Sen. Tommy Tuberville, R-Ala., is leading the charge for a national ban on trans athletes in college sports.
Tuberville previously told Fox News Digital that he would reintroduce the Protecting Women and Girls in Sports Act to Congress after the new rules passed last week, which would financially punish schools if they allow trans athletes to compete against girls and women.
For the Republican, a longtime advocate of the bill, certain decisions made over the past four years under the Biden administration are the driving force behind his urgency on this issue.
“It’s just a shame what’s happened here over the last four years. It’s an attack on gender, it’s really an attack on women, all women,” Tuberville said during ‘an interview on OutKick’s. “Don’t @ me with Dan Dakich.”
“They don’t like women,” he said. “They like everyone to think when they were born: ‘you’re not a woman, you’re actually a man dressed as a woman.'”
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Sen. Tommy Tuberville, R-Ala., 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, alongside other Democrats, has taken sweeping steps over the past four years to allow trans athletes to participate in girls’ and women’s sports.
On January 20, 2021, just hours after taking office, President Biden issued a decree on “Preventing and combating discrimination based on gender identity or sexual orientation”.
That order included a section that said: “Children should be able to learn without worrying about whether they will be denied access to restrooms, locker rooms, or school sports.” »
Biden issued a general 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 the rule does not address athlete eligibility. However, several experts presented evidence told Fox News Digital in June that it would ultimately put more biological males in women’s sports.
Several states have 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 implement its sweeping changes in those states.
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Democrats have proposed other federal laws that would allow for greater transgender inclusion in women’s sports. These include the Equality Actwhich was proposed in 2019 and underwent revisions that would “require 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, proposing 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 federal law to ensure that biological males can “participate in sports on teams and programs that best match their gender identity; [and] use school facilities that best match their gender identity.
Multiple national scandals have erupted as a result of these and other state-level Democratic laws in 2024 alone. The issue has become one of the Trump campaign’s most powerful points of attack and d other Republicans when they regained control of the White House and both houses of Congress in November, as many Democrats withdrew their past support for trans inclusion amid insurmountable backlash. . Biden’s Department of Education was even forced to withdraw a proposed rule in December that would prohibit states from banning trans inclusion.
A national exit poll conducted by the legislative action committee Concerned Women for America found that 70 percent of moderate voters considered the issue of “Donald Trump’s opposition to transgender boys and men playing girls and women’s sports and to transgender boys and men using girls and women’s toilets” as important. for them.
Additionally, 6% said it was the most important question of all, while 44% said it was “very important.”
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Senator Tommy Tuberville (R-AL) speaks during a press conference in front of the U.S. Capitol on April 27, 2023 in Washington, DC. (Anna Moneymaker/Getty Images)
Now, Tuberville’s bill will be their first step toward honoring their electoral position on the issue.
The measure would maintain that Title IX deals with gender as “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 funding of sports programs that allow biological males to participate in girls’ and women’s 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, R-W.Va. , Kevin Cramer. , R-N.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, R-S.D., has already given Tuberville’s bill the necessary blessing to move forward, and a vote on the measure could take place as early as the end of the week.
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