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To: U.S. Men's Hockey Team
Apologize and Skip Trump's State of the Union in Solidarity with the U.S. Women's Hockey Team!
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When President Donald Trump invited the U.S. men's hockey team to the State of the Union address, he followed the invitation with: "I must tell you, we're gonna have to bring the women's team, you do know that. I do believe I probably would be impeached."
The entire room of men laughed.
There's no excuse for the U.S. men's team—as well as the president and FBI director—using their platforms to undermine, mock, and denigrate women athletes.
The women's hockey team has made it clear they won't be attending the State of the Union. Now the men’s hockey team must apologize publicly, and do the same.
Why is this important?
The U.S. women’s hockey team set the standard in Milan, winning the gold medal earlier in the week and helping pave the way for a dual hockey win for the U.S. in the same Olympics for the first time ever. And the U.S. women’s team also made history as 22-year-old Laila Edwards became not only the first Black woman in the U.S. Olympic team, but the first Black woman to win an Olympic gold medal for hockey.
And what did they do after their incredible accomplishment? They showed up to the men’s hockey game to cheer their fellow U.S. team on—only to have to hear the men’s team mock them in the locker room afterwards.
It's shameful.
The comments are indicative of the misogynistic culture that has pervasively undermined women’s talent and skill in the field of sports. Trump and MAGA republicans want to weaponize women’s sports to vilify and scapegoat trans and nonbinary athletes, meanwhile they treat women’s sport as a joke—even as women excel at the highest level of their craft and bring home the gold for our country.
The “locker room talk” that we caught a glimpse of is part of the same culture that systemically harms women. We need men to speak out when women athletes are being disrespected—not validate misogyny with their laughter
Every single member of the U.S. men’s hockey team owes the women’s team an apology. And they need to follow their apology up with action. >>Sign the petition