AOC was criticized for her Transgender Awareness Week post by sports activists
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Rep. Alexandria Ocasio-Cortez, D-N.Y., has come under fire on social media for a post celebrating Transgender Awareness Week.
Many criticisms have been leveled by activists fighting to protect women’s sports from transgender male athletes.
Figures who will speak publicly are former USA gymnast and XX-XY Athletics co-founder Jennifer See, former UPenn women’s swimmer and conservative influencer Paula Scanlan.
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Ocasio-Cortez has come under massive criticism for her advocacy on behalf of transgender athletes in women’s and girls’ sports in 2024 and early 2025. The congresswoman then sparked a viral feud with conservative activist Riley Gaines at the end of October.
Rep. Alexandria Ocasio-Cortez, D-N.Y., speaks during a rally in New York City on May 1, 2025. (AP Photo/Angelina Katsanis)
In a series of
In January, Ocasio-Cortez was mocked for speaking hysterically on the House floor about protecting human rights. Women and girls in sports represents. In a two-minute tirade, he included false and unsubstantiated claims. Her speech ended with the unsubstantiated claim that “CEOs love this bill” because it relates to the California wildfires.
Ocasio-Cortez opened her argument by pointing to Republicans’ history of voting against the Violence Against Women Act and the patently false claim in reference to their stance on abortion rights.
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Ocasio-Cortez was also one of several Democrats who pushed unfounded claims that the bill would subject young girls to sexual predators.
Rep. Alexandria Ocasio-Cortez (D-N.Y.) speaks to the media outside the Thomas P. O’Neill Jr. Office Building on February 28, 2024, in Washington, D.C. (Jamal Countess/Getty Images for the Congressional Integrity Project)
“And why? To open gender screening, and yes, genital screening to young girls in this country, in the name of attacking trans girls!” Ocasio-Cortez continued.
Nowhere in the draft law did it mention that girls or women would be subject to genital examination in order to participate in sports. However, Ocasio-Cortez, along with House Minority Leader Hakeem Jeffries and other Democrats opposing him, have cited that possibility as the primary argument for opposing the law.
The argument led to backlash from voters in both parties, including prominent Rutgers law professor Gary Francione who has been a lifelong Democrat dating back to the 1970s. Francione previously told Fox News Digital that he canceled his party registration in response to Ocasio-Cortez, and suggested other Democrats could follow suit.
“I can confidently say of the people I know who are Democrats that I’ve talked to, the vast majority of them are very dissatisfied with all of these things and feel like the party has lost its way,” Francione said. “I know a couple who said they would do it [unregister]”.
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Earlier in January, A New York Times/Ipsos Poll It found that the vast majority of Americans, including a majority of Democrats, do not believe transgender athletes should be allowed to compete in women’s sports.
Of the 2,128 people who participated, 79% said biological males who identify as women should not be allowed to participate in women’s sports. Of the 1,025 people who identified as Democratic or leaned Democratic, 67% said transgender athletes should not be allowed to compete with women.
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