{"id":1299251,"date":"2022-02-15T06:57:20","date_gmt":"2022-02-15T11:57:20","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/?p=1299251"},"modified":"2022-02-15T12:07:49","modified_gmt":"2022-02-15T17:07:49","slug":"gop-missouri-congresswoman-cheered-condemned-for-ad-saying-womens-sports-are-for-women","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/gop-missouri-congresswoman-cheered-condemned-for-ad-saying-womens-sports-are-for-women\/","title":{"rendered":"GOP Missouri Congresswoman Cheered, Condemned For Ad Saying \u2018Women\u2019s Sports Are For Women\u2019"},"content":{"rendered":"<aside class=\"mashsb-container mashsb-main mashsb-stretched\"><div class=\"mashsb-box\"><div class=\"mashsb-count mash-medium\" style=\"&quot;\"><div class=\"counts mashsbcount\">26<\/div><span class=\"mashsb-sharetext\">SHARES<\/span><\/div><div class=\"mashsb-buttons\"><a class=\"mashicon-facebook mash-medium mash-nomargin mashsb-noshadow\" href=\"https:\/\/www.facebook.com\/sharer.php?u=https%3A%2F%2Fwww.conservativenewsdaily.net%2Fbreaking-news%2Fgop-missouri-congresswoman-cheered-condemned-for-ad-saying-womens-sports-are-for-women%2F\" target=\"_top\" rel=\"nofollow\"><span class=\"icon\"><\/span><span class=\"text\">Facebook<\/span><\/a><a class=\"mashicon-twitter mash-medium mash-nomargin mashsb-noshadow\" href=\"https:\/\/twitter.com\/intent\/tweet?text=&amp;url=https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/?p=1299251&amp;via=ConservNewsDly\" target=\"_top\" rel=\"nofollow\"><span class=\"icon\"><\/span><span class=\"text\">Twitter<\/span><\/a><a class=\"mashicon-subscribe mash-medium mash-nomargin mashsb-noshadow\" href=\"#\" target=\"_top\" rel=\"nofollow\"><span class=\"icon\"><\/span><span class=\"text\">Subscribe<\/span><\/a><div class=\"onoffswitch2 mash-medium mashsb-noshadow\" style=\"display:none\"><\/div><\/div>\n            <\/div>\n                <div style=\"clear:both\"><\/div><\/aside>\n            <!-- Share buttons by mashshare.net - Version: 4.0.47--><div><img decoding=\"async\" src=\"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/wp-content\/uploads\/2022\/02\/GettyImages-604259800-1.jpg\" class=\"ff-og-image-inserted\" alt=\"image\" \/><\/div>\n<p>A Missouri GOP Congresswoman running for the Senate seat currently held by Republican Senator Roy Blunt, who is retiring, released a campaign ad in which she targeted biological men competing in women\u2019s sports, calling them \u201cMen pretending to be women.\u201d<\/p>\n<p>Rep. Vicky Hartzler started her campaign ad by referencing Lia Thomas, the University of Pennsylvania biological man who has precipitated an uproar by competing on the women\u2019s swimming team. Hartzler stated, &nbsp;\u201cMeet William Thomas \u2014 ranked number 462 in men\u2019s swimming. Meet Lia Thomas \u2014 ranked number one in women\u2019s swimming. Only one problem, it\u2019s the same person.\u201d<\/p>\n<p>\u201cSome people are afraid to talk about it,\u201d she continued. \u201cNot me. I\u2019m Vicky Hartzler, I ran and coached girls\u2019 track, and I won\u2019t look away while woke liberals destroy women\u2019s sports. Women\u2019s sports are for women. Not men pretending to be women.\u201d<\/p>\n<blockquote class=\"twitter-tweet\" data-width=\"500\" data-dnt=\"true\">\n<p lang=\"en\" dir=\"ltr\">I ran and coached girl\u2019s track, and I won\u2019t look away while woke liberals destroy women\u2019s sports. <\/p>\n<p>Women\u2019s Sports are for Women, not men pretending to be women.<\/p>\n<p>Some people are afraid to talk about it, not me. <a href=\"https:\/\/t.co\/mmwZFORJss\">pic.twitter.com\/mmwZFORJss<\/a><\/p>\n<p>\u2014 Vicky Hartzler (@VickyHartzlerMO) <a href=\"https:\/\/twitter.com\/VickyHartzlerMO\/status\/1493193307295387650?ref_src=twsrc%5Etfw\">February 14, 2022<\/a><\/p>\n<\/blockquote>\n<p>\u201cThe six-figure advertisement is set to run in the Show-Me State from February 21 through March 18, according to Politico, coinciding with NCAA winter championships,\u201d <a href=\"https:\/\/www.dailymail.co.uk\/news\/article-10512345\/Missouri-GOP-Rep-running-Senate-releases-ad-slamming-transgender-athletes-including-Lia-Thomas.html\">The Daily Mail<\/a> reported.<\/p>\n<p>Some on social media both condemned Hartzler. One said, \u201c\u2019Some people are afraid to be transphobic and spread hate speech, but not me. I\u2019m Vicky Hartzler and I\u2019m an awful human.