Sen. Tommy Tuberville, R-Alabama, is leading the fight for a national ban on trans athletes in college sports.
Tuberville previously told Pak Gazette Digital that he will reintroduce the Women and Girls in Sports Protection Act to Congress after the House’s new rules package passed last week, which would financially punish schools if they allow that trans athletes compete against girls and women.
For the Republican, who has been a longtime supporter of the bill, certain decisions that have been made over the past four years under the Biden administration are the driving force behind his urgency on this issue.
“It’s a shame what’s happened here in the last four years. It’s been an attack on gender, it’s actually been an attack on women, all women,” Tuberville said during an interview on “Don’t @ Me With Dan Dakich” by OutKick. “
“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 dressed as a woman.'”
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Sen. Tommy Tuberville, R-Alabama, speaks during a television interview before former President Donald Trump speaks at Trump National Golf Club in Bedminster, New Jersey, Tuesday, June 13, 2023. (AP Photo/Andrew Harnik)
The Biden administration, along with other Democrats, has taken sweeping steps over the past four years to allow trans athletes to participate in women’s and girls’ sports.
On January 20, 2021, just hours after President Biden took office, he issued a executive order on “Prevention and fight against discrimination based on gender identity or sexual orientation.”
This order included a section that stated, “Children should be able to learn without worrying about whether they will be denied access to the bathroom, locker room, or school sports.”
Biden issued a sweeping rule in April clarifying that Title IX’s ban on “sex” discrimination in schools covers discrimination based on gender identity, sexual orientation, and “pregnancy or related conditions.” The administration insisted that the regulation does not address athletic eligibility. However, several experts evidence presented to Pak Gazette Digital in June that would ultimately include more biological males in women’s sports.
Several states filed lawsuits and enacted their own laws to address this problem, and then the Supreme Court then voted 5-4 in August to reject an emergency request from the Biden administration to enforce its sweeping changes in those states.
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Democrats have proposed other federal legislation that would allow greater inclusion of transgender people in women’s sports. These include the Equality Lawwhich was proposed in 2019 and has seen revisions that would “force public schools to allow biologically male athletes who identify as transgender on women’s sports teams.”
In March 2023, Democrats advocated for a transgender bill of rights and proposed a resolution “recognizing that it is the duty of the Federal Government to develop and implement a Transgender Bill of Rights.” the resolution specifically called for a federal law to ensure that biological males can “participate in sports on teams and in programs that best align with their gender identity; [and] use school facilities that best align with their gender identity.”
Multiple national scandals erupted as a result of these laws, and other state-level Democratic laws, in 2024 alone. The issue became one of the strongest points of attack by the Trump campaign and other Republicans as they retook control of the White House and both houses of Congress in November, as many Democrats have withdrawn their previous support for trans inclusion amid an overwhelming backlash. . Biden’s education department was even forced to withdraw a proposed rule in December that would prohibit states from banning trans inclusion.
TO national exit poll conducted by Concerned Women for America’s legislative action committee found that 70% of moderate voters considered the issue of “Donald Trump’s opposition to transgender boys and men playing girls’ and women’s sports and to boys and men” important. transgender people use girls’ and women’s bathrooms. them.
Additionally, 6% said it was the most important issue of all, while 44% said it was “very important.”
Senator Tommy Tuberville (R-AL) speaks at a press conference in front of the United States Capitol Building on April 27, 2023 in Washington, DC. (Anna Moneymaker/Getty Images)
Now, Tuberville’s bill will be the first step in making good on his stance on the issue during the election season.
The measure would maintain that Title IX addresses Gender is “recognized based solely on a person’s reproductive biology and genetics at birth” and does not adjust it to apply to gender identity.
The bill would also prohibit federal funds from going to sports programs that allow biological males to participate in women’s and girls’ sports.
The measure is co-sponsored by 23 Republican senators, including Sens. James Risch and Mike Crapo of Idaho, Ron Johnson, R-Wis., Thom Tillis and Ted Budd of North Carolina, Shelley Moore Capito, RW.Va., 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-Kan., Mike Lee, R-Kan. Utah, John Kennedy, R-La., John Barrasso and Cynthia Lummis of Wyoming, Eric Schmitt, R-Mo., Marsha Blackburn and Bill Hagerty of Tennessee, Katie Britt, R-Alabama, and Pete Ricketts, R-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 take place as soon as the end of the week.
