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Kamala Harris Crawls Back Into Spotlight to Trash Trump Again

Former Vice President Kamala Harris resurfaced Thursday to speak at the Leading Women Defined Summit in Dana Point, California, where she sharply criticized President Donald Trump’s second term and warned against what she described as a growing silence in the face of “unconstitutional threats.”

“We’re seeing people stay quiet. We are seeing organizations stay quiet. We are seeing those who are capitulating to clearly unconstitutional threats. And these are the things we are witnessing. Each day in the last few months in our country. And it understandably creates a great sense of fear. Because you know there were many things we knew would happen.”

As Fox News reported, the speech marked one of Harris’ most public appearances since her loss to President Trump in the 2024 presidential election. Though she lost the race in November, Harris took the stage with renewed energy and referenced her earlier warnings about Trump’s return to office.

Vice President Kamala Harris greets the crowd in Jenison Field House on the Michigan State campus Sunday, Nov. 3, 2024.

“I’m not here to say I told you so,” she said, pausing before adding with a laugh, “I swear, I wasn’t going to say that,” drawing laughter from the audience.

The appearance also came as reports surfaced detailing how Harris and her 2024 running mate, Minnesota Governor Tim Walz, were reportedly stunned by the outcome of the election. According to journalist Amie Parnes, Harris “was completely shocked,” by the defeat.

Parnes, co-author of the new book Fight: Inside the Wildest Battle for the White House, spoke on the podcast “Somebody’s Gotta Win with Tara Palmeri,” which aired Thursday.

The book, co-written with NBC reporter Jonathan Allen, details the 2024 campaign and the political fallout following President Joe Biden’s withdrawal from the race, which placed Harris at the top of the Democratic ticket.

Harris’ criticism of Trump on Thursday comes amid ongoing legal and market challenges tied to several of the president’s initiatives. A number of Trump’s executive actions remain tied up in court proceedings, and markets reacted sharply this week to his new tariffs, which have disrupted global trade activity and caused significant stock market volatility.

Thursday’s address was not Harris’ first public appearance since the election. In February, she gave a speech while accepting an award during the NAACP Image Awards. During that appearance, she also took indirect swipes at Trump and Department of Government Efficiency chief Elon Musk.

While Harris has remained mostly out of the spotlight since the 2024 election, her remarks at Dana Point suggest she plans to re-engage publicly as Trump’s administration continues to roll out new policy directives.

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Big Government, Democrats

DNC Chair Announces New “Shadow Government” to Thwart Trump’s Agenda

DNC Chair Announces New "Shadow Government" to Thwart Trump's Agenda

The Democratic National Committee (DNC) has announced a new “shadow government” dubbed the People’s Cabinet in an effort to derail President Donald Trump’s MAGA agenda.

The announcement came not long after Minnesota Governor Tim Walz called for a “shadow government” to oppose Trump and advocated for what he called “alternate press conferences” to force Democrat-approved talking points on the public.

Days later, DNC Chair Ken Martin announced he is turning it into an official operation to thwart Trump.

The People’s Cabinet will consist of “experts, leaders, and everyday Americans,” while in reality, it’s nothing more than a bunch of bureaucrats and radical activists hell-bent on destroying America.

According to Martin, the project will counter “lies” and bring so-called “accurate information.”

In other words, they will spin more lies and disrupt Trump’s common-sense moves to fix the mess left by Joe Biden.

This is nothing but political subversion.

As Trump works to rebuild the economy and protect America’s future, Democrats are doing everything they can to disrupt his efforts.

Moreover, the featured names in the People’s Cabinet should tell you everything. Here are some — via The Gateway Pundit:

Robert Reich, a far-left economist and co-founder of a group that traffics in class warfare and fearmongering.
Mandela Barnes, who couldn’t win over voters in Wisconsin but is now being recycled to bash Trump’s policies on the national stage.
Heidi Heitkamp, a former senator who wants to lecture rural America after voters sent her packing.
Martin O’Malley, failed presidential hopeful, now reinvented as a “defender” of Social Security against imaginary threats.

The plan will also include “rapid response” efforts to attack Trump’s policies, disrupt his messaging, and suppress conservative voices online.

“I’ve been traveling across the country nonstop since I started this job, and what I hear over and over is that Americans want us to challenge Trump’s unimpeded lies, confront his reckless agenda, and offer a better alternative,” said DNC Chair Ken Martin.

