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2023-12-06 10:42:44 UTC
"Squad" Rep. Alexandria Ocasio-Cortez, D-N.Y., claimed that "all"
underage women will face "genital examinations" if biological men
are barred from women's sports.
Ocasio-Cortez made her claim during the Tuesday House Oversight
Subcommittee on Health hearing featuring NCAA swimming legend and
women's sports advocate Riley Gaines.
The New York Democrat said there were several proposals looking to
"marginalize" transgender Americans before claiming during her
questioning that women would have to get their pants checked if
someone disbelieves their stated gender.
"We are talking about opening up all women and girls to genital
examinations when they are underage, potentially just because
someone can point to someone and say, I donât think you are a girl,"
she claimed.
"And we're saying this in an environment of a post-Dobbs America,
where states are criminalizing access to abortion and want nothing
more than data on women to figure out when, who's getting a
menstrual cycle, who doesn't have one, and we're supposed to believe
this is going to make us better and safer?"
"I think not, and, per usual, I don't believe we're sitting here on
a panel of men that has actually thought about the biology and
privacy consequences of all women, trans or cisgendered," the
"Squad" Democrat added.
Ocasio-Cortez's claim comes almost a year after the Ohio state
Senate removed a controversial provision from a state House proposal
barring biological men from competing against women, which would
have required "internal and external" exams to confirm a student-
athlete's gender.
Ohio Senate Republicans replaced the provision with a requirement
for student-athletes whose gender is in question to "present a copy
of the participant's original birth certificate" to compete.
"Iâm not sure why thatâs in the bill, itâs unnecessary," State
Senate President Matt Huffman said about the genital inspection
provision in June 2022.
"All of these tests can be done with a simple DNA swab," Huffman
added.
Tuesday's hearing saw fireworks from the get-go as Gaines, an
outspoken advocate of keeping women's sports limited to biological
women, fired back at Ocasio-Cortez's fellow "Squad"-mate, Rep.
Summer Lee, D-Pa.
Lee called Gaines' testimony, as well as the testimonies of the
other women leaders looking to restrict women's sports to biological
women, "transphobic" in her opening remarks.
Gaines blasted Lee, the ranking member of the House Oversight
Subcommittee on Health, after the Squad member took her shot at the
witnesses' testimony.
"There's a place for everybody to play sports in this country,"
Gaines said, noting transgender Americans were included in her view.
"But unsafe, unfair and discriminatory practices must stop."
"Inclusion cannot be prioritized over safety and fairness," the
former NCAA swimmer concluded in her opening remarks. "And ranking
member Lee, if my testimony makes me âtransphobic,â then I believe
your opening monologue makes you a misogynist."
https://news.yahoo.com/riley-gaines-hits-back-squad-215754999.html
underage women will face "genital examinations" if biological men
are barred from women's sports.
Ocasio-Cortez made her claim during the Tuesday House Oversight
Subcommittee on Health hearing featuring NCAA swimming legend and
women's sports advocate Riley Gaines.
The New York Democrat said there were several proposals looking to
"marginalize" transgender Americans before claiming during her
questioning that women would have to get their pants checked if
someone disbelieves their stated gender.
"We are talking about opening up all women and girls to genital
examinations when they are underage, potentially just because
someone can point to someone and say, I donât think you are a girl,"
she claimed.
"And we're saying this in an environment of a post-Dobbs America,
where states are criminalizing access to abortion and want nothing
more than data on women to figure out when, who's getting a
menstrual cycle, who doesn't have one, and we're supposed to believe
this is going to make us better and safer?"
"I think not, and, per usual, I don't believe we're sitting here on
a panel of men that has actually thought about the biology and
privacy consequences of all women, trans or cisgendered," the
"Squad" Democrat added.
Ocasio-Cortez's claim comes almost a year after the Ohio state
Senate removed a controversial provision from a state House proposal
barring biological men from competing against women, which would
have required "internal and external" exams to confirm a student-
athlete's gender.
Ohio Senate Republicans replaced the provision with a requirement
for student-athletes whose gender is in question to "present a copy
of the participant's original birth certificate" to compete.
"Iâm not sure why thatâs in the bill, itâs unnecessary," State
Senate President Matt Huffman said about the genital inspection
provision in June 2022.
"All of these tests can be done with a simple DNA swab," Huffman
added.
Tuesday's hearing saw fireworks from the get-go as Gaines, an
outspoken advocate of keeping women's sports limited to biological
women, fired back at Ocasio-Cortez's fellow "Squad"-mate, Rep.
Summer Lee, D-Pa.
Lee called Gaines' testimony, as well as the testimonies of the
other women leaders looking to restrict women's sports to biological
women, "transphobic" in her opening remarks.
Gaines blasted Lee, the ranking member of the House Oversight
Subcommittee on Health, after the Squad member took her shot at the
witnesses' testimony.
"There's a place for everybody to play sports in this country,"
Gaines said, noting transgender Americans were included in her view.
"But unsafe, unfair and discriminatory practices must stop."
"Inclusion cannot be prioritized over safety and fairness," the
former NCAA swimmer concluded in her opening remarks. "And ranking
member Lee, if my testimony makes me âtransphobic,â then I believe
your opening monologue makes you a misogynist."
https://news.yahoo.com/riley-gaines-hits-back-squad-215754999.html