Riley Gaines (2024) - Fighting for Female Sports: A Swimmer's Journey

21/05/2025 17 min

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Episode Synopsis

This recap episode features Riley Gaines discussing her unexpected journey from a college swimmer on track for dentistry to a prominent advocate for women's sports, focusing on the controversy of transgender women competing in female categories. She details her personal experience competing against Lia Thomas, a transgender swimmer, highlighting the perceived unfairness and disregard for female athletes by the NCAA. Gaines describes how this pivotal experience, including being denied a trophy she tied for, galvanized her into activism, despite facing silencing tactics and criticism. The discussion expands to broader societal issues, including the definition of woman, the influence of ideology, and the importance of standing up for biological sex-based rights, emphasizing the need for individuals to speak out and support businesses and organizations that uphold these values.---We all love The Joe Rogan Experience and much prefer the real thing, but sometimes it's not possible to listen to an entire episode or you just want to recap an episode you've previously listened to. The Joe Rogan Recap uses Google's NotebookLM to create a conversational podcast that recaps episodes of JRE into a more manageable listen.

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