Riley Gaines

It doesn't actually mean required.

And so I stood my ground.

But truthfully, I think that's the first time that I learned how to stand up for myself.

And I think that incident and really the whole COVID thing helped me stand up for myself in my senior year when, again, the same tactics, the same emotional blackmail and gaslighting, really, that they were using.

I think it helped me my senior year, too.

Well, I'm sure it helped you see the world now that you're out in a different light.

Definitely.

It's a cult.

I mean, and that's really what it is.

And it doesn't make sense to anybody who's not in the cult.

But the people in the cult, they'll use terms like when that person said,

If you don't vote for me, I'm going to kill myself.

They use these very sneaky terms like life-saving, gender-affirming care in regards to castrating children and putting them on hormone blockers and removing their breasts.

They use this crazy term that seems like, well, it's got to be good.

It's life-saving, gender-affirming.

But really, like...

Think about the message that even just the verbiage of gender-affirming care sends, whether it's to a minor or anyone for that matter.

We're telling them, especially kids, we're telling them that they're correct to feel as if they were born in the wrong body, which what a terrible message.

We should be telling them that they're perfect just the way God created them.

That's what we should be telling these kids, but that's not the message that they're being sent.