{"id":1917444,"date":"2023-04-21T00:41:40","date_gmt":"2023-04-21T04:41:40","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/top-house-democrat-says-men-in-womens-sports-is-an-issue-that-doesnt-exist\/"},"modified":"2023-04-21T00:42:22","modified_gmt":"2023-04-21T04:42:22","slug":"top-house-democrat-says-men-in-womens-sports-is-an-issue-that-doesnt-exist","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/top-house-democrat-says-men-in-womens-sports-is-an-issue-that-doesnt-exist\/","title":{"rendered":"Top House Democrat Says Men In Women\u2019s Sports Is An Issue That \u2018Doesn\u2019t Exist\u2019"},"content":{"rendered":"<aside class=\"mashsb-container mashsb-main mashsb-stretched\"><div class=\"mashsb-box\"><div class=\"mashsb-count mash-medium\" style=\"float:left\"><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%2Ftop-house-democrat-says-men-in-womens-sports-is-an-issue-that-doesnt-exist%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=1917444&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--><p>House Minority Leader <a href=\"https:\/\/www.dailywire.com\/topic\/hakeem-jeffries\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">Hakeem Jeffries<\/a> (D-NY) stood in solidarity with the rest of his party on Thursday as not one of them voted in favor of the GOP-led bill designed to protect women\u2019s sports.<\/p>\n<p>Jeffries criticized the measure \u2014 claiming that all \u201ckind-hearted Americans\u201d stood with him in supporting trans-identifying children \u2014 and said that \u201cextreme MAGA Republicans\u201d were attempting to amplify an issue that \u201cdoesn\u2019t exist.\u201d<\/p>\n<p><strong>WATCH:<\/strong><\/p>\n<blockquote class=\"twitter-tweet\" data-width=\"500\" data-dnt=\"true\">\n<p lang=\"en\" dir=\"ltr\">House Minority Leader Rep. Hakeem Jeffries (D-NY) condemned a GOP-led bill in the House Thursday that would ban trans women and girls from participating in women&#8217;s sports. The bill is not expected to pass the Senate. <a href=\"https:\/\/t.co\/TZCoGtmvLk\">https:\/\/t.co\/TZCoGtmvLk<\/a> <a href=\"https:\/\/t.co\/pzm2mc2WSH\">pic.twitter.com\/pzm2mc2WSH<\/a><\/p>\n<p>\u2014 CBS News (@CBSNews) <a href=\"https:\/\/twitter.com\/CBSNews\/status\/1649144655550771210?ref_src=twsrc%5Etfw\">April 20, 2023<\/a><\/p>\n<\/blockquote>\n<p>Referencing the bill \u2014 which is expected to die in the Democrat-controlled Senate \u2014 Jeffries added, \u201cI believe in the fundamental goodness and decency and integrity and respectfulness of the American people.\u201d<\/p>\n<p>He went on to argue that for him, that bill \u2014 which split along party lines \u2014 was not political. Rather, he said, it was about \u201cbeing there for all of America\u2019s children.\u201d<\/p>\n<p>\u201c\u2026 including transgender children, who just want to be able to live. And to belong. And to make friends,\u201d he continued. \u201cThat\u2019s something that all Americans, I believe, all decent, kind-hearted Americans fundamentally support. And extreme MAGA Republicans are trying to sensationalize an issue that doesn\u2019t really exist in the way that they are falsely portraying.\u201d<\/p>\n<p>But despite Jeffries\u2019 insistence that the issue \u201cdoesn\u2019t really exist,\u201d trans-identifying athlete Chloe Barnes <a href=\"https:\/\/www.dailymail.co.uk\/news\/article-11864437\/Transgender-girl-helped-high-schools-track-field-team-secure-state-victory.html\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">just recently<\/a> helped Brookline High School to win the Massachusetts State Interscholastic Athletics Association Division 1 Indoor Track and Field Championships.<\/p>\n<p><b data-stringify-type=\"bold\"><a class=\"c-link c-link--focus-visible\" href=\"https:\/\/onelink.to\/dwapp\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener noreferrer\" data-stringify-link=\"https:\/\/onelink.to\/dwapp\" data-sk=\"tooltip_parent\">CLICK HERE TO GET THE DAILY WIRE APP<\/a><\/b><\/p>\n<p>Just last year, trans-identifying University of Pennsylvania swimmer Lia Thomas \u2014 who is still biologically fully male \u2014 won an NCAA women\u2019s championship title.<\/p>\n<p>And this issue didn\u2019t just suddenly arise in the last year or even over the last several years. The 2018 Connecticut State high school women\u2019s track &#038; field championships were <a href=\"https:\/\/www.cbsnews.com\/newyork\/news\/transgender-track-athletes-win-connecticut-state-championship-debate-ensues\/\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">dominated<\/a> by two biologically male trans-identifying students.<\/p>\n<p>Hulu has even <a href=\"https:\/\/www.wuwm.com\/2021-06-28\/changing-the-game-documentary-follows-three-trans-high-school-athletes-tells-a-story-of-courage\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">released a documentary<\/a>, aptly titled \u201cChanging the Game,\u201d that follows the paths of three trans-identifying athletes involved in their high school sports teams.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>House Minority Leader Hakeem Jeffries (D-NY) stood in solidarity with the rest of his party on Thursday as not one of them voted in favor of the GOP-led bill designed to protect women\u2019s sports. Jeffries criticized the measure \u2014 claiming that all \u201ckind-hearted Americans\u201d stood with him in supporting trans-identifying children \u2014 and said that<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":93,"featured_media":1917445,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_mo_disable_npp":"","fifu_image_url":"https:\/\/cndimages.nyc3.digitaloceanspaces.com\/breaking-news\/wp-content\/uploads\/2021\/01\/IMG_2758-scaled-1.jpg","fifu_image_alt":"","footnotes":""},"categories":[541],"tags":[4912,7118,5153,3653,4174,3847,4694],"class_list":["post-1917444","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-the-daily-wire","tag-democrat","tag-doesnt","tag-exist","tag-house","tag-issue","tag-sports","tag-womens"],"fifu_image_url":"https:\/\/cndimages.nyc3.digitaloceanspaces.com\/breaking-news\/wp-content\/uploads\/2021\/01\/IMG_2758-scaled-1.jpg","_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1917444","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\/93"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=1917444"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1917444\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/1917445"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=1917444"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=1917444"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=1917444"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}