“Trump has stacked his Cabinet with out-of-touch billionaires and know-nothing loyalists who are wreaking havoc on the lives of working people across this country, with total disregard for the harm they’re causing our families – from stripping away their health care coverage, to jacking up their costs at the grocery store, to putting the lives of service members at risk.
The People’s Cabinet is made up of experts, leaders, and everyday Americans from across the country who will equip communities with the reliable, accurate information they need to fight back against the worst of the Trump and Republican agenda.”

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Democrats, LGBTQ+

Georgia Dems Walk Out of Chamber in Support of Sex-Changes for Criminals

Democrats across the country are playing Backwards Morality Day every day now. Here’s how you can play along with them:

  1. Find the most unsympathetic cause.
  2. Find equally unsympathetic, even monstrous people associated with the cause. 
  3. Call the monstrous cause and the unsavory people “marginalized” and “victims.”
  4. Dems will go all in on the monster cause and work to make new monsters. 
  5. Profit!

It sounds absurd because it is, and it is also true. Remember Trump’s speech to Congress, and how the Dems refused to clap for a 13-year-old boy with terminal brain cancer? Remember how every single one of them, including the Democratic women, refused to vote for a bill that would protect girls from having to play against boys (“trans girls”) in sports or share their locker rooms with them? 

The rules are simple. If you’re a bad person, the Dems love you. If you’re a criminal, the Dems love you. If you’re an illegal alien, the Dems love you. If you’re a normal American citizen, they absolutely hate you and want to do everything they can to drain more of your tax dollars to give away to dangerous, violent, or perverted scum. More below.

It’s not just in Washington, either. The Democrat politicians at the state level haven’t even begun to recover their sanity; they’re still living in woke world. Maybe they think if they keep pretending they’ll wake up one day and find that Donald Trump’s election was just a bad dream. Colorado leftists have introduced a bill that would deprive parents of custody in divorce cases if the parent won’t address their “trans” child (no such thing) by their made-up fake name. California’s legislature just nixed a bill that would have barred boys from girls’ sports teams. 

Now in Georgia, Democrat lawmakers threw fits and walked out of the chamber to protest a Republican-backed bill. What was it? A bill to stop the taxpayer funding of sex-change surgeries for prison inmates. Yes, really. 

Their fellow leftists applauded their colleagues as they left chamber as if they’d all just marched across the Edmund Pettis bridge or re-liberated the slaves. 

Let’s see what the public thinks. 

Hmm. Seems like the Democrats are out of step with sane Americans. Let’s see if we can find some support for the liberal champs. 

Nope. Doesn’t seem to be much. Most responses sound like this:

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Gavin Newsom Rages as Trump Cuts Planned Parenthood Funding in California

Gavin Newsom Rages as Trump Cuts Planned Parenthood Funding in California

California Gov. Gavin Newsom reacted angrily to President Donald Trump shutting down federal funds that went to abortions provided by Planned Parenthood.

In a press release, the abortion provider confirmed that nine of its affiliates were informed that the Trump administration would temporarily withhold their Title X funding over possible violations of Trump’s executive orders.

Newsom decried the order on social media:

“Woke up this morning to the Trump Administration freezing ALL of CA’s Title X funding,” he wrote.

“It’s a Republican-founded program — Richard Nixon of all people established it in 1970. This is just plain cruel.”

Newsom said Title X funds paid for “basic reproductive care,” including birth control, cancer screenings, and STD testing.

The executive order, which Trump signed in January, ended “the use of Federal taxpayer dollars to fund or promote elective abortion.”

Planned Parenthood was also suspected of violating Trump’s prohibitions against diversity, equity, and inclusion policies, including providing abortion services to illegal aliens.

Planned Parenthood Action Fund CEO and President Alexis McGill claimed the action would lead to a deterioration in women’s health.

“President Trump and Elon Musk are pushing their dangerous political agenda, stripping health care access from people nationwide, and not giving a second thought to the devastation they will cause,” said McGill.

“We know what happens when health care providers cannot use Title X funding: People across the country suffer, cancers go undetected, access to birth control is severely reduced, and the nation’s STI crisis worsens,” she claimed.

