Rep. Jasmine Crockett says Trump's transgender athlete ban 'doesn't protect women,' faces intense backlash

Most Democrats person opted to stay soundless successful effect to President Donald Trump's executive order banning transgender athletes from women's and girls sports. 

But 1 Democrat spoke retired against it and was heavy criticized. 

Rep. Jasmine Crockett, D-Texas, spoke retired against Trump's enforcement bid successful an X station Wednesday. 

"On National Girls & Women successful Sports Day, Trump is:  - banning trans kids from playing sports - trying to chopped Title IX women’s and girls’ athletics grants -removing references to women, pistillate and equality connected authorities websites," Crockett wrote. "LET ME BE CLEAR This. Doesn't. Protect. Women."

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Crockett's disapproval of Trump drew fierce backlash from different X users. 

"Nothing successful your station is true. Transgender kids are not banned from playing sports - they conscionable person to play connected teams and successful leagues wherever their enactment matches the different athletes. Or they tin signifier their ain leagues. This was done to support men from dominating women's sports by pretending to beryllium women. AKA 'protecting women's sports.'" 1 idiosyncratic wrote. 

"There were nary Title IX grants cut. Any references to ‘women, pistillate & equality’ removed from immoderate .gov website were removed successful the discourse of transgender/gender ideology."

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One idiosyncratic suggested Crockett's stance was misogynistic. 

"Why bash you attraction much astir the feelings of immoderate biologic males implicit the rights and information of women? There's a sanction for it erstwhile men are prioritized implicit women and fixed much rights. I was taught that's misogyny," the idiosyncratic wrote.

Another idiosyncratic pointed retired that information suggests astir Americans, including Democrats, reason transgender inclusion successful women's sports, and that factored into the 2024 predetermination results. 

"This perfectly protects women, and this is what the bulk of the state voted for," the idiosyncratic wrote. 

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A caller New York Times/Ipsos survey recovered the immense bulk of Americans, including a bulk of Democrats, don't deliberation transgender athletes should beryllium permitted to vie successful women's sports. Of the 2,128 radical polled, 79% said biologic males who place arsenic women should not beryllium allowed to enactment successful women's sports. 

Of the 1,025 radical who identified arsenic Democrats oregon leaning Democrat, 67% said transgender athletes should not beryllium allowed to vie with women.

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Shortly aft November's election, a national exit poll conducted by the Concerned Women for America legislative enactment committee recovered that 70% of mean voters saw the contented of "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."

Crockett antecedently called her authorities and Florida "deplorable" during a December proceeding connected transgender athletes implicit blimpish authorities by lawmakers successful those states. Her comments came during a House Oversight and Accountability Subcommittee connected Health Care and Financial Services proceeding to sermon projected changes to Title IX by the Biden medication that would redefine intersexual favoritism to see sex identity.

"When lawmakers similar this are truthful acold retired of interaction with what women need, we spot states pushing back," Crockett said of her Republican colleague, U.S. Rep. Glenn Grothman of Wisconsin, who spoke earlier her. "At slightest states that volition let you to propulsion back. I'm from the authorities of Texas, and, of course, they don't privation you to ever person an accidental to rise your dependable successful the authorities of Texas.

"In fact, Ms. Perry, I cognize your organization, the Heritage Foundation, loves Texas. Oh, they emotion Texas," she added. "They ever sending america immoderate nonsense bills that someway acceptable this state connected the incorrect trajectory. They nonstop them to Texas. They nonstop them to Florida. Every deplorable authorities that we tin deliberation about, they usually coming retired of yall's deliberation tank." 

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