senator. Tommy TubervilleAlabama Republicans are leading a national push to ban transgender athletes from college sports.

Tuberville previously said Fox News Digital Channel He will reintroduce the Protecting Women and Girls in Sports Act to Congress after passing new House rules last week that would financially penalize schools if they allow transgender athletes to compete against girls and women. .

For Republicans who have long supported the bill, certain decisions made by the Biden administration over the past four years are the driving force behind his sense of urgency on the issue.

“What’s happened here over the past four years is really a shame. It’s an attack on gender, it’s really an attack on women, all women,” Tuberville said in an interview with OutKick “Don’t @ me with Dan Dakich.”

“They don’t like women,” he said. “They want everyone to be born thinking, ‘You’re not a woman, you’re actually a man dressed in women’s clothing.'”

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Alabama Republican Sen. Tommy Tuberville gives 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 Harnick)

The Biden administration, along with other Democrats, has taken sweeping action over the past four years to allow transgender athletes to compete in women’s and girls’ sports.

On January 20, 2021, just hours after President Biden was inaugurated, he released executive order Regarding “Preventing and Combating Discrimination on the Basis of Gender Identity or Sexual Orientation.”

The order includes a section that states: “Children should be able to learn without having to worry about whether they will be denied access to bathrooms, locker rooms, or school sports.”

Biden issued a sweeping rule in April clarifying that Title IX’s prohibition on “sex” discrimination in schools covers discrimination based on gender identity, sexual orientation and “pregnancy or related conditions.” The government insists the rule does not address athlete qualifications. But many experts present evidence told Fox News Digital in June that more biological males will eventually be allowed to participate in women’s sports.

Several states filed lawsuits and enacted their own laws to address the problem, and then Supreme Court Then a 5-4 vote in August rejected the Biden administration’s emergency request to implement sweeping changes in those states.

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Democrats have also introduced other federal legislation that would allow more transgender people to participate in women’s sports. These include Equality ActThe bill, introduced in 2019 and now amended, “would force public schools to allow male athletes who biologically identify as transgender to join women’s sports teams.”

In March 2023, Democrats advocated for a transgender rights bill, proposing a resolution “Recognize that it is the responsibility of the federal government to develop and implement a transgender rights bill.” resolution Specifically calling for federal laws to ensure biological males can “participate in team sports and events that best match their gender identity; (and) use school facilities that best match their gender identity.”

multiple countries Scandal breaks out In 2024 alone, these laws, along with other Democratic laws at the state level, will accomplish that goal. As the Trump campaign and other Republicans regain control of the White House and both chambers of Congress in November, the issue has become one of their strongest points of attack as many Democrats abandon the past amid an insurmountable backlash. Support for trans inclusivity. Biden’s Department of Education was even forced to withdraw a proposed rule that would have barred states from banning transgender inclusion in December.

one national exit poll A survey conducted by the Legislative Action Committee for Concerned American Women found that 70% of moderate voters believe “Donald Trump opposes transgender boys and men participating in girls’ and women’s sports and transgender boys and men using girls’ and women’s restrooms.” This issue is very important. to them.

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

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Sen. Tommy Tuberville (R-Ala.) speaks during a news conference outside the U.S. Capitol in Washington, D.C., April 27, 2023 (Anna Chanmemaker/Getty Images)

Now, Tuberville’s bill would be the first step toward making good on their election-season stance on the issue.

This measure will remain in place As stipulated in Article 9 Sex is “identified solely on the basis of a person’s reproductive biology and genetics at birth” and is not adjusted to apply to gender identity.

The bill would also prohibit federal funds from being used for sports that allow biological males to compete in women’s and girls’ sports.

The measure is co-sponsored by 23 Republican senators, including Idaho Sens. James Risch and Mike Crapo, Wisconsin Republican Sens. Ron Johnson, North Carolina Sens. Thom Tillis and Ted Budd, Virginia R-Shelley Moore Capito and Kevin Cramer , R.N., Cindy Hyde Smith, R-Mississippi, and Roger Wicker, R-Ark., Sen. Tom Cotton, R-Ark., James Lankford, R-Okla., R-Mont. Steve Daines and Tim Sheehy, Roger Marshall, R-Kansas, Mike Lee, R-Utah , Louisiana Republican John F. Kennedy, Wyoming Republican John Barrasso and Cynthia Loomis, Missouri Republican Eric Schmidt., Tennessee Republican Marsha Blackburn and Bill Hagerty, Republican Katie Britt of Alabama, and Republican Pete Ricketts of Nebraska.

New Senate Majority Leader John Thune (R-S.D.) has given Tuberville’s bill the proper support to advance it, with a vote on the bill possibly coming as soon as this weekend.

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