Speaker 1: There are some small wins happening around the world, around
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  Speaker 1: the country, even though today I wish I could go
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  Speaker 1: and be volatile against our own administration in the state
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  Speaker 1: of Georgia. For our trans friends, if you've stuck around
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  Speaker 1: to hear what's going on and are so down, we
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  Speaker 1: love you, We see you, We see you your humanity
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  Speaker 1: and your struggles, and we know this is a scary,
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  Speaker 1: scary time. I'm with you, and if you need anything,
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  Speaker 1: know that we are here and we will keep speaking
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  Speaker 1: up for you.
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  Speaker 2: Yes, yes we will, we will, And please let us
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  Speaker 2: know if there's something that you think we should be
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  Speaker 2: talking about. Our resources are people you think we should
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  Speaker 2: talk to. It also sounds like we might need to
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  Speaker 2: bring back one of our meditation episodes.
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  Speaker 1: What you're talking about, I think it'd be.
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  Speaker 2: Good for all of us.
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