Democratic Congresswoman Alexandria Ocasio-Cortez criticized the Green Party’s presidential bid as “predatory” for its lack of support for transgender athletes in women’s sports.
In a post on
Ocasio-Cortez has presented herself as a strong defender of trans rights and has launched a series of attacks against the Green Party, which threatens to take votes away from Democrats in Tuesday’s presidential election.
“This fine is predatory and people deserve better,” Ocasio-Cortez wrote.
She was responding to a video posted on
Democratic Congresswoman Alexandria Ocasio-Cortez calls the Green Party’s presidential candidacy “predatory.”
Lia Thomas (left) became the first trans woman to win an NCAA swimming championship in 2022, one of the most controversial examples of inclusion of biological men in women’s sports.
“I don’t think biological males should play female sports,” Ware said in the video.
“I think it gives an unfair competitive advantage.”
Ocasio-Cortez has defended male-to-female trans athletes who want to compete on women’s sports teams, despite their advantages in strength, speed and agility, and the risk of female athletes getting injured.
When trans athletes compete against women, such as when swimmer Lia Thomas became the first trans woman to win an NCAA swimming championship in 2022, many participants and spectators denounce the results as unfair.
Republicans have banned trans girls from competing on girls’ school sports teams in about two dozen states.
Ocasio-Cortez criticized these rules and said reforms earlier this year to Title IX, a federal anti-discrimination law, did not go far enough to protect gender identity in schools and universities.
“Targeting trans kids to play sports makes all women, whether trans or cisgender, less safe.” published after a debate in Congress on the issue.
‘Sexual testing is regressive, invasive, discriminatory, and a fundamental violation of our privacy as women and as Americans. This is shameful.”
Ocasio-Cortez is a co-sponsor of the Equality Act, which was proposed in 2019 and included provisions that would force schools to allow male to female athletes to compete on women’s sports teams.
He has also advocated for a transgender bill of rights.
Her comments Saturday were not the first time Ocasio-Cortez called the Greens “predators.”
She has argued that her presidential candidate, Jill Stein, and Ware are not serious political candidates who emerge out of nowhere in presidential election years, undermining Democratic votes.
Some X users criticized Ocasio-Cortez for her “strange” choice of words about the Green Party candidate.
Green Party vice presidential candidate Butch Ware (left) and presidential candidate Jill Stein (right) say they are not simply “spoilers” for Democrats.
“If all you do is show up once every four years to talk to people who are justifiably angry, but you only show up once every four years to do that, you’re not serious,” Ocasio. -Cortez said at the beginning of September.
‘To me, it doesn’t seem authentic. It looks predatory.
He accused Stein of “bad leadership” because he had run “for years and years and years and years on end” in presidential races to gain publicity without running successful candidates in down elections.
Ware and Stein have counterattacked Ocasio-Cortez in their own X posts.
Ware said he was a “vocal supporter of gay rights” and that his comments in the posted video had been “taken out of context and used to portray me as someone who holds views that I fundamentally reject.”
Democrats were succumbing to “fear and desperation” in their tight race between Vice President Kamala Harris and former President Donald Trump and were trying to “drive a wedge into the Green Party,” Ware said.
Meanwhile, Stein called Ocasio-Cortez the “attack dog of the day” and accused Democrats of being “predators” for pretending to support a ceasefire between Israel and Hamas when in reality they are “actively funding and weaponizing genocide.” “.
“Democrats are scared,” Stein said in his video.
‘And they should be, because who wants to support a genocide? Who wants to vote for genocide?
The Green Party has about 244,000 registered members across the United States, down from its peak of 319,000 in 2004, and has never had a candidate win federal office.
The party has fielded presidential candidates in every election since 1996, but has never won more than 2.7 percent of the popular vote.
Democrats have partly blamed Stein for the loss of their 2016 candidate, Hillary Clinton, to Trump.