Save Women’s Sports founder: ‘This is not an anti-Lia campaign, it’s a pro-woman campaign’

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An amateur powerlifter and advocate for the right for women to compete in sports against women protested outside of the NCAA swimming championships for three days straight, where swimmer Lia Thomas became the first transgender Division I national champion in any sport on Thursday.

“This is not an anti-Lia campaign,” Beth Stelzer told The New York Post. “It’s a pro-woman campaign. We think everyone should play sports fairly.”

As Stelzer protested outside of the McAuley Aquatic Center in Atlanta starting on Wednesday, she was surrounded by many other women fighting on behalf of the organization she founded called Save Women’s Sports which is “a coalition that fights to preserve sex-based eligibility for female sports.”

Some of her fellow protesters were sporting pins that read “Adult Human Female” and explained their disillusionment with the Democratic Party.

“Feminism has become so muddied, much like the term Democrat has become so muddied. It’s practically lost all meaning,” Amy E. Sousa said who described herself to Fox News as a “radical feminist.”


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“I am a lifelong registered Democrat who ultimately feels politically homeless,” Sousa continued. “With the whole Biden election, I began to feel more and more disenfranchised from Democrats as a party, and I began to feel more and more that they did not represent my beliefs or my views.”

Sousa called it “a slap in the face” when President Joe Biden issued an executive order redefining protections against sex-based discrimination to include gender identity or sexual orientation. “From that moment I really haven’t known how to categorize myself politically.”

Another protester and Save Women’s Sports advocate expressed similar sentiments about the Democratic party and why she flipped red.

“I always voted as a liberal, from 18 to 39,” she said. “I registered Republican in 2020 after two politicians told me they did not want my vote because of my stance on the rights for women and girls.”

Stelzer explained her presence at the event, “Our intention was to respectfully raise awareness while letting the girls know they matter and that we will hold the line for them.”

The powerlifter also made her voice heard on social media where she vowed to “continue to shine a light on this abuse and erasure of women.”

Stelzer started her non-profit after a transgender woman, JayCee Cooper attempted to compete in the 2019 USA Powerlifting Women’s State Championship where Stelzer was also hoping for a win.

“I’m just an average American mom and I thought it was a joke at first,” Stelzer noted. “It threw me down a rabbit hole of what turned out to be the erasure of women in sports.”

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