Monday 16 May 2022 10:46 PM Republican Sen Cynthia Lummis apologizes after she was BOOED for saying there ... trends now
Republican Sen. Cynthia Lummis apologized on Monday after being jeered and booed by students for using a University of Wyoming graduation speech to declare that it was a 'fundamental scientific truth' that there were only two sexes.
Dozens of people took to social media to accuse her of delivering a political tirade rather than the sort of uplifting comments expected.
'My reference to the existence of two sexes was intended to highlight the times in which we find ourselves, times in which the metric of biological sex is under debate with potential implications for the shared Wyoming value of equality,' her statement read.
'I share the fundamental belief that women and men are equal, but also acknowledge that there are biological differences and circumstances in which these differences need to be recognized.
'That being said, it was never my intention to make anyone feel unwelcomed or disrespected, and for that I apologize.'
During her address on Sunday, Lummis, 67, said fundamental freedoms were under attack in the United States.
Republican Sen. Cynthia Lummis angered her audience at the University of Wyoming on Sunday by saying: 'Even fundamental scientific truths, such as the existence of two sexes - male and female - are subject to challenge these days'
Lummis was jeered and heckled after she made the remarks. On Monday she issued an apology saying she had not meant to make anyone feel 'unwelcomed or disrespected'
'There are those in government who believe, not that the Creator endowed us within alienable rights as the founders of our nation acknowledged in the Declaration of Independence,' she said, 'but that government created those rights, and that government should redefine those rights, including our rights to freedom of speech, religion, property assembly and to keep and bear arms.
'Even
