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NYSYR Target Misleading Prop 1 Statewide Ballot Measure in New Digital Ad

By October 25, 2024News

ALBANY, NY — The Association of New York State Young Republican Clubs (NYSYR) announced today the launch of a new digital ad targeting the controversial statewide ballot proposal widely referred to as ‘Prop 1’.

Democrats have attempted to mislead voters by claiming that Prop 1 would protect abortion access in New York even though it is already codified in state law and the text of the amendment doesn’t mention the word abortion even once.

In reality, Prop 1 jeopardizes the fairness of athletic competitions by forcing schools to include biological males on female sports teams and even encourages shared locker rooms and bathrooms.  Further, because the text of the amendment is so vaguely written, Prop 1 weakens parental rights by granting minor children the right to transgender and other types of medical procedures while removing parental consent from their child’s healthcare decisions.

The ad, titled ‘She Earned It’, depicts a series of young female athletes celebrating their achievement only to have it stolen by a biological male athlete.  It can be viewed on YouTube at youtu.be/gN5J2AtOGOUNYSYR will run the ad across multiple mediums, including on social media and streaming platforms, through New York’s Early Voting period until Election Day.

In June, the New York Post reported on a survey conducted earlier this year by the Los Angeles Times and University of Chicago revealing that 66% of Americans opposed biological boys competing in girls’ sports and 69% opposed biological men competing in women’s sports.

“Prop 1 is written by the same incompetent and radical extremists who wrote New York’s disastrous bail reform law and gave driver’s licenses to illegal migrants — both of which had to be fixed by state lawmakers after their passage to correct careless errors and close dangerous loopholes,” said Peter Giunta, NYSYR Chairman. “It is so important that New Yorkers aren’t fooled again by Democrats’ careless policymaking because it will be near-impossible to fix something that is constitutionally enacted after the fact.  We only have one chance to get this right.”

“True feminism is protecting women and their spaces from the distorted liberal ideology that men can be women or fairly compete against them in sports.  You can’t be pro-women’s rights while pushing an agenda that harms girls, invades their privacy, and disrespects their biological differences,” said Karina Wigger, Chair of the NYSYR Women’s Caucus and Orange County Young Republicans“All women, defenders of women’s rights, and girl dads everywhere should reject this insanity and vote for those who will stop it.”

“It’s wildly ironic that the Left’s definition of ‘protecting women’ doesn’t include women at all and, instead, caters to a loud contingent of misguided biological men.  The bottom line is this: women need protection,” said Rebeca Oliveira, NYSYR Executive Director“To those who opt to stand idly by while our institutional safeguards are slowly and methodically removed one by one — be assured that history will not look upon you favorably.” 

“It was 1981 when women’s sports were finally recognized by the National Collegiate Athletics Association — yet, here we are, some 40 years later still fighting to recognize our female athletes,” said DawnMarie Kuhn, Chair of the Suffolk County Young Republicans“It is sickening that this proposal would further erode those efforts and allow girls and women’s sports to be infiltrated by biological men.”