Tom Tiffany Says Wisconsin Needs Common Sense on Girls’ Sports & Private Spaces

Added: 2026-05-18

[00:00:00]Well, well, thank you for joining me, the future governor of Wisconsin, current congressman for Wisconsin in the seventh district. And we've we've been spending a lot of time together because of all that's going on in your district.

[00:00:15]Uh if you haven't heard about what's happening in New Richmond, you're living under a rock because it's it's a viral sensation.

[00:00:23]Why do you think this has become such a a huge issue across the country? what's happening in a very small rural conservative town in Wisconsin.

[00:00:35]>> Well, first of all, thanks to Monster Liberty for engaging on this. And you know, you've got a small town near Richmond, Wisconsin, where you have a brave, what is she, 17?

[00:00:46]>> She just turned 17. Ella Fry.

[00:00:48]>> Ella Fry. A brave 17-year-old that said this is unacceptable. which most people in America and Wisconsin agree with that boys should not be going in girls bathrooms and it takes a brave 17-year-old to bring it to everyone's attention. We really appreciate that Moms for Liberty has elevated this issue and made it clear this should not be happening.

[00:01:09]>> Well, what was the good news that was announced last month uh by the Trump administration?

[00:01:15]>> So, in regards to um not allowing that to happen, correct?

[00:01:20]>> Yes. and they announced that there would be a title n investigation. Um the office of civil rights uh put out I mean we were were really shocked because there are some there are some complaints that had been sitting for 2 years. This catapulted but it did so because the parents and the students all spoke out.

[00:01:43]Now, we were able to elevate it, but it was the parents that went to the school board meeting and the girl the girls that lined up and and then we had Wisconsin Institute for Law and Liberty come in and say, "Hey, we've got an alternate bathroom policy which would still allow for the girls to have some privacy." But that school board said, "No, they're too much like Minnesota."

[00:02:05]And as you have said many years on the campaign trail, don't Minnesota my Wisconsin.

[00:02:10]>> Don't Minnesota our Wisconsin. and let's get rid of Minnesota's madness and not allow it to come in over here, which you it clearly is. But um you know, you really hit on it in regards to Title 9.

[00:02:22]It is stunning to me, Scari, the people, especially some women that will look the other way in regards to what is one of the biggest violations of Title N equal opportunity for women >> that could possibly be done. And yet they stand up for this insanity.

[00:02:40]>> Yes. Do you know I was just talking to Ella and she lamented that there were teachers and administrators that were bullying her and making fun of her. She said they're all women starlets. That was what really surprised me. I did I thought the women were nice.

[00:02:59]>> Yeah. So, you know, some just want the status quo. They they just want to go along, get along their life. You know, it isn't that big a deal. It is. this is how it worms its way into our culture and society and people don't want it.

[00:03:14]And so for someone like Ella to really elevate it and then have you guys uh at Moms for Liberty and Will really step up here and say this is wrong. This violates Title 9 of the um of federal law and we have to take action in regards to it is really a good thing.

[00:03:36]It's some of it's some of those woke women that you're going to be running against right now. Um I see their social media feed. They are like off the charts. I mean pretty much socialist.

[00:03:51]many of them. Uh so there's like eight candidates that are in on the Democrat side and a few of the women there they have and it doesn't matter whether they're women or men, but especially you think about the women that are voting to not stop this. I mean, they're voting in the legislature to not stop minors getting sex changes or allowing boys to play girls sports. They're voting to allow that type of stuff to happen. It's just crazy.

[00:04:21]In fact, our current governor did something that was shocking even for him. He uh in a budget, he crossed out mother, woman, what what did he call us?

[00:04:36]Inseminated persons. This is this is insanity and it's not popular with Democrats or Republicans in Wisconsin or across this country. They're overplaying their hand. It's a it's an attempt to wipe out that there are two sexes and just really undermine society and our culture. So what's at the core has always been at the core of our society, strong families. And that's something that I talk about all the time out on the campaign trail. We need to make sure that we have strong families because do we want people in Wisconsin to be dependent on their families and their local communities or do we want them dependent on a state government? That's what they want is to have this dependency on government. We are so much stronger as a society when we have strong families and people look to their families to do better in their lives.

[00:05:29]>> Now you you're you've been a great congressman, very conservative. Are you looking forward to a role because there isn't much that you can do as a congressman to affect these issues. You know, you can pass a, you know, you try to pass the legislation for rights, but it it languishes. As governor, what can you do for parents? What can you do to protect women and girls in our state?

[00:05:55]>> It is correct. In our role, our congressional role, often times it is just the messaging that we can do and that's important to elevate the issues.

