Sin. Tommy TubervilleRepublican of Ala., is leading the push for a national ban on transgender athletes in college sports.
Tuberville previously told Fox News Digital will reintroduce the Protecting Women and Girls in Sports Act to Congress after a new House rules package passed last week, which would financially penalize schools if they allow transgender athletes to compete against girls and women.
For the Republican, who has been a longtime advocate of the bill, some decisions made over the past four years under the Biden administration are the driving force behind his urgency on the issue.
“It's unfortunate what happened here over the last four years. It was an attack on gender, it was really an attack on women, all women,” Tuberville said during an interview on OutKick. “Don't deal with me Dan Dakich.”
“They don't like women,” he said. “They like everyone to think when they're born, you're not a woman, you're actually a man wearing women's clothes.”
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Sen. Tommy Tuberville, Republican of Alabama, speaks during a television interview before former President Donald Trump speaks at Trump National Golf Club in Bedminster, New Jersey, on Tuesday, June 13, 2023. (AP Photo/Andrew Harnick)
The Biden administration, along with other Democrats, has taken sweeping action over the past four years to enable transgender athletes to play women's and girls' sports.
On January 20, 2021, just hours after President Biden took office, he issued a statement Executive order On “preventing and combating discrimination based on gender identity or sexual orientation”.
This order included a section that read: “Children should be able to learn without worrying about whether they will be denied access to the bathroom, the locker room, or school sports.”
Biden issued a sweeping rule clarifying that Title IX's ban on “sex” discrimination in schools covers discrimination based on gender identity, sexual orientation, and “pregnancy or related conditions,” in April. The administration insisted that the regulation did not address athletic eligibility. However, many experts Evidence provided She told Fox News Digital in June that she would eventually put more biological men in women's sports.
Multiple states filed lawsuits and enacted their own laws to address this problem, then supreme court They then voted 5-4 in August to reject an emergency request from the Biden administration to impose its sweeping changes in those states.
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Democrats have proposed other federal legislation that would allow more transgender people to be included in women's sports. These include Equality Actwhich was proposed in 2019 and has seen revisions that “would force public schools to allow biologically male athletes who identify as transgender on girls’ sports teams.”
In March 2023, Democrats called for and proposed a transgender rights bill resolution “Recognizing that it is the duty of the federal government to develop and implement a Transgender Bill of Rights.” decision He specifically called for a federal law ensuring that biological men can “participate in team sports and in programs that best match their gender identity; (and) use school facilities that best match their gender identity.”
Multiple national Scandals broke out As a result of these laws, and other Democratic laws at the state level, in 2024 alone. The issue became one of the strongest points of attack by the Trump campaign and other Republicans when they regained control of the White House and both chambers of Congress in November, with many Democrats withdrawing from their previous support for transgender inclusion amid an insurmountable backlash. . Biden's Education Department even had to withdraw a proposed rule that would have prohibited states from banning transgender inclusion in December.
A National exit poll The Concerned Women for America Legislative Action Committee found that 70% of moderate voters saw the issue of “Donald Trump's opposition to transgender boys and men playing girls and women's sports and transgender boys and men's use of girls' and women's restrooms” as important. to them.
Additionally, 6% said it was the most important issue of all, while 44% said it was “very important.”
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Senator Tommy Tuberville (R-AL) speaks at a news conference outside the US Capitol on April 27, 2023 in Washington, DC (Anna Moneymaker/Getty Images)
Now, Tuberville's bill would be the first step toward making their case on the issue come election season.
He will maintain this measure Which Chapter Nine deals with Gender as “recognized based solely on a person's reproductive biology and genetics at birth” and does not modify it to apply to gender identity.
The bill also prohibits federal funding from being directed toward sports programs that allow biological men to participate in girls' and women's sports.
The measure is co-sponsored by 23 Republican senators, including Senators James Risch and Mike Crapo of Idaho, Ron Johnson of Wisconsin, Thom Tillis and Ted Budd of North Carolina, Shelley Moore Capito of West Virginia, and Kevin Cramer. . , R.N.D., Cindy Hyde-Smith and Roger Wicker of Mississippi, Tom Cotton, R-Ark., James Lankford, R-Oklahoma, Steve Daines and Tim Sheehy of Montana, Roger Marshall, R-Kansas, Mike Lee, R-Utah, and John Kennedy, R-R. Los Angeles, John Barrasso and Cynthia Lummis of Wyoming, and Eric Schmidt, Republican of Mauritius. Marsha Blackburn and Bill Hagerty of Tennessee, Katie Britt, Republican of Alabama, and Pete Ricketts, Republican of Nebraska.
New Senate Majority Leader John Thune, R-S.D., has already given Tuberville's bill the proper blessing to move forward, and a vote on the measure could come as soon as this weekend.
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