Riley Gaines: ‘If My Testimony Makes Me Transphobic...Your Opening Monologue Makes You a Misogynist’

GAINES: “And Ranking Member Lee, if my testimony makes me transphobic, then I believe your opening monologue makes you a misogynist. Thank you.”
MCCLAIN: “I now — thank you, Ms. Gaines. I now recognize Ms. Perry for her opening statements.”
Perry: “Good afternoon, Chairman McClain, Ranking Member Lee, and distinguished members of the subcommittee. My name is Sarah Parshall Perry. I am a senior legal fellow at the Heritage Foundation. As a former varsity athlete, the mother of a girls varsity athlete, and former senior counsel for civil rights at the Department of Education, I have, as the saying goes —“

Lee: “Madam Chair, excuse me. I move to have the gentlewoman’s words taken down.”
MCCLAIN: “The committee will suspend.”

Lee: “Madam Chair, she’s engaging in personalities.”
GAINES: “Can I just ask how it’s fair to be called transphobic?”
MCCLAIN: “There’s a —“
Taylor Greene: “I would say men disguising themselves as women are engaging in personalities.”
UNKNOWN: “Order.”
MCCLAIN: “Hang on. Hang on. Order. Order. Let’s — let’s get a ruling.”

Lee: “Okay, I move to withdraw the point of order.”
MCCLAIN: “Thank you, Ms. Lee. I now recognize Ms. Perry for her opening statement. You can start over. Thank you.”