Rep. Alexandria Ocasio-Cortez, D-N.Y., was once again the subject of a viral roasting campaign after an unhinged altercation on the House floor on Tuesday.
Ocasio-Cortez spoke out against The Protection of Women and Girls in Sports Act in a two-minute tirade that contained both false and unsubstantiated claims. Her speech ended with an inexplicable claim that “CEOs love this bill” as it relates to the ongoing California Wildfires.
The bill ultimately passed and will now go to the Senate after all 216 House Republicans voted in favor, along with just two Democrats. Meanwhile, 206 Democrats, including Ocasio-Cortez, voted against the bill.
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Rep. Alexandria Ocasio-Cortez, D-N.Y., speaks during a rally for the Biden-Harris presidential campaign at the Fremont Country Club on Thursday, June 20, 2024, in Las Vegas. (Ellen Schmidt/Las Vegas Review-Journal/Tribune News Service via Getty Images)
Ocasio-Cortez opened her argument by referencing Republicans’ history of voting against the “Violence Against Women Act” and an apparently false claim referring to their position on abortion rights.
“Republicans who have consistently voted against violence against women are taking actions that have stripped all women of their right to choose and control their own bodies, who, while women bleed out in parking lots across the country, stand by and allow us to die, will now pretend today that they care for women!” Ocasio-Cortez said.
Abortion is currently protected by state law in 21 states and the District of Columbia, and President-elect Trump has repeatedly insisted that, under his administration, abortion rights will be left up to the states.
Ocasio-Cortez was also one of many Democrats who made unsubstantiated claims that the law would expose young girls to sexual predators.
“And why? To open up gender, and yes, gender studies of little girls in this country, in the so-called name of attacking trans girls!” Ocasio-Cortez continued.
Nowhere in the bill does it state that girls or women must undergo gender tests in order to participate in sports. However, Ocasio-Cortez, along with House Minority Leader Hakeem Jeffries and other Democrats who oppose it, have cited that possibility as their main argument in opposing the act.
“The majority is saying right now there’s no place in this bill that says it opens up genitalia. Well, here’s the thing, there’s no enforcement mechanism in this bill. And when there’s no enforcement mechanism, you open up the door to any enforcement mechanism!” Ocasio-Cortez said.
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On election morning, Congresswoman Alexandria Ocasio-Cortez campaigns for re-election on November 8, 2022 in the Woodside neighborhood of Queens, New York. (Andrew Lichtenstein/Corbis via Getty Images)
The bill makes it a violation of Title IX of the Education Amendments of 1972 for federally funded educational programs or activities to operate, sponsor, or facilitate athletic programs or activities that allow individuals of the male gender to participate in programs or activities intended to women or girls.
According to the bill sex is based on an individual’s reproductive biology and genetics at birth.
Ocasio-Cortez has been a consistent advocate for trans inclusion in women’s sports and has previously used the word “predator” to describe those who oppose it. In November, Ocasio-Cortez shared a video of Green Party VP candidate Butch Ware speaking out against trans inclusion in women’s sports, with a caption that read, “This ticket is predatory and people deserve better.”
And now, despite many in her party and liberal media figures publicly rejecting support for trans inclusion, Ocasio-Cortez is not wavering in her stance on what a woman or girl is.
“Trans girls are girls!” That’s what Ocasio-Cortez said at Tuesday’s hearing.
Ocasio-Cortez then launched into a series of disjointed and unfinished sentences about the issue.
“And to all the people who are so concerned, thank you for your concern for women for the first time that I’ve seen. I don’t know about you. I don’t know who’s been to gym class lately, but girls, even if you only believe that there are only two genders, I’ve been playing co-ed sports all along!” she said before moving on to another point.

Rep. Alexandria Ocasio-Cortez (D-NY) speaks during a news conference at Jacobi Hospital in the Morris Park neighborhood on June 3, 2021 in the Bronx neighborhood of New York City. (Michael M. Santiago/Getty Images)
Ocasio-Cortez’s next point was to warn that the bill could result in an appreciation of traditional femininity.
“What this also opens the door to is women trying to perform a very specific kind of femininity for just the kind of men who are drafting this bill, opening up the questioning of who is a woman because of how we look, how we present ourselves, and yes, what we chose to do with our bodies,” she said.
The bill does not address anything to do with how biological women dress, present themselves, or any anatomical or bodily decisions.
Ocasio-Cortez ended her speech by claiming the bill is “loved” by “bigwigs” and “assaults” before making her inexplicable connection to CEOs and the California Wildfires.
“Big people love this bill. Assailants love this bill, but CEOs love this bill, too. Because Los Angeles is burning right now, and this is the first priority that this majority has,” she said before leaving the podium.
Ocasio-Cortez was the subject of heavy criticism on social media for her tirade later Tuesday.
Ocasio-Cortez previously co-sponsored the Gender Equality Act, which was proposed in 2019 and had revisions that “would force public schools to allow biologically male athletes who identify as transgender on girls’ sports teams.”
In March 2023, Democrats including Ocasio-Cortez advocated for a transgender rights bill and proposed a resolution “recognizing that it is the duty of the federal government to develop and implement a Transgender Bill of Rights.”
But now the issue of preventing trans inclusion has become a bipartisan priority that Republicans and Trump have simply taken the lead on.