[00:06:03]>> That's important. But to have the executive authority, like you brought up earlier, to have the Department of Justice federally be able to come in and say, "There's a title a potential title 9 violation. We are going to investigate." It's a similar type of authority that a governor will have on these issues. And you see it with Governor Iver's vetos in regards to um minor sex changes, boys and girls sports, all those issues that we have been talking about. I mean, other issues outside of the cultural ones like China buying our farmland, um no taxes on tips and overtime. He vetos a bill that would allow um workers in Wisconsin to keep more of their money. And so the governor has enormous authority as the executive.

[00:06:49]And that's part of the reason that I'm running Scarlet is I just I want to save the state of Wisconsin. Lifelong resident, I want to save our state. And the governor has a lot to do with that.

[00:06:59]Uh, you know, I in Wisconsin, we hear a lot of Republicans complain nothing's getting done in our state legislature, but they've passed the bills. They passed parent frontal bill of rights.

[00:07:10]They passed bills to protect girls sports, girls bathrooms. They've passed bills to reform education.

[00:07:18]Governor Avers vetos every last one of them. If you were governor, those bills would be passed. You could sign them into law and real change could happen.

[00:07:27]But as long as he's vetoing, I mean, he just he just vetoed legislation that simply would allow for victims of these mutilation surgeries to sue to sue if they were unhappy with the results, which they usually are. Um, and he vetoed a bill that would protect and give um that would protect teachers. It was a teacher safety bill. He vetoed it.

[00:07:54]I thought he I thought he was the governor for education.

[00:07:58]>> I had forgotten about the one in regards to teachers because I talk about that regularly. We should pay good teachers more money. Yep.

[00:08:03]>> We should. But we should also make sure teachers are safe in the classroom. One of the number one reasons teachers are leaving the profession at this point is because they don't feel safe in the uh classroom. And for Governor Ivers to veto that is just wrong. But this goes up and down the line on issues. You are correct that Republicans have sent these bill to bills to him as we're just outlining now.

[00:08:25]>> But also like election integrity bills, things like that. They have sent them to the governor and he refuses to sign them. That is why it's so important that we win the legislature once again in 2026 also because if we can do that, we can get these common sense bills done.

[00:08:40]>> Do you know how much how much money do we have? I know they the Democrats want to suspend it every chance they get, but we we actually have a surplus. If we were to lose um if Democrats were to gain control of their state, that surplus would disappear overnight.

[00:08:56]>> Take a look at Take a look at Minnesota, Scarlet, and it's instructive. It was just a couple years ago, I think their surplus was like $17 billion. Huge surplus. It's gone in Minnesota, and they raised taxes on top of it. So yeah, that surplus can be wiped out fast. I promise the people of the state of Wisconsin, we're going to have fiscal responsibility and we're going to return money to the taxpayers because it's part of a strong famil family's agenda. We put more money in famil family's pockets. They're going to do the right thing with that.

[00:09:28]>> Yes. Uh you know, in New Richmond, a lot of parents have said, "I don't want to be talking about protecting my daughter's safety in bathrooms. That's just a no-brainer. This is ridiculous.

[00:09:39]They don't know what a woman is. I'd rather be talking about the fact that my children are not being properly educated in the public school system. And I've I've heard a lot of horror stories about lack of transparency. Um these school districts just they the teachers are the last to know, not the I mean the parents are the the parents are the last to know, not the first to know. So I started to get involved in New Richmond and St. Croy County because of these issues in the culture war. What I discovered is there are some real issues in education. Um a real abuse of the referendum process. These are things that you can really help to facilitate change in as governor.

[00:10:25]>> Yeah, no doubt about it. I mean another one I would list is the 400-year veto.

[00:10:28]>> Oh my gosh, I forgot about that.

[00:10:30]>> A 400year property tax increase. I mean, think about that's longer than our country has been in existence, 250 years. But, um, you know, I've been in a number of schools here over the last few months, and the schools that are really doing well, and there are schools that are doing well, and we should elevate those that are doing well, they consistently say, we make sure we educate kids. We don't get involved with all the other stuff. And that's when you know you have a school that um the administration and their leadership is is focusing on the right things that we as parents always want. I know my wife and I when our kids were in school, it was always just educate our kids. Don't indoctrinate them.

[00:11:15]>> Yes. Uh the worst when my kids when my oldest kids I still have kids in high school and middle school, but when my two oldest were in high school, the worst that would happen was maybe they talked about climate change and I was a little annoyed. Now, now I mean they're sending our kids home with ridiculous uh homework and I see some of the stuff that my friends are sending me. It's it's outright indoctrination. Um in Virginia right now today they're voting on a referendum. And I'm going to bring this up because it's important in Wisconsin because the minute the Democrats got control of the governor the governor's race at the seat of governor and both houses the next day after the election after that big sweep all these Democrats win and a lot of depressed Virginiaians I have a lot of friends that are in Virginia they say oh we need to uh have fair maps.

