{"id":4052,"date":"2025-10-10T13:41:15","date_gmt":"2025-10-10T13:41:15","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/thetradingdictionary.com\/index.php\/2025\/10\/10\/high-ranking-democrats-admit-to-knowingly-abandoning-women\/"},"modified":"2025-10-10T13:41:15","modified_gmt":"2025-10-10T13:41:15","slug":"high-ranking-democrats-admit-to-knowingly-abandoning-women","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/thetradingdictionary.com\/index.php\/2025\/10\/10\/high-ranking-democrats-admit-to-knowingly-abandoning-women\/","title":{"rendered":"High-ranking\u00a0Democrats\u00a0admit\u00a0to\u00a0knowingly\u00a0abandoning\u00a0women"},"content":{"rendered":"<p class=\"speakable\">Nothing woke America up&nbsp;to&nbsp;the realities of gender ideology quicker than the photo of Riley Gaines standing next&nbsp;to&nbsp;her National Championship opponent, a 6\u20191&#8242; male&nbsp;towering over her with his broad shoulders and smoldering grin. You felt it in your bones \u2013 <i>this isn\u2019t right.&nbsp;<\/i><\/p>\n<p class=\"speakable\">The moment sparked a nationwide campaign to&nbsp;try and convince everyday Americans that this feeling was not just instinct; it was internalized bigotry and evidence that there was noble, progressive work still&nbsp;to&nbsp;do. Only one problem. It was all a lie. And recent admissions show that not even the&nbsp;top Democratic leaders believed what they were selling.&nbsp;&nbsp;<\/p>\n<p>Just five years ago, I was a freshman in college, testifying in my dorm room about a bill that stated men cannot compete on&nbsp;women\u2019s sports teams. &#8216;Politics are crazy,&#8217; I thought, &#8216;Why do I even need&nbsp;to&nbsp;testify on something so obvious?&#8217;&nbsp;<\/p>\n<p>I quickly learned of my&nbsp;own naivety when the bill did not pass in my very conservative state. &#8216;This isn\u2019t a real issue,&#8217; they insisted while I, a female athlete who had previously competed against a man, sat in front of them. There was clearly much more&nbsp;to&nbsp;this problem than I realized.<\/p>\n<\/p>\n<p>When the spotlight on the issue grew, it was somehow immediately deemed partisan. The issue was linked&nbsp;to&nbsp;the&nbsp;Democrats\u2019 pro-LGBTQIA+ position, which they had insisted was the civil rights issue of our time, and now it was squarely at odds with something plainly unjust. But they were in&nbsp;too deep.&nbsp;<\/p>\n<p>At every turn, those who tried&nbsp;to&nbsp;find solutions&nbsp;to&nbsp;the problem of men in&nbsp;women\u2019s sports, including traditionally far-left organizations like&nbsp;Women\u2019s Liberation Front, found themselves up against the powerful political operatives of the Democratic Party. Though the ties between LGB and T were fading, the radical left insisted that&nbsp;to&nbsp;be pro-gay or pro-woman, you had&nbsp;to&nbsp;also stand for men in&nbsp;women\u2019s sports.&nbsp;Democrats&nbsp;obliged.<\/p>\n<div class=\"embed-media fn-video\">\n<div class=\"video-container\">\n<div data-video-tags=\"primary_us,us,us|education,us|education|college,on_air,on_air|outnumbered,personality|harris_faulkner,personality|emily compagno,personality|kennedy,personality|cheryl_casone\" data-video-title=\"Ex-coach sues California university over trans athlete scandal, claiming \" data-video-id=\"6380776572112\" data-video-domain=\"foxnews\" data-video-type=\"CLIP\" data-widget-type=\"embed\" class=\"m video-player\" style=\"width: 100%;height: 100%\"> <\/div>\n<\/div>\n<\/div>\n<p>In some ways, this makes sense. If the&nbsp;Democrats&nbsp;acknowledge that sex exists in sports, then what does this mean&nbsp;to&nbsp;other parts of their agenda that rely on sex-denying ideology? The crusade&nbsp;to&nbsp;abolish sex&nbsp;is one that spans decades, and they are not about&nbsp;to&nbsp;budge now. So, they doubled down, even redefining &#8216;sex&#8217; as &#8216;gender identity&#8217; wherever they could, including in landmark pro-woman legislation like Title IX, and they continued&nbsp;to&nbsp;label anything contrary as &#8216;extreme&#8217; through the 2024 election.&nbsp;<\/p>\n<\/p>\n<p>Concerned&nbsp;Women&nbsp;for America LAC&nbsp;exit polling&nbsp;suggests this issue played an outsized role in the election, and the&nbsp;Democrats&nbsp;paid the price with a resounding loss in both chambers of the federal government and the White House. Voters did not buy the lie that their concerns were merely internalized bigotry. And at least some&nbsp;Democrats&nbsp;are finally ready&nbsp;to&nbsp;face the music and speak more openly about it.