Shelby McMichael, communications manager of Planned Parenthood Affiliates of California, said:

“Given the first Trump Administration’s actions to restrict Title X and force abortion providers like Planned Parenthood out of the program, and the subsequent reversal of those rules under the Biden Administration, we know that the temporary withholding of California’s Title X funds means that access to critical family planning services is once again threatened, with real, serious impacts on patients and providers.”

KCRA reported:

McMichael said the organization would call on the state to take action and make investments to preserve reproductive freedom.

McMichael also noted that California’s Title X network served more than 500,000 patients last year.

Beyond California, the Title X program provided essential services for more than 4 million people across the U.S. in 2018.

The U.S. Department of Health and Human Services declined to say which laws or executive orders the groups are being investigated for violating, though the National Family Planning and Reproductive Health Association said some of the letters cited civil rights laws.

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Democrats Do a Lucy-and-Ethel At the Candy Factory

In one of the most famous episodes of the classic TV series I Love Lucy, Lucy and Ethel get jobs in a chocolate factory. You know the drill. They’re manning the conveyor belt carrying finished chocolates as they come out of the machine needing to be wrapped and packaged. Slowly but surely, the conveyor belt speeds up and the ladies are having trouble keeping up. 

When the speed gets more than they can handle, Lucy and Ethel try to manage the runaway candy belt by stuffing chocolates in their mouths and shirts. It never occurs to them to just stop, reassess the situation, and take a different approach. They either can’t think differently, or they have no way to convince the operator to slow the whole thing down, so they try to keep it all together in a way that ends up ruining the candy and costing them their jobs. 

That’s how the Democrat party is “handling” the country’s swing to a conservative mood after the election of Donald Trump to the presidency. The usual hysterics on major media just keep doing more hysteria faster—witness CBS’ Margaret Brennan laughably blaming the Holocaust on free speech in Germany.

Or take failed Vice Presidential candidate Tim Walz (Governor of Minnesota), whose advice to a recent crowd of party faithful was to double down on the lunacy. Referring to the racist Diversity, Equity, and Inclusion (DEI) policies that America has soundly rejected, Walz says the Democrats can win if they just push more of those, and harder. 

“We got ourselves in this mess because we weren’t bold enough to stand up and say ‘you damn right we’re proud of these policies. We’re going to put them in, and we’re going to execute them’,” said Walz.

Oh, dear. 

Speaking at a rally put on by the Christopher Street Project, a PAC that aims to elect so-called “transgender” people to political office, the best the Dems can do is to pull a Lucy-n-Ethel. Take this woman, who tells the crowd that “her” “pronouns” are: he, she, they, and them. She works for Planned Parenthood as a nurse, she tells us from behind her Covid mask, and she’s very worried about lots of things. 

https://twitter.com/EndWokeness/status/1906843790737916171

Next up at the same event, we have Democrat Rep. Judy Chu of California delivering her message “loud and clear” in a strangely strangled, screeching voice: “Trans rights are human rights and human rights are trans rights!” At least she achieved symmetry. 

This kind of thing is of course red meat. . .I mean, plant-based protein. . .to the lunatic left, but how’s it playing in digital Peoria? Here’s what X/Twitter users had to say. 

Not so good so far. 

https://x.com/FemApologetics/status/1906844662645567880

Will they ever learn?

Democrats

Jasmine Crockett’s Attack on GOP Rep Goes Viral After Unintentionally Targeting Kamala Harris

Jasmine Crockett’s Attack on GOP Rep Goes Viral After Unintentionally Targeting Kamala Harris

Congresswoman Jasmine Crockett (D-TX) put her foot in it this week after inadvertently criticizing former Vice President Kamala Harris and fellow Squad members during a swipe at a Republican colleague.

During an appearance on The Breakfast Club, Crockett slammed Congressman Byron Donalds (R-FL) for marrying a white woman.

“If we continue to put into office skinfolk, who are definitely not our kinfolk, such as Byron Donalds, who are going to continue to say… the fact that you was sitting around talking about life was better under Jim Crow?” she said in the now-viral clip.

“Like, is this because you don’t understand history?” the Democrat says in a viral clip circulating on X.

“Or literally it’s because you married a white woman, so you think that whitewash you?” she quipped.

When host Charlamagne tha God noted that Donalds “couldn’t even be married to a white woman under Jim Crow,” Crockett yelled, “Correct!”

“It’s a joy to call him out,” she continued.

