Other users said it was an outrage that a person born a biological male was celebrated on a day carved out for women.
Politician Karoline Leavitt, the Republican nominee for the House in New Hampshire, also tweeted, “Why are the Democrats working overtime to push the trans agenda?”
Rueda made TIME Magazine’s TIME 100 list last year and was applauded in the East Room of the White House alongside recipients who hailed from all over the world: Afghanistan, Central African Republic, Costa Rica, Ethiopia, Jordan, Kazakhstan, Malaysia, Mongolia, Poland, and Ukraine.
