Riley Gaines
👤 SpeakerAppearances Over Time
Podcast Appearances
Not as loud, if I'm going to be honest, not as ugly, which I think that gets a lot of media time when you have these men with beards and these big signs.
That certainly catches a lot of cameras.
So they were definitely there.
And looking back, like I said, like being able to see them, it inspired me.
It gave me courage to be willing to kind of put my name and face to it.
Because I was scared at first based on just kind of the silencing tactics that were used to keep us quiet, right?
Like we were told, you know, you'll never get a job if you speak out about this.
Your employer is going to look you up and see that you're a transphobe.
And you don't want that, do you?
You don't want everyone to think that you're transphobic.
Was this a conversation that someone actually had with you?
I mean, we had to go to training, Joe, to learn how—
How to accept that you're being cheated.
They brought in an outside professional.