“It’s like they give him his talking points, and he’s like, ‘Yes massa, I got it.’”

Watch

During Crockett’s rant, she accidentally criticized Harris, whose husband Doug Emhoff is white, as well as fellow Squad members Ilhan Omar (D-MN), Alexandria Ocasio-Cortez (D-NY), and Summer Lee (D-PA).

Crockett also made headlines this week after referring to her state’s Republican governor as “Hot Wheels” because he uses a wheelchair, which she failed to apologize for.

She also allegedly assaulted a conservative journalist after the young man asked whether she condoned the nationwide acts of vandalism against Tesla cars and dealerships.

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Democrats, Govt Corruption

Wisconsin Voter Integrity Battle: 5,000 Allegedly Illegal Registrations Submitted

Image Credit: © Jovanny Hernandez / Milwaukee Journal Sentinel / USA TODAY NETWORK via Imagn Images

Ahead of Wisconsin’s high-profile elections on Tuesday, an election integrity watchdog, Fair Elections Wisconsin (FEW), has raised concerns about nearly 5,000 allegedly illegal voter registrations in Milwaukee.

The group claims these registrations were used to cast ballots in the November election, and their challenge to the city’s voter rolls has sparked controversy.

On Wednesday, FEW President Justin Gavery submitted a list of 4,878 allegedly illegal voter registrations to the Milwaukee Election Commission (MEC).

According to the group’s review of data from the Wisconsin Elections Commission (WEC) and the U.S. Postal Service’s National Change of Address database, the registrations involved voters who had either moved out of the county or state before the October 24, 2024, deadline for voter registration.

Among the 4,878 registrations in question, FEW found that 281 voters had moved out of the county before the cutoff date, while 377 had moved out of state.

Additionally, the review found several other discrepancies, such as 2,926 addresses with missing or incorrect apartment/suite/unit numbers, 540 voters who had moved from their registered address, and 501 physical addresses that had been changed to P.O. boxes.

Other issues included 217 voters who had no forwarding addresses on file, 24 who used commercial addresses (such as UPS or FedEx stores), and 11 who registered using a U.S. Post Office address.

FEW formally challenged these voter registrations, calling for an investigation into the irregularities and urging the commission to take appropriate action.

The group’s legal challenge asked that those who had registered unlawfully—such as with a UPS store address—be prosecuted, that postcards be sent to correct any errors, and that the names be moved to inactive status if they were found to be incorrect.

Gavery told Just the News on Thursday that the commission initially attempted to dismiss the group’s challenges.

However, after mentioning the potentially illegal votes cast in the November election, FEW was able to push the issue further.

“We had them cornered, so they did a closed session,” Gavery said.

After about 30 minutes of waiting, the commission reconvened and informed FEW that their challenges would not be accepted.

When Gavery pressed the commission on whether they were interested in investigating potential voter fraud, he said the response was dismissive.

“Meeting adjourned,” he was told.

Gavery clarified that the voter registrations had not been cross-referenced to determine political party affiliation, so the issue is not partisan.

“This isn’t a partisan issue,” he said, pointing out that the registrations could involve both Republican and Democratic voters.

The Wisconsin Elections Commission did not respond to a request for comment on Friday regarding the challenges.

As the state gears up for elections on April 1, including high-profile races for the Wisconsin Supreme Court and a proposed constitutional amendment on voter ID, the issue of voter integrity continues to be a topic of concern.

Voter ID is already required by Wisconsin state law, but the upcoming vote will decide whether to enshrine this requirement in the state constitution.

State Rep. Rob Kreibich, who supports the constitutional amendment, wrote in January that the amendment would protect the integrity of Wisconsin’s voting system.

“For clarification, photo ID is already required by Wisconsin State Statute. But a ‘yes’ vote would amend the Wisconsin Constitution to include this requirement,” he explained.

The Wisconsin Supreme Court race is another closely watched contest, with Democratic-backed Judge Susan Crawford facing off against Republican-backed Judge Brad Schimel.

Polls show the race is tight, with both candidates tied at 47% support among likely voters, according to a March poll by Wisconsin Manufacturers & Commerce.

The election has seen significant spending, with reports showing that the race could reach $100 million in total expenditures.

More than $17 million has been spent by groups supporting Schimel, including contributions from Tesla CEO Elon Musk, who has also donated $3 million to the Wisconsin Republican Party.