[00:12:11]So, it wasn't enough that they won. They want complete one party control. That will happen in Wisconsin.

[00:12:17]>> Yeah. No doubt. Look at our neighbors in Minnesota and Illinois. What has happened to them? People fleeing those states and um educational systems that are that are um are really social engineering, not educational.

[00:12:31]And you will see the same thing in Wisconsin. That's why I always say, let's not adopt Minnesota's madness or Illinois's insanity. We have a chance in 2026 to go the opposite direction and be one of the great states of America because we have so much unlocked potential in Wisconsin, but it's going to take the right leadership to do it and that's what I promise I'll provide.

[00:12:53]>> So, in your district, uh, the seventh district, a lot of the counties border Minnesota and there are a lot of refugees that live in the area. I am very good friends with Jolene. There are a lot of members of for Liberty that they came to Wisconsin to escape that madness and they are very worried that there aren't enough um I guess what I would say normal normies but Wisconsin voters that they even if they vote Democrat they're not well they're not they they just they're not just very they're not very political and they don't understand what the Democrat party has become because they run as moderate. They run as, "Oh yeah, I'm not I'm not good. I'm not so bad." But then the minute they have power, they they tr they show their true side.

[00:13:42]>> The V Virginia example where Governor Spanberger said that, "No, I'm not going to redistrict the state." What's the first thing? One of the first things she does is, "Yeah, give me that redistricting bill so that Democrats have um that they have complete control of their congressional delegation." It's not how uh representative government should work. And that that's what will happen in Wisconsin. All the stuff that you've seen, the craziness will come to Wisconsin if uh we have a Democrat governor and they have full control of legislation.

[00:14:11]>> In fact, there are two congressional seats that the Democrats have been eyeing up for a long time.

[00:14:17]You know, your friends.

[00:14:19]>> Oh, yeah. Certainly Derek Van Warden and Brian Style, they want those worse than anything. But the thing that could happen is that you could see them shoot for like Virginia where they it's a incredible gerrymander and they could try to make it a 26 state certainly a 35 what is basically a 50/50 state at this point. You could see them go really far overboard cuz we saw it in Illinois. We saw it in Massachusetts. Massachusetts is a 45% Republican state. It's 80.

[00:14:54]They they draw these maps that are insane and all roads lead in Wisconsin.

[00:14:58]All roads will lead to Milwaukee or Madison. Somehow no matter how far across the state you are, you're going to have some sort of map that goes into a heavily Democratic area. And that's not fair. That negates that negates the voice and the vote of so many Wisconsin residents that they don't identify with Madison. They don't identify with Milwaukee. You know, we have a great and diverse state. It's huge. And we every community we represent is actually bigger than that. Like really >> and I have found out how big that's the state is as I'm traveling the entire state. But I think the good news is that so we know what the problems are, right?

[00:15:37]So let's fix them. Let's end the 400year property tax increase and let's freeze property taxes. Let's get a hold of the utility rates. Governor Iver's public service commission has rubber stamped $2 billion worth of utility rate increases.

[00:15:52]There's no reason to do that. We don't uh we can keep people of those costs. We should do a red tape reset that um I want to reduce regulations by 25% cuz we're really a excessively regulated state. There's so many things that we can do to make Wisconsin one of the leaders in America. And um we've got a great base to work with and with the right leadership, Wisconsin can really be one of the one of the great states in America. In closing, what is your advice to parents? What's your call to action?

[00:16:26]>> You need to be engaged. You need to be engaged in your kids' education and in your kids' lives because there's others that are trying to take your kids away from you. They are trying to indoctrinate your children. Hate to say that, but it is happening where you have this indoctrination rather than education going on. Make sure that you take control of your kids' lives because it at the very heart of our prosperity, at the very heart of our freedom is strong families. And you only have strong families when you have strong parents that are making sure they're caring for their children. So when you see when you see something that's going wrong, just don't be be like Ella Fry.

[00:17:11]>> Yes. Don't be afraid to find your voice and speak to those that are doing things that are not right.

[00:17:20]>> Thank you. And I really want to thank you, Congressman Tiffany, for your campaign, unlike some other campaigns in the great state of Wisconsin. You are putting these issues to the top, these culture war issues. You're not shying away from them. You're not just talking about them where you throw some red meat. you are publicly talking about these issues that really matter to families, you're not afraid to do so.

[00:17:45]And these are these are the kind of issues that really show the difference between what's normal and what's crazy.

[00:17:52]And we want to be normal. Let's let's Wisconsin nice and we're we're pretty normal bunch. Let's just let's just stick to things that work and protecting our kids and get the boys out of the girls bathroom real easy.

[00:18:06]>> Don't be afraid.

[00:18:07]Thank you so much.

[00:18:10]>> Great. All good.