Riley Gaines

And so they go into their meeting where they were told they got to anonymously vote.

The coach walks in, has the boy with him.

He says, hey, I know I told you the vote was going to be anonymous, but it's actually going to be by show of hands.

And I'm going to let the boy here give a speech before.

So the boy gets up, gives us talk, and he says, hey, if you don't vote yes, I will kill myself and it will be your fault.

So as you can imagine, 13 of those 17 girls changed their vote to yes.

And it's because they were told they were going to be a murderer.

And three of them are like, go ahead, kill yourself.

But honestly, think about that, though.

That's a crazy thing to say.

They're equating advocating for fair play and privacy in areas of undressing with having blood on your hands.

Same thing that Leah Thomas' school, UPenn,

told those girls that if they do speak out and any harm whatsoever comes towards their his way right whether it's through social media through i mean emotional harm physical harm self-inflicted for that matter they told these girls that they would solely be responsible that would make them a potential murderer and you don't want to be a potential murderer do you no so i suggest you be kind and i suggest you be inclusive god that is so insane it had to feel like a twilight zone

It did.

I mean, this whole process, even even looking back now and maybe at the time, like I didn't necessarily see it for exactly what it is.

Having really removed myself from the situation now and looking back, it's like, whoa, how did they get us all to not that I ever conformed again?

I never thought this was right.

But I mean, we went along with it.

Right.

And how in the world did they manage to achieve that?