Crawford has raised more than $25 million, with support from progressive figures like George Soros and Illinois Gov. J.B. Pritzker.

With early voting already surpassing previous years’ totals by nearly 50%, the race is shaping up to be one of the most expensive and contentious in the state’s history.

Early voting ends Sunday, and Wisconsin voters will have a chance to decide the future of their state’s Supreme Court and constitutional amendments.

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Walz Thinks Democrats Lost Because They Weren’t Woke Enough. Seriously.

Minnesota Governor Tim Walz took his left-wing wish list to Texas this week, blaming the Democratic Party’s 2024 implosion on a lack of “boldness” when it comes to divisive policies like DEI and open-border immigration, as reported by Fox News.

During a town hall appearance in Rosenberg with failed Senate candidate Beto O’Rourke, Walz railed against Republicans and even admitted Democrats let the Right define “woke.”

Democratic vice presidential candidate Tim Walz speaks during a campaign rally on Oct. 14, 2024, at the KI Convention Center in Green Bay, Wis.

Apparently, his solution is to embrace it harder.

“I’m just going to note this sh*t show of a [Signal] text chain that was going on could have used a little diversity, equity, inclusion in the people who were there.”

Walz didn’t stop there. He blamed Democrats for backing off their far-left policies when confronted by public backlash.

“We got ourselves in this mess because we weren’t bold enough to stand up and say ‘you damn right we’re proud of these policies.’ We’re going to put them in, and we’re going to execute them.”

So just to be clear—his party lost, and his takeaway is that they weren’t radical enough? Got it.

He then accused Republicans of fearmongering, saying, “They’re going to use fear, and they’re going to do whatever they can,” while urging the Democrat base to organize.

Democratic vice presidential candidate Tim Walz speaks to a crowd during a campaign rally at Trevor G. Browne High School in Phoenix on Oct. 26, 2024.

He even dragged veterans into the DEI conversation, claiming, “One of the groups that has benefited greatly by us understanding that diversity, equity and inclusion and having policies around that, were veterans themselves for hiring.”

Not done yet, Walz doubled down on his belief that Minnesota’s “very existence depends on diversity, equity and inclusion,” because 70% of the state’s future workforce “will come from communities of color.”

That’s quite a stretch considering most Americans just want a functioning border and a government that doesn’t obsess over skin color and gender pronouns.

And in classic liberal form, Walz couldn’t resist lobbing more verbal grenades at Trump supporters, referring to them as people whose “a**” he could kick—something he had said earlier on a podcast with California Governor Gavin Newsom. President Trump had a response for that.

“Well, he’s a loser. Yeah. No, I think so. He lost an election,” President Trump fired back. “He played a part. You know, usually a vice president doesn’t play a part… I think Tim played a part. I think he was so bad that he hurt her. But she hurt herself. And Joe hurt them both.”

From where conservatives sit, Walz’s comments only confirm what we already know—Democrats aren’t learning from their failures. They’re doubling down, and they’re proud of it. And apparently, they’re taking advice from the guy who couldn’t even beat Ted Cruz.

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Nancy Pelosi Silent on Tesla Attacks, Refuses to Condemn Violence

Nancy Pelosi Silent on Tesla Attacks, Refuses to Condemn Violence

Former House Speaker Nancy Pelosi refused to condemn the violence against Tesla dealerships and vehicle owners, point blank ignoring a reporter’s question asking her to disavow the terroristic behavior.

Attacks on Tesla facilities have ramped up with recent reports of explosive devices even being found planted under vehicles in one Austin dealership.

However, Pelosi appears to believe such incidents are not worthy of a comment.

“What do you think about the violence at the Tesla dealerships? What’s your take on it?” the reporter asked Pelosi.

“I’m so sorry, I’m a little bit late here right now,” Pelosi responded.

All she had to say was “I condemn it”—that’s it.

But no.

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Pelosi appears okay with innocent Americans being attacked by angry leftists.

Elon Musk responded to the ongoing attacks, saying, “Tesla is a peaceful company that has made great cars, great products.

“That’s all it’s done. It hasn’t harmed anyone. And yet, people are committing violence. They’re firebombing Tesla dealerships.”

“They’re shooting guns into stores. They’re threatening people. They’re issuing death threats against me and another Tesla personnel. What are they doing this for? Why?” Musk further noted.

