{"id":1365449,"date":"2022-03-08T12:24:43","date_gmt":"2022-03-08T17:24:43","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/?p=1365449"},"modified":"2022-03-08T17:26:09","modified_gmt":"2022-03-08T22:26:09","slug":"after-backlash-over-lia-thomas-tweet-matt-schlapp-slams-the-lefts-war-on-gender","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/after-backlash-over-lia-thomas-tweet-matt-schlapp-slams-the-lefts-war-on-gender\/","title":{"rendered":"After Backlash Over Lia Thomas Tweet, Matt Schlapp Slams \u2018The Left\u2019s War On Gender\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\">28<\/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%2Fafter-backlash-over-lia-thomas-tweet-matt-schlapp-slams-the-lefts-war-on-gender%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=1365449&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:\/\/dw-wp-production.imgix.net\/2022\/03\/Screen-Shot-2022-03-08-at-8.27.12-AM.png?w=1200&#038;h=800&#038;ixlib=react-9.3.0\" class=\"ff-og-image-inserted\" alt=\"image\" \/><\/div>\n<p>The chairman of the Conservative Political Action Coalition slammed \u201cthe left\u2019s war on gender\u201d following backlash over his tweet about a biologically male swimmer at the center of controversy over the integrity of women\u2019s sports.<\/p>\n<p>\u201cNo matter what one thinks of Lia\u2019s ability to swim with women her story deserves our compassion,\u201d <a href=\"https:\/\/twitter.com\/mschlapp\/status\/1500609348854288385\">tweeted<\/a> CPAC chairman Matt Schlapp Monday evening, <a href=\"https:\/\/nypost.com\/2022\/03\/03\/transgender-swimmer-lia-thomas-says-i-belong-on-the-womens-team\/?utm_source=NYPTwitter&#038;utm_medium=SocialFlow&#038;utm_campaign=SocialFlow\">referring to a New York Post story<\/a> about transgender swimmer Lia Thomas. \u201cIt will be interesting to hear Lia\u2019s pov in 30 years.\u201d<\/p>\n<p>The CPAC chairman\u2019s tweet was quickly criticized by conservatives like pro-life activist <a href=\"https:\/\/twitter.com\/AbbyJohnson\/status\/1501062268049633282\">Abby Johnson<\/a>, \u201cRelatable\u201d podcast host <a href=\"https:\/\/twitter.com\/conservmillen\/status\/1501054849248550917\">Allie Beth Stuckey<\/a>, the\u00a0American Conservative senior editor <a href=\"https:\/\/twitter.com\/roddreher\/status\/1501168450407960584\">Rod Dreher<\/a>, and National Pulse editor-in-chief <a href=\"https:\/\/twitter.com\/RaheemKassam\/status\/1501024164148297733\">Raheem Kassam<\/a>.<\/p>\n<p>In a Tuesday afternoon statement, Schlapp promised that CPAC believes in \u201c<span class=\"s6\">fiercely defending girls and women\u2019s sports at every level, including in <\/span><span class=\"s6\">state legislative chambers.\u201d\u00a0<\/span><\/p>\n<p>\u201c<span class=\"s6\">The left\u2019s war on gender must be confronted and CPAC will continue to do just that,\u201d the statement said. \u201c<\/span><span class=\"s6\">And we will continue to demonstrate decency to all those involved.\u201d<\/span><\/p>\n<p>His use of the pronoun \u201cher\u201d was \u201cnot an intentional statement one way or the other,\u201d Schlapp said in\u00a0a late afternoon phone interview with The Daily Wire.<\/p>\n<p>\u201cI was just responding quickly in a tweet,\u201d he said.<\/p>\n<p>\u201cI just believe quite clearly that you can have operations to change your physical appearance but you can\u2019t change your gender,\u201d he told The Daily Wire. \u201cThere\u2019s no way to change it. And that should determine your status on gender questions like what sport you compete in.\u201d<\/p>\n<p>The CPAC chairman emphasized that there are \u201cfolks that are waging this war on gender are trying to force people into using pronouns so that they can open up their legal status to compete against women,\u201d saying that \u201cwe have to fight that aggressively.\u201d<\/p>\n<p>\u201cAnd I would just say CPAC is the lone group that scores these issues, not only in every state legislative chamber but nationwide, I think it\u2019s something like 8,000 ratings and we score all of these attempts to take this war on gender and turn it into a new set of victims, in this case, girls and women competing\u00a0in sports,\u201d he said.<\/p>\n<div class=\"css-1dbjc4n\">\n<div id=\"id__js7253ug4\" class=\"css-1dbjc4n\" aria-labelledby=\"id__wp6zlqxsiwp id__qdet2pvi9j\">\n<div class=\"css-1dbjc4n r-1s2bzr4\">\n<p>CPAC is led by the American Conservative Union, the nation\u2019s oldest conservative grassroots organization. The 2022 conference took place in Orlando, Florida where speakers expounded on the event\u2019s theme \u201cAwake, not Woke.\u201d<\/p>\n<p>Schlapp told <a href=\"https:\/\/www.youtube.com\/watch?v=TZMdMIzQBRo\">The Daily Signal during a CPAC interview<\/a> that Republicans only recently began leaning into the culture wars because \u201cthey got used to failing and it makes them nervous.\u201d<\/p>\n<p>In a <a href=\"https:\/\/www.washingtonexaminer.com\/politics\/awake-not-woke-cpac-pushes-aside-taxes-and-fiscal-policy-for-culture-wars\">separate interview with The Washington Examiner<\/a>, Schlapp commented on recent cultural attacks, saying, \u201cParents aren\u2019t domestic terrorists. Cops aren\u2019t the force of evil. They actually keep us safe \u2026 Gender confusion, girl sports, you can go on and on and on.\u201d<\/p>\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 <a class=\"in-cell-link\" href=\"https:\/\/www.dailywire.com\/subscribe\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">member<\/a>.<\/em><\/p>\n<\/div>\n<\/div>\n<\/div>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>The chairman of the Conservative Political Action Coalition slammed \u201cthe left\u2019s war on gender\u201d following backlash over his tweet about a biologically male swimmer at the center of controversy over<\/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-1365449","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\/1365449","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=1365449"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1365449\/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=1365449"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=1365449"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=1365449"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}