<\/p>\n<p>The&nbsp;Democrats&#8217;&nbsp;highest-ranking&nbsp;figure has finally addressed one of the biggest political flops of modern history, and while her confession is unsurprising, it should shake the party&nbsp;to&nbsp;its core.&nbsp;<\/p>\n<p>In her recently released book about her presidential candidacy, former Vice President Kamala Harris&nbsp;admits that she,&nbsp;too,&nbsp;shares&nbsp;concerns: &#8216;I agree with the concerns expressed by parents and players that we have&nbsp;to&nbsp;take into account biological factors such as muscle mass and unfair student athletic advantage when we determine who plays on which teams, especially in contact sports.&#8217;&nbsp;<\/p>\n<p>But she added, &#8216;There was no way I was going&nbsp;to&nbsp;go against my very nature and turn on transgender people.&#8217;<\/p>\n<p>And there it is. Tension unmasked. When reality collides with allegiance, the&nbsp;Democrats&nbsp;choose allegiance.<\/p>\n<\/p>\n<p>The&nbsp;highest leaders of the party know they were ignoring the real, reasonable and consequential concerns of millions of&nbsp;women.&nbsp;Abandoning&nbsp;women&nbsp;and their safety was a calculation worth making in their eyes.&nbsp;<\/p>\n<div>\n<div class=\"video-container\">\n<div data-video-tags=\"on_air,on_air|big_weekend_show,personality|johnny_jones,personality|molly_line,personality|joe_concha,personality|gerri_willis,primary_politics\" data-video-title=\"Pete Buttigieg and Gavin Newsom shift their stance on transgender athletes in women\"> <\/div>\n<\/div>\n<\/div>\n<p>Harris is not alone. California Gov. Gavin Newsom has publicly&nbsp;admitted&nbsp;that this is &#8216;an issue of fairness \u2013 it\u2019s deeply unfair.&#8217; Yet, his state is one of the worst offenders of&nbsp;women\u2019s rights in this area.<\/p>\n<p>On this Worldwide X\/X Day (Real Women\u2019s Day),&nbsp;the good news is that some party members are choosing reality and&nbsp;abandoning&nbsp;ship. Just a few weeks ago, 10 House&nbsp;Democrats&nbsp;voted, for the first time, for a National Defense Authorization Act&nbsp;amendment&nbsp;that would keep men from competing on&nbsp;women\u2019s athletic teams at service academies. Just a few months ago, most of these same members refused&nbsp;to&nbsp;vote for a&nbsp;bill&nbsp;with similar protections.&nbsp;<\/p>\n<p>As we hope this issue joins the parade of failed civil rights attacks of times gone by, voters and candidates alike should heed the warning. Never stand for a lie. Truth is our only sure foundation. Policy must be based on reality.<\/p>\n<p>We know wrong when we see it. It is instinctive, and often clearly on display, like that photo of Riley Gaines\u2019 medal being given&nbsp;to&nbsp;a male.<\/p>\n<\/p>\n<div>This post appeared first on FOX NEWS<\/div>\n<p><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Nothing woke America up&nbsp;to&nbsp;the realities of gender ideology quicker than the photo of Riley Gaines standing next&nbsp;to&nbsp;her National Championship opponent, a 6\u20191&#8242; male&nbsp;towering over her with his broad shoulders and smoldering grin. You felt it in your bones \u2013 this isn\u2019t right.&nbsp; The moment sparked a nationwide campaign to&nbsp;try and convince everyday Americans that this&hellip;<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":4053,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[5],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-4052","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-world-news"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/thetradingdictionary.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/4052","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/thetradingdictionary.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/thetradingdictionary.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/thetradingdictionary.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/thetradingdictionary.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=4052"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/thetradingdictionary.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/4052\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/thetradingdictionary.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/4053"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/thetradingdictionary.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=4052"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/thetradingdictionary.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=4052"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/thetradingdictionary.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=4052"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}