Green Party vice-presidential nominee Butch Ware came out against allowing biological men to compete in womenâs sports in a video circulating on social media.
The Green Party is known to frequently run to the left of the Democratic Party on several issues, often championing social justice and diversity causes like gender identity. Ware called allowing biological men to compete with women âunfairâ in a video posted on X, a position that appears strikingly out of step with the partyâs platform.
âI donât think that biological males should play in female sports,â Ware said. âIt gives an unfair competitive advantage.â
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The issue of biological males who identify as transgender competing in womenâs sports became a hotly debated topic following Lia Thomasâs participation in the 2022 NCAA championships, where the biological male won the 500-yard womenâs final.
Multiple college teams elected to forfeit matches against San Jose State Universityâs womenâs volleyball team due to the presence of a biological male on the San Jose State roster, according to the Los Angeles Times. The transgender player also spiked a ball into the face of a San Diego State University female player during an Oct. 10 match, the New York Post reported.
North Carolina high school volleyball player Payton McNabb suffered a career-ending concussion when a transgender playerâs spike hit her in the face in a similar play during a September 2022 volleyball match. McNabb described ongoing medical symptoms in legislative testimony given in April 2023.
Former President Donald Trumpâs campaign has run ads featuring Vice President Kamala Harris discussing how she pushed âbehind the scenesâ for transgender prisoners to receive sex changes, while Trump said he supported banning biological men from competing in womenâs sports during an Oct. 16 town hall moderated by Fox News host Harris Faulkner.
Harris and Trump are deadlocked at 47.1% in surveys where Green Party candidate Dr. Jill Stein, independent candidate Cornel West and Libertarian candidate Chase Oliver are included, with Stein pulling 1.1% of the vote. Harris trails Trump in five battleground states, according to the RealClearPolling average, and her leads in Wisconsin and Michigan are smaller than Steinâs support.
Muslim families in Montgomery County, Maryland, protested the refusal of the Montgomery County, Maryland, school board to allow parents to opt their children out of âgender-identityâ lessons in 2023.
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