Tommy Tuberville on why he is pushing for the athlete ban bill: ‘There has been an attack on women’

Sen. Tommy Tuberville, R-Ala., is leading the charge for a national ban on transgender athletes in college sports.

Tuberville previously told Fox News Digital that he will reintroduce the Women and Girls in Sports Protection Act to Congress after a package of House rules passed last week, which would penalize schools financially if they allow trans athletes to compete against girls and women.

For the Republican, who has been an advocate of this bill for a long time, certain decisions taken four years ago under the Biden administration are the ones that motivate him on this issue.

“It’s just a shame what’s happened here in the last four years. It’s been a sexist attack, it’s really been an attack on women, all women,” said Tuberville during OutKick’s “Don’t @ Me With Dan Dakich.”

“They don’t like women,” he said. “They want everyone to think when they’re born, ‘You’re not a woman, you’re actually a man in women’s clothes.’

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The Biden administration, along with other Democrats, has taken drastic steps over the past four years to empower trans athletes in women’s and girls’ sports.

On January 20, 2021, a few hours after President Biden took office, he issued a ruling executive order on “Preventing and Combating Discrimination on the Basis of Gender Identity or Sexual Orientation.”

The order included a section that read, “Children should be able to learn without worrying about being banned from the bathroom, hallway, or school games.”

Biden issued sweeping legislation clarifying that Title IX’s ban on “sex” discrimination in schools includes discrimination based on gender identity, sexuality and “pregnancy or related conditions,” in April. Administrators emphasized that the regulation does not address athletic eligibility. However, many experts testify to Fox News Digital in June that it would finally put more natural men in women’s sports.

Many states filed lawsuits and enacted their own laws to deal with the issue, and it followed Supreme Court then they voted 5-4 in August to reject an emergency bid by the Biden administration to enforce their sweeping reforms in those states.

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Democrats have proposed other federal laws that would allow more transgender inclusion in women’s sports. These include Law of Equalityproposed in 2019 and envisions revisions that would “force public schools to allow biologically male athletes who identify as transgender on girls’ sports teams.”

In March 2023, the Democrats represented a transgender rights bill, proposing decision “recognizing that it is the duty of the Federal Government to develop and implement a Transgender Bill of Rights.” The solution specifically called for federal legislation to ensure that natural men can “participate in sports in teams and programs that better align with their gender; [and] use school resources that best match their gender.”

Many national scandals have arisen because of these laws, and other Democratic laws at the federal level, only in 2024. The issue has been one of the strongest points of attack for the Trump campaign and other Republicans as they regain control of the White House and both houses of Congress in November, as many Democrats have backed away from their past support for inclusion amid an insurmountable backlash. . Biden’s Department of Education was even forced to withdraw a proposed law that would have prevented states from banning applications in December.

A national exit poll by the legal committee Concerned Women for America 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 using girls and women’s restrooms,” as important. to them.

Additionally, 6% said it was the most important issue, while 44% said it was “very important.”

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Sen. Tommy Tuberville (R-AL) speaks at a press conference outside the US Capitol Building on April 27, 2023 in Washington, DC. (Anna Moneymaker/Getty Images)

Now, Tuberville’s bill will be their first step in making good on their election season decision on this issue.

The rating will last that Title IX governs gender “as recognized based solely on a person’s reproductive biology and genes at birth” and does not fixate on gender identity.

The bill would also prevent federal funding from going to athletic programs that allow natural men to participate in women’s and girls’ sports.

The measure is 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, RN.D. ., Cindy Hyde-Smith and Roger Wicker of Mississippi, Tom Cotton, R-Ark., James Lankford, R-Okla., Steve Daines and Tim Sheehy of Montana, Roger Marshall, R-Kan., Mike Lee, R-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-Ala., and Pete Ricketts, R-Neb.

New Senate Majority Leader John Thune, RS.D., has already given Tuberville’s bill the necessary blessing to move forward, and a vote on the measure could come as soon as the end of the week.

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