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A pugnacious agelong for Rep. Alexandria Ocasio-Cortez, D-N.Y., got worse Tuesday erstwhile she watched members of her enactment ballot for a measure she attacked astatine the disbursal of widespread mockery.
Ocasio-Cortez's viral rant against the Protection of Women and Girls successful Sports Act wasn't capable to person Democratic allies Henry Cuellar and Vicente Gonzalez, some of Texas, to ballot against the bill. Cuellar and Gonzalez joined 218 House Republicans who voted for the bill that seeks to forestall federally funded acquisition institutions from allowing transgender athletes to vie successful girls and women's sports.
For Ocasio-Cortez, the conception of Democratic congressmen voting for a Republican-backed measure earlier President-elect Trump adjacent returns to bureau suggests her enactment is "not successful bully shape."
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"We can't beryllium ninnies astir this," Ocasio-Cortez told The Independent Tuesday. "These are conscionable the aboriginal days. Trump hasn't adjacent been sworn successful yet, and if a small bitty sports measure was gonna marque Dems defect, we're not successful bully shape."
Ocasio-Cortez advised Democrats not to beryllium "ninnies" the aforesaid time she delivered a widely-mocked tirade that contained aggregate unsubstantiated claims and unfinished sentences. Her rant prompted aggregate viral societal media responses that labeled her "the dumbest idiosyncratic successful congress."
For Ocasio-Cortez, it marks a mediocre commencement to 2025 aft a unsmooth 2024. Despite winning re-election to her House spot successful New York, Ocasio-Cortez watched members of her coalition, "the Squad," suffer their seats, including Jamaal Bowman successful New York and Cori Bush successful Missouri.
Ocasio-Cortez besides mislaid successful her bid to go the apical Democrat connected the House Oversight and Accountability Committee, getting passed implicit by Rep. Gerry Connolly, D-Va.
What's more, Ocasio-Cortez was often the taxable of viral societal media mockery, often for her unchanging stance connected transgender inclusion successful women's and girls sports.
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In November, Ocasio-Cortez reshared a video of Green Party vice statesmanlike campaigner Butch Ware speaking retired against transgender inclusion successful women's sports with a caption that said, "This summons is predatory and radical merit better." The station prompted heated backlash connected societal media.
"AOC says it’s predatory behaviour to not privation men competing successful women’s sports. To AOC, acknowledging biologic world is ‘predatory.’ You cognize what’s really predatory? Sexualizing children and normalizing pedophilia," blimpish influencer and erstwhile NCAA swimmer Riley Gaines wrote connected X portion posting a Fox News Digital nonfiction astir Ocasio-Cortez’s comments.
The mockery of Ocasio-Cortez picked up weeks aft the predetermination erstwhile X users discovered she nary longer includes her pronouns "she/her" successful her bio.
Ocasio-Cortez is 1 of galore salient Democrats who stay firmly supportive of transgender inclusion successful women's sports, adjacent arsenic the contented proved to beryllium a vulnerability for Democrats successful November's election.
Many Democrats who spoke retired against the measure Tuesday did not reason connected the premise that transgender athletes should beryllium allowed successful women's and girls sports. Instead, they argued the measures preventing transgender inclusion volition taxable girls to genital examinations and intersexual predators contempt nary connection successful the measure that would suggest genital examinations for girls successful sports.
Ocasio-Cortez included that unsubstantiated assertion successful her rant Tuesday but gave a shout-out to transgender athletes erstwhile she yelled "Trans girls are girls!" connected the House of Representatives floor.
Ocasio-Cortez has antecedently co-sponsored the Equality Act, which was projected successful 2019 and has had revisions that "would force nationalist schools to let biologically antheral athletes who place arsenic transgender connected girls sports teams." In March 2023, Democrats, including Ocasio-Cortez, projected a resolution "recognizing that it is the work of the Federal Government to make and instrumentality a Transgender Bill of Rights."
Unlike Ocasio-Cortez, different Democratic House representatives person publically pulled backmost connected their enactment for transgender inclusion, including Rep. Seth Moulton, D-Mass.; Rep. Colin Allred, D-Texas; and Rep. Tom Suozzi, D-N.Y. Still, each of those Democrats voted against the measure Tuesday.
A national exit poll conducted by the Concerned Women for America legislative enactment committee recovered that 70% of mean voters viewed "Donald Trump’s absorption to transgender boys and men playing girls' and women’s sports and of transgender boys and men utilizing girls' and women’s bathrooms" arsenic important to them. And 6% said it was the astir important contented of all, portion 44% said it was "very important."
In June, a survey conducted by NORC astatine the University of Chicago asked respondents to measurement successful connected whether transgender athletes of some sexes should beryllium permitted to enactment successful sports leagues that correspond to their preferred sex individuality alternatively of their biologic sex.
In that survey, 65% answered that it should either beryllium ne'er oregon seldom allowed. When those polled were asked specifically astir big transgender pistillate athletes competing connected women’s sports teams, 69% opposed it.
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