Democrat voters abandoning party after AOC, Jeffries claim anti-trans athlete bill empowers child sexual predators: Progressives have failed!
Democrat lawmakers in Washington, D.C., pushed back against the GOP-led Protection of Women and Girls in Sports act last week with unsubstantiated arguments that the law would enable sexual predators to give genital examinations to young girls.This argument was not rooted in any language within the bill, as Republicans insisted that no genital inspection would ever be necessary and that proof of birth gender could simply be determined with a birth certificate.Still, many prominent Democrats, including House Minority Leader Rep.Hakeem Jeffries, D-N.Y., and Rep.
Alexandria Ocasio-Cortez, D-N.Y., used the sexual predator argument in statements and during testimonies on the House of Representatives floor. This tactic has alienated some of the party’s loyal voters, who have unregistered as Democrats in response. Prominent law professor Gary Francione has been a lifelong Democrat dating back to the 1960s.In November, he voted for Kamala Harris and Rep.
Chrissy Houlahan, D-Pa., who was one of 206 Democrats to vote against the bill last Tuesday. But Francione, who is an advocate for LGBTQ rights, abortion rights and even a vegan and animal rights abolitionist, was so offended by the Democrat representatives who tried to tie the bill to empowering child predators that he unregistered as a Democrat after last Tuesday’s hearing. “That just made me very upset because it screamed out lack of integrity, lack of honesty,” Francione told Fox News Digital in an exclusive interview.“This is the way you fight battles? By trying to insult other people who oppose you and disagree with and insinuate that they’re child molesters or pedophiles? It seems to me you’ve lost the game… I don’t know how they’re ever going to come back from this.” Francione has a lifelong network of other Democrats in the field of law and other industries, and says that many of them share his beliefs and will also be unregistering from the party. “I can say confidently of the peop...