\u2019\u201d<\/p>\n<p>Others responded with memes saying, \u201cGo f*** yourself,\u201d and \u201cI\u2019ll leave you to your bulls***.\u201d<\/p>\n<p>But others cheered her with comments like \u201cThanks for speaking up on this, and with such clear language&nbsp;#SaveWomensSports,\u201d and \u201cThank you \u2013 from all of us sport playing\/loving women &amp; girls.\u201d<\/p>\n<p>\u201cWell, I will certainly support you for this alone!,\u201d another added.<\/p>\n<p>In early February, 16 members of the Penn Women\u2019s Swimming and Diving Team sent a letter to the University of Pennsylvania and the Ivy League asking them to refrain from suing the NCAA over its new Athlete Inclusion Policies that would bar Lia Thomas, formerly known as Will Thomas, from participating in the NCAA championships in March. They stated, \u201cWe have been told that if we spoke out against her inclusion into women\u2019s competitions, that we would be removed from the team or that we would never get a job offer.\u201d<\/p>\n<p>\u201cThe group, organized by three-time Olympic gold medalist Nancy Hogshead-Makar, sent the letter early Thursday morning asking UPenn and the Ivy League to support us as biological women\u2019 and not engage the NCAA in legal action in an effort to challenge the new protocols,\u201d&nbsp;<a href=\"https:\/\/swimswam.com\/group-of-penn-swimmers-ask-upenn-ivy-league-to-abide-by-new-transgender-policy\/\">Swim Swam<\/a>&nbsp;reported, adding, \u201cHogshead-Makar says that the swimmers wrote the letter themselves, though both Hogshead-Makar, an organized group of parents, and other athletes, made edits before arriving at the final draft.\u201d<\/p>\n<p>In the letter, the swimmers note, \u201cBiologically, Lia holds an unfair advantage over competition in the women\u2019s category, as evidenced by her rankings that have bounced from #462 as a male to #1 as a female. If she (Thomas) were to be eligible to compete against us, she could now break Penn, Ivy, and NCAA Women\u2019s Swimming records; feats she could never have done as a male athlete.\u201d<\/p>\n<p>They continued:<\/p>\n<blockquote>\n<p><em>Most important to us is that Lia\u2019s inclusion with unfair biological advantages means that we have lost competitive opportunities. Some of us have lost records. But even those that swim different events than Lia or were not in contention to make the Ivy Championships, we stand by our teammates who have lost out. It has often felt like Penn, our school, our league, and the NCAA did not support us.<\/em><\/p>\n<p><em>We have dedicated our lives to swimming. Most of us started the same time Lia did, as pre-teens. We have trained up to 20 hours a week, swimming miles, running and lifting weights.&nbsp;To be sidelined or beaten by someone competing with the strength, height, and lung capacity advantages that can only come with male puberty has been exceedingly difficult.<\/em><\/p>\n<\/blockquote>\n<p><em>The Daily Wire is one of America\u2019s fastest-growing conservative media companies and counter-cultural outlets for news, opinion, and entertainment. Get inside access to The Daily Wire by becoming a <\/em><a href=\"https:\/\/www.dailywire.com\/subscribe\"><em>member<\/em><\/a><em>.&nbsp;<\/em><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>A Missouri GOP Congresswoman running for the Senate seat currently held by Republican Senator Roy Blunt, who is retiring, released a campaign ad in which she targeted biological men competing &#8230;<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":2315279,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_mo_disable_npp":"","fifu_image_url":"","fifu_image_alt":"","footnotes":""},"categories":[],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-1299251","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1299251","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=1299251"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1299251\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/2315279"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=1299251"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=1299251"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=1299251"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}