Elizabeth Warren gives mocking gesture while helping to block bill keeping males out of women's sports

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Sen. Elizabeth Warren, D-Mass., made her position visibly clear on whether she believes women and girls should be protected from trans inclusion in sports. 

Warren was seen giving an exaggerated thumbs down gesture while voting no on the Protection of Women and Girls in Sports Act Monday night. 

Warren held her thumb down for several seconds in the face of the clerk tallying her vote. The clerk even had to tell Warren, "I got you," to assure her that her vote had been counted as the senator held her gesture for an exaggerated amount of time. 

Footage of the senator's gesture prompted widespread backlash on social media, especially by women's rights activists. 

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Sen. Elizabeth Warren questions Treasury Secretary Janet Yellen during a Senate Finance Committee hearing on March 16, 2023, on Capitol Hill. (AP Photo/Jacquelyn Martin, File)

Independent Council on Women's Sports co-founder Marshi Smith condemned Warren in a response on X. 

"Hard to believe someone could hate little girls who just want a spot on the girls’ team and the girls’ podium this much," Smith wrote. 

The British U.K.-based feminist YouTuber Kellie-Jay Keen questioned how anyone in the U.S. could vote for someone like Warren in an X response. 

"Why would any woman in the USA continue to support these woman hating a--holes?" Keen wrote.

Feminist author Kara Dansky, a Democrat, replied to the clip by posting a long X response that included a note she wrote to Warren ahead of the 2020 election.

"The Democratic party is pushing the