Women’s advocacy groups found their tour buses vandalized with vulgar language and allegedly anti-transgender messages.
Members of the Independent Women’s Forum are conducting a 13-city bus tour called “Our Bodies, Our Sports: Reclaiming Title IX” in response to the Biden administration’s changes to the law to give transgender athletes more protections.
Host of OutKick’s “Gaines for Girls” podcast Also taking part in the tour are Riley Gaines, tennis legend Martina Navratilova and Gaines’ fellow NCAA swimmer Paula Scanlan.
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A women’s advocacy group’s tour bus was vandalized overnight. (International Women’s Forum)
The group held a rally in Chapel Hill, North Carolina, on Thursday, but when they left they found their bus “egged and defaced with profanity and misogynistic messages” by “vandals who had been there all night.”
“Radical gender ideologues who want to erase femininity are trying to silence us. We will not give in. Women will not be silenced.” The group wrote to X..
Messages from the vandals included “hate group,” “trans women are women,” “fuck transphobia” and “bigots on board.” A penis was also drawn on the bus.
The Carrboro Police Department told Fox News Digital the amount of damages is unknown.
In addition to the harsh messages, eggs were hurled at the bus. (International Women’s Forum)
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“It’s disgusting, but not surprising, to see such a blatant misogynistic attack on our tour bus, the home base of our travels. This bus is a symbol of a national movement fighting for equal opportunity, fairness and safety for women in sports,” IWF Coalition and Bus Tour Manager Brianna Howard said in a statement. “The Biden Administration’s Title IX amendments are an attack on women in themselves. We are disheartened, but we will remain resolute and continue to take this important message to the rest of the country: women will not be replaced or pushed aside. Our bodies, our sports coalitions, have been working to save women’s sports since 2021, and we have no intention of slowing down anytime soon. This cowardly attack will only make us stronger and more vocal as we ride into Washington DC to amplify our message to the Administration and Congress!”
Gaines added, “It’s astonishing to see this reaction from women who want female-only sports. They have resorted to name-calling, slander and deliberate misrepresentation when they have refused to back down from our position. Now they have added violence and vandalism to their tactics. Common sense, logic, reason, real-life experience and science are on our side. Let’s be clear: trans rights activists don’t want to include women, they want to exclude women.”
When someone responded to the video by saying “this is left wing”, Navrithruba said it had little to do with politics.
“I’m a leftist and I would call people who do this cowards and anarchists who don’t care about women.” She wrote to X.
Former University of Kentucky swimmer Riley Gaines spoke at the event. (Leadership Institute)
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The group will be in Washington, DC, The tour will wrap up on Tuesday, head to Virginia Beach on Thursday and finish up in Nashville on Friday.
