Feminists protesting Lia Thomas say they are politically homeless: ‘Democrats don’t care about women’

ATLANTA – A bunch of feminists protesting exterior the ladies’s NCAA swimming championships instructed Fox Information they’ve “walked away” from the Democratic Celebration and imagine many others have as effectively. 

“I used to be traditionally liberal. I’d say I am politically homeless now as a result of I do not assume the Democrats care about girls and women,” one activist with the group Save Girls’s Sports activities instructed Fox Information. 

The ladies’s advocacy group has been exterior Georgia Tech’s athletic middle protesting transgender swimmer Lia Thomas competing within the NCAA girls’s swimming and diving championships since Wednesday. 

“Feminism has change into so muddied, very like the time period Democrat has change into so muddied. It is virtually misplaced all which means,” Amy E. Sousa, one of many leaders of the group and a self-described “radical feminist,” instructed Fox Information.

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“I’m a lifelong registered Democrat who in the end feels politically homeless,” Sousa added. “With the entire Biden election, I started to really feel increasingly more disenfranchised from Democrats as a celebration, and I started to really feel increasingly more that they didn’t characterize my beliefs or my views.”

Feminists protest transgender lady Lia Thomas of the College of Pennsylvania’s participation within the NCAA Division I swimming and diving championships. 
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She went on to say Biden’s govt order to stop discrimination on the premise of gender identification was “a slap within the face” and “from that second I actually have not identified find out how to categorize myself politically.”

One other member of Save Girls’s Sports activities stated, “I all the time voted as a liberal, from 18 to 39. I registered Republican in 2020 after two politicians instructed me they didn’t need my vote due to my stance on the rights for ladies and women.” 

The group believes in sex-based rights and doesn’t agree with many strikes made by Democrats to incorporate organic males into girls’s actions.

Transgender lady Lia Thomas (left) of the College of Pennsylvania stands on the rostrum after successful the 500-yard freestyle as different medalists (L-R) Emma Weyant, Erica Sullivan and Brooke Forde pose for a photograph on the NCAA Division I girls’s swimming and diving championships March 17, 2022, in Atlanta. 
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“They wished to place males in prisons and males on sports activities groups and in my daughter’s college, in order that’s why I made a decision I can’t be part of this social gathering anymore — that does not even acknowledge my intercourse class,” the lady continued. 

One other lady stated she believes many others will abandon the Democratic Celebration as a result of its positions on girls’s points. 

Feminists protest transgender lady Lia Thomas of the College of Pennsylvania’s participation within the NCAA Division I swimming and diving championships. 
(Fox Information Digital)

“I do know numerous traditionally liberal folks, particularly mother and father, who’ve felt like they wanted to stroll away from the Democratic Celebration,” she stated. “I do not know who they are going to be voting for within the subsequent elections. I feel that we’ll have lots of people strolling away actually.”