“What’s happening, it seems to me, is they’re being fed propaganda by the far left,” he continued, adding “And they believe it. It’s really unfortunate. The real problem is not the people.”

“It’s not like, you know, the crazy guy that firebombs a Tesla dealership. It’s the people pushing the propaganda that caused that guy to do it. Those are the real villains here,” Musk urged, adding “we’re going to go after them.”

Last week, Musk said his life was in danger due to his heavy involvement in the Trump administration’s efforts to combat government waste and fraud.

The DOGE leader told Fox News’s Sean Hannity that “when you take away people’s … fraud, the money they’re receiving fraudulently, they get very upset, and they basically want to kill me because I’m stopping their fraud.”

He added:

“And they want to hurt Tesla because we’re stopping this terrible waste and corruption in the government. And, well, I guess they’re bad people. Bad people do bad things.”

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California Democrats Block a Bill to Keep Men Out of Women’s Sports and Locker Rooms

Barely a month after California governor Gavin Newsom said that allowing transgender athletes – biological men who identify as women – to participate in women’s sports was deeply unfair, Democrats have steered the state in the opposite direction.

On March 22, California Assembly Democrats voted unanimously to block the hearing of “AB 844: Educational equity: sex-segregated school and athletic programs and activities: use of facilities” bill that would have enforced gender-segregated sports and locker rooms.

“This bill, notwithstanding any other law, would require that a student’s participation in sex-segregated athletic programs and activities and use of facilities, including bathrooms, locker rooms, showers, overnight accommodations, and student housing at a postsecondary institution be based upon the student’s sex,” AB44 reads in part.

Assemblyman Bill Essayli (CA-R-63) introduced the proposal to protect girls from potential predation by men exploiting gender identity to access their private facilities. He lamented the Democrats’ disregard for logic and the will of most American voters.

“Assembly Democrats care more about allowing biological boys into girls’ sports and locker rooms than protecting our daughters — this defies all common sense,” Assemblyman Essayli said.

“The vast majority of Californians and all Americans agree: keep boys out of girls’ sports. Assembly Democrats are radically out of touch with common sense Californians, and the voters will hold them accountable to restore justice and fairness in girls’ sports.”

California Democrats also removed Assemblyman Essayli from all committees for proposing the removal of sanctuary protections for illegal immigrants.

Meanwhile, Gov. Newsom has not issued a public statement about the bill or his party members’ unanimous decision to block its vote despite previously signaling support for fairness in women’s sports. Nonetheless, he had suggested handling the transgender issue carefully, claiming that gender non-conforming individuals are more likely to commit suicide. This false narrative sharply contradicts a recent study that linked gender affirming care to higher suicide rates.

“There’s also a humility and a grace, that these poor people are more likely to commit suicide, have anxiety and depression. So both things I can hold in my hand,” he said.

“How can we address this issue with the kind of decency that I think is inherent in you but not always expressed on the issue, but at the same time deal with the unfairness?”

However, the threat posed by men who identify as women in women’s sports and locker rooms is well documented. In 2023, a transgender individual who was using women’s bathrooms and locker rooms beat a female student to death in Rivesider, California. Similarly, volleyball player Payton McNabb was severely injured when a transgender opponent spiked a ball so hard on her head that it caused traumatic brain injuries.

Newsom and other Democrats also overlook the mental health impact the inclusion of trans athletes has on sportswomen displaced by their biological male competitors, whom they cannot fairly compete against. In 2023, 27-year-old transgender cyclist Austin Killips won the women’s Tour of the Gila in New Mexico stage race with a whopping 50 minutes and 25 seconds. 

Ada Gallagher, a transgender high schooler, also set records in the 200-meter and 400-meter girls’ races, defeating the runner-up by over 7 seconds in the usually tightly contested race. High school athlete Margaret Oneal, who ranked second behind a transgender runner, said that competing against a “physically stronger” biological male was “discouraging and disheartening” and took a mental toll on her teammates.

Sens. Joni Ernst (R-Iowa) also said the inclusion of trans athletes in women’s sports undermines sportswomen in numerous ways.

“To do so would threaten a woman’s physical safety and limit their opportunities for athletic success and scholarships,” Rep. Ernst said. “As a woman and a mother, I am passionate about protecting women and girls, which is why I’m working with my colleagues to pass the Protection of Women and Girls in Sports Act.”


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