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Democratic Congresswoman Alexandria Ocasio-Cortez attacked the Green Party presidential ticket after the party’s vice presidential nominee, Butch Ware, spoke out in opposition to transgender athletes in girls’s sports activities.
“I don’t assume that organic males ought to play in feminine sports activities,” Ware mentioned in a video posted to X by lawyer and columnist Olayemi Olurin. “I feel it offers an unfair, you realize, aggressive benefit.”
Ocasio-Cortez responded to the video, labeling the ticket “predatory.”
“Like I mentioned. This ticket is predatory and folks deserve higher,” she wrote.
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Ocasio-Cortez has taken a partisan stance in her help of transgender rights and protections.
After the Biden-Harris administration handed a sweeping reform to Title IX in April that aimed to offer extra safety for gender id in colleges and universities, Ocasio-Cortez argued the reform didn’t go far sufficient in favor of transgender folks and, particularly, transgender athletes who wish to compete in girls’s sports activities.
“Absolutely no cause for the Biden admin to do that. It is indefensible and embarrassing. The admin can nonetheless stroll this again, and they need to. It’s a shame,” Ocasio wrote in response to a report that the change would enable colleges to bar transgender athletes from girls’s and women sports activities.
Rep. Alexandria Ocasio-Cortez, D-N.Y. (Drew Angerer/Getty Images)
The administration issued a sweeping rule that clarified that Title IX’s ban on “intercourse” discrimination in colleges covers discrimination based mostly on gender id, sexual orientation and “being pregnant or associated situations.”
And whereas the administration insisted the regulation doesn’t handle athletic eligibility, a number of specialists offered proof to Fox News Digital in June that it will finally put extra organic males in girls’s sports activities.
Still, that wasn’t adequate for Ocasio-Cortez.
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Ocasio-Cortez has additionally co-sponsored the Equality Act, which was proposed in 2019 and has had revisions that “would pressure public colleges to permit biologically male athletes who determine as transgender on women sports activities groups.”
In March 2023, Democrats, together with Ocasio-Cortez, advocated for a transgender invoice of rights, proposing a decision “recognizing that it’s the obligation of the Federal Government to develop and implement a Transgender Bill of Rights.”
The decision particularly referred to as for a federal regulation to make sure that organic males can “take part in sports activities on groups and in applications that finest align with their gender id [and] use college amenities that finest align with their gender id.”
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Ocasio-Cortez has attacked the Green Party all through the election cycle, beforehand calling it “predatory.” The congresswoman spoke out in opposition to the party and its presidential candidate, Jill Stein, throughout an Instagram Q&A in early September.
“If all you do is present up as soon as each 4 years to talk to people who find themselves justifiably pissed off, however you’re simply exhibiting up as soon as each 4 years to do this, you’re not severe. To me, it doesn’t learn as genuine. It reads as predatory,” she mentioned.
“What I’ve an issue with is the truth that if you happen to’re working for president, you’re the de facto chief of your party. And if you happen to run for years and years and years and years in a row, and your party has not grown and also you don’t add metropolis council seats, and also you don’t add down-ballot candidates, and also you don’t add state electeds, that’s unhealthy management. That, to me, is what’s upsetting.”
Stein responded to Ocasio-Cortez in her personal social media put up on X.
“Clearly AOC is the assault canine du jour, and the Democrats are working scared. And they need to be, as a result of who needs to help a genocide? Who needs to vote for a genocide?” Stein mentioned within the video. “If there’s something that’s predatory right here, it’s saying that your candidate is ‘working tirelessly for a cease-fire’ when truly they’re actively funding and arming genocide and really refusing to even take into account an arms embargo, which might deliver the genocide to a screeching halt.”
The Green Party has about 244,000 registered members nationally, down from its peak in 2004 at 319,000, and has by no means had a candidate win a federal workplace. The party has fielded presidential candidates in each election since 1996 and has by no means earned greater than 2.7% of the favored vote
Ralph Nader earned that vote whole in 2000 and was extensively criticized as a “spoiler” within the tight race that finally went to Republican George W. Bush.
Democrats have additionally mentioned Stein’s candidacy in 2016 resulted in Trump upsetting Hillary Clinton.
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