“It’s huge.” Riley Gaines described the action taken by Oklahoma Governor Kevin Stitt on Tuesday after he signed an executive order putting the Women’s Bill of Rights into effect. The measure defines men and women by their biological sex at birth. It clarifies situations where men and women are separated, like on athletic teams and in locker rooms.

The measure clearly defines gender as biological sex and it defines women-only spaces. Former NCAA athlete Riley Gaines witnessed the signing and later did an interview with the governor on Fox News.

Joining “The Faulkner Focus” shortly after, Stitt sat beside former NCAA athlete Riley Gaines to discuss how the executive order will solidify distinctions between men and women based on sex and identify spaces in which they are to be kept separate, including locker rooms, restrooms, rape crisis centers, domestic violence shelters and prisons, among others.

“It’s even weird to say that we have to do this in today’s age,” Stitt said, “… but to us, it’s just common sense that we have to do this to define what a woman is and protect women. 50 years ago, Title XI was signed. Now it feels like the left is trying to erode that.”

The executive order will bring “clarity, certainty, and uniformity” to state laws. It will also prevent situations like the ones Gaines and other female swimmers underwent during their college swimming careers. She was forced to share a locker room with transgender athlete Lia Thomas. Riley and the other swimmers had to undress in front of him in the locker room. Recently, Paula Scanlan, a former University of Pennsylvania swimmer, testified in a Congressional hearing that she was being forced to share a locker room which “adversely impacted” women suffering from sexual trauma, including herself.

These young women are brave to come forward with their stories. They face strong negative reactions from transgender activists and those who accuse them of being transphobic and of being bigots. The truth is that women are entitled to privacy and men have no place in a women’s locker room. When he signed the bill, Stitt said, “We’re taking a stand against this out of control gender ideology that is eroding the very foundation of our society.”

His leadership sets an example for all Governors and elected officials. Rather than sitting idly by, he took action . This is a victory worth celebrating and a small step to defeating the war on women. Thanks @GovStitt !!!

— Riley Gaines (@Riley_Gaines_) August 1, 2023

Young women like Riley and Paula are bravely fighting back against the transgender activists war on women. The feminists of days past have decided to step back and remain on the sidelines as young women are left to do the fighting. The battle to bring about Title IX decades ago now seems like ancient history. Was it for nothing? It appears that feminists are ok with the elimination of women’s sports. They are fine with sharing a restroom with a male with no expectation of privacy.

Stitt and his wife have three daughters. I think that makes a difference. Parents of girls will have to be the ones to rise up and say enough is enough. It is wrong to expect girls and young women to share locker rooms and restrooms with boys and men. It’s not just a matter of decency and basic human rights to privacy, it is also a safety issue. Men who are not really transgender are a physical threat to women in such vulnerable circumstances.

“I have three daughters,” Stitt told Faulkner. “My wife and I’ve been married for 25 years. I did this for them. I did it for Riley Gaines. I did it for all the young girls in the state of Oklahoma. It’s just absolutely wrong for them to be forced to change and undress in what should be a safe locker room as they’re competing.”

“Forget the fact that they’re having to compete against a biological male, but then to change in the locker room. I mean, this is just craziness, and it’s not going to happen in Oklahoma.”

Riley spoke about the threats that she and others faced in an attempt to keep them silent.

“This is bigger than universities that we’re seeing in academia. It’s in corporate America, it’s in the media, the amount of emotional blackmail they put us through to keep us silent. And it was effective,” she said.

“They told us we wouldn’t get a job, we wouldn’t get into grad school, we would lose our friends, we would lose our scholarship. They told us that we would be murderers if we spoke out because we would be complicit in a potential death. That’s how they kept us silent. That’s why it feels as if and it seems as if I’ve been one of the few voices fighting for this…”

Governor Stitt is providing leadership on this issue.

The usual suspects in the media frame the executive order in the worst possible ways, of course. The Associated Press, for example, calls it an anti-trans executive order. Their article describes Independent Women’s Voice, a conservative women’s think tank, as “an anti-trans group.” How about calling it a pro-woman executive order? The Independent Women’s Voice is a pro-woman group but it supports conservative women so it must be slammed. It’s all so predictable and it’s sickening.

The executive order defines female and male. Someone alert Justice Ketanji Brown Jackson.

“Oklahomans are fed up with attempts to confuse the word ‘woman’ and turn it into some kind of ambiguous definition that harms real women.”

In addition to requiring state agencies and boards to define the words “female” and “male” to correspond with the person’s sex assigned at birth, the executive order also includes definitions for the words “man,” “boy,” “woman,” “girl,” “father” and “mother.” The order specifically defines a female as a “person whose biological reproductive system is designed to produce ova” and a male as a “person whose biological reproductive system is designed to fertilize the ova of a female.”

Now that Governor Stitt has opened the door, look for other red state governors to follow.