Riley Gaines

What a disgrace you are.

And it was hilarious because Representative Lee, a Democrat from Pennsylvania, she was the ranking member, supposed to be, I believe, Katie Porter, who didn't show up.

But anyways, ranking member Lee.

She starts reading her opening monologue.

The first words that come out of her mouth is she says, I can't believe that I'm forced to sit here and listen to this transphobic bigotry.

And really, I felt so sad when I heard that because, again, a sitting member of Congress and she resorts to name calling.

So not dissuading from my side with facts or logic or reasoning or common sense or science.

What happened to follow the science?

Name calling.

And so it's my turn to read my testimony.

And I read it.

I finish it.

And I didn't even mean to say this, but it just kind of.

It came out of my mouth, and I looked at her, and I said, Representative Lee, if my opening testimony makes me transphobic, then understand, by your own logic, your opening monologue makes you a misogynist, which, as you can imagine, sent the hearing into a tailspin.

And I don't think she has ever actually heard this word misogynist accurately used in a sentence, because about 60 seconds later, after her staff ran over to her and showed her the definition, about 60 seconds later, she raises her hand and she says, I want her words removed.

From the record on the grounds of engaging in personalities is what she said, which Marjorie Taylor Greene was in that hearing.

And so she buzzes in and she says, I would call a man posing as a woman, someone who's engaging in personalities.

And then it's like then it's really like I'm like, oh, gosh, what have I done?

Totally.

I'm like, oh, gosh, people are about to start jumping over tables.