The Trish Regan Show - Riley Gaines Says ‘Hell Just Froze Over’ as UPenn Bows to Feds, Strips Lia Thomas’s Records

Episode Date: July 3, 2025

UPenn has officially erased Lia Thomas’s women’s swimming records after a federal Title IX probe, prompting Riley Gaines to declare, “Hell just froze over.” This is a CLIP from the LIVE Trish Regan Show Episode 187 Learn more about your ad choices. Visit megaphone.fm/adchoices

We are winning, winning, winning, winning, okay? I love this. Again, I'm a mom. I have two kids. I was not much of an athlete, but I'll tell you, if I was, you know, singer. If I was, do you know how demoralizing it would be to know that I didn't just have to compete against myself and other women, but I had to compete against somebody who had been born with a very different genetic profile and thus a different hormone profile, and thus the

ability to make and grow muscle for years on end in very formative years much more than I could. Not to mention somebody who wouldn't even rank in the women's division, forgive me, in the men's division. And the only time the person ranked was when the person decided to go for the women's division, right? And I'm talking about swimming, I'm talking about running, I'm talking about all the sports that somehow now have been infiltrated by people who, you know, people who. who aren't really sure who they are,

think there's something else, and we don't even have to get into that debate. Okay? Like, let me just keep it simple. It's not fair. It's not one bit fair. And it took Donald Trump coming into office to change this. The fact that this is even something we have to talk about,

the fact that poor Riley Gaines was standing there, you remember, I mean, remember, do we have the, we do, we have the, I think, Well, this is the one that beat her out, but I think there's a picture. I mean, she's coming in second to Leah Thomas. Leah didn't go through the whole thing. I mean, there's still body parts there. I don't mean to be too graphic, but I'm just telling you, okay?

That's not fair. It's not fair. It's not right. And you know what? It was so wrong. It's in part why Trump won this election, and he's winning, winning, winning some more. because the University of Pennsylvania just had to come out. This is great.

And say, you know what? Sorry. We are sorry. We are sorry, Riley. We are sorry to every young woman that had to compete against a transgender because it wasn't fair. But the only reason they did this is because they had Donald Trump breathing down their back saying, you know what?

No more federal. money for sports because what you're doing is against the law. Here's Linda McMahon, head of the Department of EDU, education talking about exactly this. The university will be sending a personal apology to every female athlete who was forced to compete against a man. Woo!

Right? I'm gonna get my own round of applause, you guys. Awesome. And, like, it's sad that we even have to be here. But think of how crazy things were. I mean, Leah Thomas was like the Sports Illustrated athlete of the year. And, oh, we could go on and on. Or maybe it was ESPN, you know, the Disney company that's got its own DEI challenges.

It's still facing Brendan Carr, that investigation he's got going on into Disney and ABC and everything they did. That's not over. Not over. But anyway, it's a good day for America and certainly, right? I want to get to her reaction. She deserves this, right? She took this on in a huge way. And the vitriol that came her way as a young woman being brave enough to stand up to this to say,

hey, something's not right. And what she went through, even as recently as a couple of weeks ago with that Simone gymnast girl trying to tear her down, I mean, that was wrong. really wrong. Here she is. I feel vindicated. I feel like pigs are flying. I feel like hell has frozen over. So it is a fantastic day, of course, for sanity, for common sense. But I think more broadly, for women, for humanity, for the little girl that I'm growing inside of me right now, that I will welcome to the world in just a few weeks. I think of her. I think of her future. That is what Donald Trump and, of course, Secretary McMahon and myself, that is what we are fighting for. So very, very

excited about today's news. I got chills. Like I have chills. Like I, oh. It's really good. It's sad that we had to go through that. It's really, really sad that we had to go through it. And look, it's not over, right?

Like, this is good. UPenn is following through. They're trying to protect women now because they have to. But remember, there's a lot of places that still aren't, even though legally they have to. Consider it the state of Maine. Uh-huh. Right north and New Hampshire, just south of Canada.

I wonder if they need to join Canada or something. Here is the governor of Maine talking with Donald Trump saying no, she is no interest in complying. The NCAA has complied immediately, by the way, that's good. But I understand Maine. Is the Maine here, the governor of Maine? Are you not going to comply with it? Well, we are the federal law. Well, you better do it.

You better do it because you're not going to get any. federal funding at all if you don't. And by the way, your population, even though it's somewhat liberal, although I did very well there, your population doesn't want men playing in women's sports. So you better comply because otherwise you're not getting any federal funding. Every state, good, I'll see you in court. I look forward to that. That should be a real easy one. And enjoy your life after governor because I don't think you'll be in elected politics. It will be an easy one because you know what? I'm going to go back to the Commerce Clause again.

They have the power over. Maine, in part because of the Commerce Clause, because of the Supremacy Clause. Oh, what about equal rights? How about that? How about Title IX? For goodness sakes, dream on, Maine. You keep dreaming on, but you know what? It would be nice if somebody would just do the right thing for a change

rather than having to get forced into it. But, you know, bottom line, winning. Things have to change. they are changing.