LGBTQ activist has a deer-in-headlights moment when Piers Morgan asks her to explain what “non-binary” actually means.
When she can’t, she calls it “uncomfortably personal.” Then Riley Gaines finishes her off.
PIERS MORGAN: “I just want to ask, what do you mean by non-binary?”
ACTIVIST: “Um when I say I’m non-binary, I’m expressing my identity in a way that I have the right to do.”
PIERS MORGAN: “What does that mean? There’s only one of you.”
ACTIVIST: “Actually, they/them has been the collective they has been used to refer to individual people for centuries and still is. So, um, I mean, if you don’t understand basic grammar, that’s on you.”
PIERS MORGAN: “I’ve got to be honest with you, I don’t understand the concept of what non-binary means… There’s one of you sitting here, and you look to me female. You’re a female?”
ACTIVIST: “If you don’t understand what non-binary means…”
PIERS MORGAN: “Are you a female?”
ACTIVIST: “…then I’m not sure you’re in a position to lead a debate…”
PIERS MORGAN: “But if you can’t explain it in simple language, then what’s the point?”
ACTIVIST: “I don’t think that I’m here to discuss the contents of my identity.”
PIERS MORGAN: “You raised this whole thing. I didn’t mention anything about what you were. You did.”
ACTIVIST: “This has really become uncomfortably personal.”
PIERS MORGAN: “Has it? You said it, not me…”
That’s when Riley Gaines dropped the hammer.
RILEY GAINES: “If you think this is uncomfortably personal, try undressing in a locker room with a 6’4 naked man.”