Riley Gaines

And you're going to have that with trans rights.

You're going to have that with gay rights.

You're going to have that with everything.

You're always going to have some people that capitalize on something and they interject themselves into it and they use it to stir people up.

And they always call people either racist or transphobic or homophobic.

And they use all those pejoratives.

You're always going to have those people.

But we have to learn how to ignore those morons.

We have to learn how to just recognize like that person.

And honestly, like what I've realized, because again, like initially taking that first step, it was hard for me to read a lot of the things that were written.

And like because, again, a very natural woman, I think thing, I think a pretty human thing like.

I don't want to ruffle feathers.

I don't want to step on toes.

I don't want to be disrespectful.

So it's hard for me to read a lot of what was being said about me online.

But I realized pretty quickly, honestly, that the hate and the attacks that I were getting were kind of, they kind of fell into three categories, one of three.

One, it was calling me some sort of phobia or ism.

And like I said, those words lost their meaning pretty quickly to me.

Two, it was some sort of personal attack, like you're ugly or like your hair extensions look bad.

And I'm like, this is my real hair.