Democratic Congresswoman Alexandria Ocasio-Cortez has rejected the Green Party’s presidential ticket, saying it is “predatory” due to the lack of support for transgender athletes in women’s sports.
Ocasio-Cortez posted on
Ocasio-Cortez has cast himself as a staunch defender of transgender rights and has launched a series of attacks on the Green Party, which threatens to take votes from Democrats in Tuesday’s presidential election.
“This ticket is predatory and people deserve better,” Ocasio-Cortez wrote.
She responded to a video that attorney and columnist Olayemi Olurin posted on
Democratic Congresswoman Alexandria Ocasio-Cortez calls the Green Party’s presidential ticket “predatory.”
Lia Thomas (left) became the first trans woman to win an NCAA swimming championship in 2022, one of the most controversial examples of the inclusion of biological males in women’s sports.
“I don’t think biological males should play in women’s sports,” Ware said in the video.
“I think it creates an unfair competitive advantage.”
Ocasio-Cortez has spoken out in support of trans male-to-female athletes who want to compete on women’s sports teams, despite their advantages in strength, speed and agility, and the risk of female athletes being 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 competitors and spectators view the results as unfair.
Republicans have banned trans girls from participating in girls’ sports teams in about 20 states.
Ocasio-Cortez has spoken out against those rules, saying reforms earlier this year to Title IX, a federal anti-discrimination law, did not go far enough to protect gender identity in schools and colleges.
“Targeting trans kids to play sports makes all women, whether transgender or cisgender, less safe.” she posted after a congressional debate on the issue.
“Sex testing is regressive, invasive, discriminatory, and a fundamental violation of our privacy as women and as Americans. This is a shame.’
Ocasio-Cortez is a co-sponsor of the Equality Act, which was proposed in 2019 and brought provisions that would require schools to allow male-to-female athletes to compete on girls’ sports teams.
She also advocates a transgender law.
Her comments on Saturday were not the first time Ocasio-Cortez has labeled the Greens as “predatory.”
She has argued that the presidential candidate, Jill Stein, and Ware are not serious political candidates who will come out during the presidential election and undermine Democratic votes.
Some X users called out Ocasio-Cortez for her “bizarre” choice of words about the Green Party candidate.
Green Party vice presidential candidate Butch Ware (left) and presidential candidate Jill Stein (right) say they’re not just “spoilers” for Democrats.
“If you only show up once every four years to talk to people who are rightfully p****d, but you only show up once every four years to do that, then you don’t mean it,” Ocasio said. -Cortez said in early September.
‘To me it doesn’t read as authentic. It reads as predatory.”
She accused Stein of “poor leadership” for running in presidential elections for “years and years and years and years in a row” to gain publicity without successfully fielding candidates in a down-ballot race.
Ware and Stein have fought back against Ocasio-Cortez in their own X posts.
Ware said he was a “vocal advocate for gay rights” and that his comments in the posted video were “taken out of context and used to portray me as holding a position that I fundamentally reject.”
Democrats succumbed to “fear and desperation” in their tight race between Vice President Kamala Harris and former President Donald Trump and tried to “drive a wedge into the Green Party,” Ware said.
Stein, meanwhile, has branded Ocasio-Cortez the “attack dog du jour” and accused Democrats of being “predatory” by pretending to support a ceasefire between Israel and Hamas when in reality they are “actively financing genocide” and arm’.
“The Democrats are getting scared,” Stein said in her video post.
‘And that should be the case, because who wants to support a genocide? Who wants to vote for a genocide?’
The Green Party has about 244,000 registered members in the U.S., down from its 2004 peak of 319,000, 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 vote.
Democrats have partly blamed Stein for their 2016 candidate Hillary Clinton’s loss to Trump.