Elizabeth Warren gives mocking gesture while helping to block bill keeping males out of women's sports

Sen. Elizabeth Warren, D-Mass., made her presumption visibly wide connected whether she believes women and girls should beryllium protected from trans inclusion successful sports. 

Warren was seen giving an exaggerated thumbs down motion portion voting no connected the Protection of Women and Girls successful Sports Act Monday night. 

Warren held her thumb down for respective seconds successful the look of the clerk tallying her vote. The clerk adjacent had to archer Warren, "I got you," to guarantee her that her ballot had been counted arsenic the legislator held her motion for an exaggerated magnitude of time. 

Footage of the senator's motion prompted wide backlash connected societal media, particularly by women's rights activists. 

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Sen. Elizabeth Warren questions Treasury Secretary Janet Yellen during a Senate Finance Committee proceeding connected March 16, 2023, connected Capitol Hill. (AP Photo/Jacquelyn Martin, File)

Independent Council connected Women's Sports co-founder Marshi Smith condemned Warren successful a effect connected X. 

"Hard to judge idiosyncratic could hatred small girls who conscionable privation a spot connected the girls’ squad and the girls’ podium this much," Smith wrote. 

The British U.K.-based feminist YouTuber Kellie-Jay Keen questioned however anyone successful the U.S. could ballot for idiosyncratic similar Warren successful an X response. 

"Why would immoderate pistillate successful the USA proceed to enactment these pistillate hating a--holes?" Keen wrote.

Feminist writer Kara Dansky, a Democrat, replied to the clip by posting a agelong X response that included a enactment she wrote to Warren up of the 2020 election.

"The Democratic enactment is pushing the communicative that ‘transgender’ and ‘queer’ beryllium successful the aforesaid class arsenic cheery rights, and that is problematic for respective reasons: (1) it is not true, (2) it is atrocious for women and girls, and (3) it is apt to pb to a nonaccomplishment successful 2020," Dansky posted. 

Fox News Digital reached retired to Warren's bureau for comment. 

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Warren has a past of enactment for trans inclusion successful women's and girls' sports and adjacent erstwhile called authorities to forestall it "cruel." 

In February 2020, Warren condemned an Arizona authorities bill, the Save Women's Sports Act, that would person prevented biologic males from competing successful girls' sports. 

"Trans athletes are not a threat," Warren wrote connected X (then known arsenic Twitter). "We request to support trans kids – and each LGBTQ+ kids – and guarantee they consciousness harmless and welcomed astatine school. I impulse the Arizona legislature to cull this cruel bill."

Now, Warren has helped forestall a measure that would connection pistillate athletes the aforesaid protections connected a nationalist level. 

Republicans needed 60 votes but lone received 51. No Democrats sided with Republicans connected the bill. Two Democrats were absent from the vote, arsenic were 2 Republicans. The measure failed, 51-45.

During a caller interrogation connected CNN's "The Arena with Kasie Hunt," Warren was asked wherefore she thought Democrats mislaid to President Donald Trump successful November, and if the enactment had moved excessively acold to the near culturally. Warren's effect indicated that she didn't judge that was the case. 

"I deliberation the occupation is we didn't marque wide what we combat for and truly get retired determination and combat for it. Our occupation close present is beauteous straightforward. Just archer the truth," Warren said.

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Sen. Elizabeth Warren (AP)

A national exit poll conducted by the Concerned Women for America legislative enactment committee recovered that 70% of mean voters saw the contented of "Donald Trump’s absorption to transgender boys and men playing girls' and women’s sports and of transgender boys and men utilizing girls' and women’s bathrooms" arsenic important to them. 

Additionally, 6% said it was the astir important contented of all, portion 44% said it was "very important."

Meanwhile, a caller New York Times/Ipsos canvass recovered that the immense bulk of Americans, including 67% of Democrats, don't judge trans athletes should beryllium capable to vie successful women's sports. 

Last month, a Gallup canvass besides showed a 45% plurality of Democrats and Democratic-leaning independents saying they wanted the enactment to go much moderate, an 11-point summation since the opening of President Joe Biden’s word successful 2021.

The Democratic Party has mostly struggled since Trump’s predetermination successful 2024. In a Quinnipiac University survey conducted during Trump’s archetypal week successful office, lone 31% of respondents had a favorable sentiment of the Democratic Party.

Now, with Senate Democrats voting unanimously to artifact the Protection of Women and Girls successful Sports Act, galore activists, including Riley Gaines, person vowed to assistance unseat the senators who prevented it from passing. 

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