Rep. Alexandria Ocasio-Cortez, D-N.Y., was once again the subject of a viral roasting campaign after an unhinged rant on the House floor Tuesday.
Ocasio-Cortez spoke out against the Protecting Women and Girls in Sports Act in a two-minute tirade that included false and unsubstantiated claims. His speech ended with an unexplained assertion that “CEOs love this bill” in regards to California’s ongoing wildfires.
The bill ultimately passed and will now head to the Senate after all 216 House Republicans voted for it, along with just two Democrats. Meanwhile, 206 Democrats, including Ocasio-Cortez, voted against the bill.
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Rep. Alexandria Ocasio-Cortez, D-N.Y., speaks during a rally for the Biden-Harris presidential campaign at the Fremont Country Club Thursday, June 20, 2024, in Las Vegas. (Ellen Schmidt/Las Vegas Review-Journal/Tribune News Service via Getty Images)
Ocasio-Cortez opened her argument by referencing Republicans’ history of voting against the “Violence Against Women Act” and an apparent false claim in reference to their stance on abortion rights.
“Republicans who have consistently voted against violence against women are taking action, who have taken away all women’s rights to choose and control their own bodies, who, as women bleed in parking lots across the country, stand there, allowing them to die, they now want to pretend today that they care about women!” Ocasio-Cortez said.
Abortion is currently protected by law in 21 states and the District of Columbia, and President-elect Trump has repeatedly insisted that under his administration, the right to abortion would be left to the discretion of the states .
Ocasio-Cortez was also one of several Democrats who made unsubstantiated claims that the law would subject young girls to sexual predators.
“And why? To open up gender, and yes, genital exams to little girls in this country, supposedly in the name of an attack on trans girls!” Ocasio-Cortez continued.
Nowhere in the bill does it say that girls or women would be subject to a genital exam in order to participate in sports. However, Ocasio-Cortez, along with House Minority Leader Hakeem Jeffries and other Democrats who oppose it, have cited this possibility as their main argument for opposing the law.
“The majority currently says there is no place in this bill that says it opens the way for genital exams. Well, here’s the problem, there is no enforcement mechanism in this bill. And when there is no enforcement mechanism, you open the door to every enforcement mechanism.” Ocasio-Cortez said.
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On election morning, Congresswoman Alexandria Ocasio-Cortez campaigns for re-election on November 8, 2022, in the Woodside neighborhood of Queens, New York. (Andrew Lichtenstein/Corbis via Getty Images)
The bill provides that operating, sponsoring, or facilitating sporting programs or activities that permit male individuals to participate in programs or activities that are intended for women or girls.
According to the bill, Sex is based on an individual’s reproductive biology and genetics at birth.
Ocasio-Cortez has consistently championed trans inclusion in women’s sports and has previously used the word “predator” to describe those who oppose it. In November, Ocasio-Cortez re-shared a video of Green Party vice presidential candidate Butch Ware speaking out against trans inclusion in women’s sports, with a caption that read: “This post is predatory and people deserve better.
And now, despite many figures in her party and liberal media publicly disavowing their support for trans inclusion, Ocasio-Cortez is unwavering in her stance on what a woman or girl is.
“Trans girls are girls!” Ocasio-Cortez said during Tuesday’s hearing.
Ocasio-Cortez then began with a series of incoherent and unfinished sentences on the issue.
“And for all the people who are so worried, please worry about women for the first time I’m seeing. I don’t know about y’all. I don’t know who’s been to gym class lately, but Girls, even if you think there are only two genders, I’ve always played mixed sports!” » she said, before moving on to another point.
Rep. Alexandria Ocasio-Cortez (D-NY) speaks during a press conference at Jacobi Hospital in the Morris Park neighborhood on June 3, 2021, in the Bronx borough of New York. (Michael M. Santiago/Getty Images)
Ocasio-Cortez’s next point was to warn that the bill could result in an appreciation of traditional femininity.
“What this also opens the door to is women trying to display a very specific type of femininity for the very type of men who are writing this bill, and to open up the question of who is a woman because of her appearance,” he added. how we present ourselves, and yes, what we choose to do with our bodies,” she said.
The bill does not address anything about how biological females dress, present themselves, or any potential anatomical or bodily decisions.
Ocasio-Cortez concluded her speech by saying the bill is “loved” by “bigots” and “bullies,” before establishing its inexplicable connection to CEOs and the California wildfires.
“The bigots love this bill. The bullies love this bill, but so do the CEOs. Because Los Angeles is on fire right now, and that’s the No. 1 priority of this majority,” he said. -she declared before leaving the podium.
Ocasio-Cortez faced heavy criticism on social media for her tirade later Tuesday.
Ocasio-Cortez previously co-sponsored the Equality Act, which was proposed in 2019 and underwent revisions that would “require public schools to allow biologically male athletes who identify as transgender in women’s sports teams.
In March 2023, Democrats, including Ocasio-Cortez, advocated for a transgender bill of rights, proposing a resolution “recognizing that it is the duty of the federal government to develop and implement a Transgender Bill of Rights.”
However, the issue of preventing trans inclusion has now become a bipartisan priority, on which Republicans and Trump have simply taken the lead.
