High school students throughout the state of New York have organized a protest later this month against transgender athletes in girls’ sports.

The Coalition to Protect Kids has organized a walkout, dubbed “Walk Off for Fairness Day,” on Oct. 24 that has received the support of conservative leaders.

“It’s hard to believe we’re even having the conversation that girls sports would be for anyone other than girls,” Conservative Party chairman Gerry Kassar said via the New York Post. “We fully support ‘Walk Off for Fairness Day’ in New York, reminding young people that there is safety in numbers. Girls Sports must remain Girls Sports, and there should be nothing controversial in that statement.”

“Girls are being systematically canceled in this state, and ‘Walk Off for Fairness Day’ will give them a safe opportunity to make their voices heard,” said Coalition to Protect Kids-NY spokeswoman Ayesha Kreutz. “So many of these young women are afraid of speaking out, so they’re forced to watch as 50 years of female athletic progress gets washed away by destructive ideologues. Girls are not second-class citizens, so why are they being treated that way?”

“It’s not right for boys to compete against girls in sports. It’s a huge disadvantage for girls,” said Hannah Pompeo, a 16-year soccer player at Eden High School near Buffalo, who is participating in the “Walk Off for Fairness Day.”

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“I don’t think it’s right for men to be in our safe spaces. We worked hard for places on our teams,” added Millie McCormack, a dancer at Somers High School. “Boys have physical advantages we don’t have.”

The protest will occur roughly two weeks before Election Day, when New Yorkers will be able to vote on extra protections in the state’s constitution.

Proposition 1, the “Equal Rights Amendment,” seeks to not discriminate based on “race, color, ethnicity, national origin, age, disability, creed, religion, or sex, including sexual orientation, gender identity or expression, pregnancy, pregnancy outcomes, reproductive healthcare and autonomy.” While athletics is not strictly cited, those against the proposition say the writing is on the wall.

Nassau County lawmakers in June voted to pass a bill that would prohibit transgender athletes from competing in girls’ and women’s sports at county-run facilities. 

The measure, which covers more than 100 sites just outside New York City, requires any teams, leagues or organizations that seek a permit from the county’s parks and recreation department to “expressly designate” whether they are for male, female or coed athletes.

Demonstrators cheer during the speaking program at the “Our Bodies, Our Sports” rally for the 50th anniversary of Title IX at Freedom Plaza on June 23, 2022 in Washington, D.C. (Anna Moneymaker/Getty Images)

Any female teams or leagues will be denied permits if they allow transgender athletes to participate.

Fox News’ Ryan Gaydos contributed to this report.

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During a visit to Western Pennsylvania on Friday, Speaker of the House of Representatives Mike Johnson called the amount of money Democrats are spending on House races this year “irrational” — even though both Democrats and Republicans are on track to spend less money in the area than they did two years ago.

“Democrats, I think irrationally, have raised a lot of money this cycle,” Johnson said during a stop at an Aliquippa trucking company. “They’ve raised more in a lot of the key races around the country. But ultimately, at the end of the day, it’s not about the quantity of the cash. It’s about the quality of the candidate.”

Johnson was stumping for Republican Congressional candidate Rob Mercuri, who is looking to unseat the Democratic incumbent Chris Deluzio in the 17th Congressional District — and whose own candidacy has been outgunned so far.

The Democrat-aligned House Majority PAC has reserved $1.9 million for ads on the race, while the Republican equivalent, the National Republican Congressional Committee, has reserved only around $700,000, according to AdImpact, which tracks campaign ad spending.

Although Johnson called the amount of Democratic spending “irrational,” outside funders in both parties had each spent more than four times as much on ads — around $8 million — by this point in the 17th District race in 2022.

Mercuri is also being outspent when comparing each campaign head-to-head, without factoring in allied groups. Deluzio’s campaign is spending $1.7 million on ads, according to AdImpact, compared to just $400,000 for Mercuri. Deluzio spent a similar amount of money on ads in 2022, though resources in that race were more evenly matched: Republican candidate Jerememy Shaeffer spent four times as much money on ads in the district in 2022 as Mercuri’s campaign has so far.

Johnson said that Mercuri could make up the difference with help from outside groups.

“The campaign finance laws prevent me from coordinating with our super PACs and the conservative groups that are out there,” Johnson said. “But I know there’s a lot of buzz about Rob’s race. They’re watching it very closely. And my expectation is in the coming days, he’ll have a lot more air cover coming in here at the end, and that’s when it really counts.”

That money has already started to flow in recent weeks. A Super PAC called the Eighteen Fifty-Four Fund has reserved around $1.8 million worth of ads in the final weeks of the campaign starting on October 15. Five family members of Betsy DeVos, the education secretary under former president Donald Trump, are listed as the committee members for the organization in a tax filing. No outside group has spent $3,000 or more on ads for Deluzio.

The 17th Congressional District is expected to be the closest Congressional race in Western Pennsylvania. The Cook Political Report says the voter distribution in the district is about evenly split between Democrats and Republicans, but has listed the race as “lean Democrat.”