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Tuberville: Fellow Senate Republicans opposed his bill to keep biological males out of female sports
Just the News ^ | 22 Feb, 2024 | Charlotte Hazard

Posted on 02/23/2024 7:04:47 AM PST by MtnClimber

Sen. Tommy Tuberville said Thursday that some fellow Senate Republicans were against his "Protection of Women and Girls in Sports Act," drafted to prevent biological men from competing in women's sports.

"We know the Democrats aren't gonna vote for it, but I actually had a couple of Republicans who voted against me on this," Tuberville said at the annual CPAC event outside of Washington, D.C., in suburban Maryland. "I went to them and asked, 'Don't you have a daughter? Don't you have granddaughters? I mean, what planet are you coming from?'"

Tuberville introduced the bill last year, and said Thursday that it is unfair and wrong for biological men to compete against biological women in girls' sports.

The legislation is still in the first stage of the legislative process.

He also criticized USA Boxing for its new policy that allows boxers who transition from male to female to compete in the female category, according to The New York Post.

"Someone's gonna get hurt," the Alabama senator said.

He also said that there's "zero common sense in the clown world."


TOPICS: Education; Society; Sports
KEYWORDS: genderdysphoria
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1 posted on 02/23/2024 7:04:47 AM PST by MtnClimber
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2 posted on 02/23/2024 7:04:57 AM PST by MtnClimber (For photos of scenery and wildlife, click on my screen name for my FR home page. More photos added.)
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Naming names would be fun.


3 posted on 02/23/2024 7:06:10 AM PST by Paladin2
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To: MtnClimber

Name names.


4 posted on 02/23/2024 7:06:27 AM PST by aMorePerfectUnion
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To: aMorePerfectUnion; Paladin2

I bet Murkowski and Collins would be two of them.


5 posted on 02/23/2024 7:11:19 AM PST by FamiliarFace (I got my own way of livin' But everything gets done With a southern accent Where I come from. TPetty)
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To: MtnClimber
How about we just stop pretending that this is even a matter for the Federal government to deal with at all. In fact, there's no way to reconcile Federal Title IX requirements in education with the idea of segregated sports teams anyway.

My advice is to get the hell away from this issue and let the participants deal with it themselves.

The only thing that rivals virtue-signaling by the left is virtue-signaling by the right.

6 posted on 02/23/2024 7:12:21 AM PST by Alberta's Child (If something in government doesn’t make sense, you can be sure it makes dollars.)
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All it takes is for girls to refuse to participate in anything involving trannies


7 posted on 02/23/2024 7:12:37 AM PST by bigbob ( )
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To: FamiliarFace

And I’d guess Romney as well.


8 posted on 02/23/2024 7:13:03 AM PST by OttawaFreeper ("The Gardens was founded by men-sportsmen-who fought for their country" Conn Smythe, 1966 )
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To: FamiliarFace

Give us names Tuberville.


9 posted on 02/23/2024 7:13:48 AM PST by Chgogal (Welcome to Fuhrer Biden's Weaponized Fascist Banana Republic! It's the road to hell.)
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To: MtnClimber

It is just so hard to grasp how people have simply lost touch with normal and reality. I mean seriously, just a decade or so ago these people would have been ostracized as the lunatics they have now become.


10 posted on 02/23/2024 7:14:47 AM PST by Obadiah
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“My advice is to get the hell away from this issue and let the participants deal with it themselves.”

Yes, leave young girls and their parents to fight and defeat the left and the entire federal government.

Why not just say you support the left winning the war against civilized culture.


11 posted on 02/23/2024 7:17:15 AM PST by jeffersondem
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To: bigbob

I agree, and some have and it looks like more are.


12 posted on 02/23/2024 7:29:48 AM PST by eyeamok
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To: Obadiah

Oh this is easy to answer.

“Those whom the gods seek to destroy they first make mad.”


13 posted on 02/23/2024 7:29:52 AM PST by packagingguy
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The actual women need to boycott any competition that allows cross dressing losers to compete. Yeah, I know. Money. But these dudes are stealing it.


14 posted on 02/23/2024 7:30:18 AM PST by rktman (Destroy America from within? Check! WTH? Enlisted USN 1967 to end up with this💩? 🚫💉! 🇮🇱👍!)
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To: jeffersondem
You're posting here to someone who doesn't even believe public schools should exist ... so I'm not even sure what exactly the "problem" is that people like Sen. Tuberville are trying to solve.

I met with a public forum hosted by an elected state official here in my neck of the woods a few weeks ago. A few of the people in the crowd brought up issues like this and demanded that he "do something" to solve whatever problem they were facing in the local high school.

He brushed off the question by pointing out that it was a matter for the local school district to deal with. When that didn't satisfy them, I stood up and asked a simple question: "Why don't you people just run for the school board and fix these things yourselves?"

Half the crowd cheered me on. The other half grumbled and muttered resentfully.

The worst thing that has happened to this once-great country is that we've come to accept "conditioned helplessness" as a culturally acceptable state of affairs.

15 posted on 02/23/2024 7:34:23 AM PST by Alberta's Child (If something in government doesn’t make sense, you can be sure it makes dollars.)
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What did their voters back home want? Elected officials always say what they want. They need to vote for the wishes of the people in their district.

And if they don’t, if they go along with GOPe to get the committee assignments, Vote them out.


16 posted on 02/23/2024 7:37:29 AM PST by TornadoAlley3 ( I'm Proud To Be An Okie From Muskogee)
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To: bigbob
All it takes is for girls to refuse to participate in anything involving trannies.

The fact that they -- and their parents -- can't even bring themselves to do that speaks volumes about how pathetic so many Americans are.

I made this point when Riley Gaines called for women/girls to boycott sporting events with tranny competitors in a public statement on the subject a few months ago. I pointed out that she has ZERO credibility to even suggest such a thing ... because when SHE was in a position to do exactly that as a competitive swimmer herself, she just climbed up on the starting block and dove into the pool with male competitors.

17 posted on 02/23/2024 7:37:34 AM PST by Alberta's Child (If something in government doesn’t make sense, you can be sure it makes dollars.)
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More will mean less. Encourage the destruction of women’s sports and women’s rights because that’s what females want, proof is in their votes.


18 posted on 02/23/2024 7:39:03 AM PST by blackdog ((Z28.310) Be careful what you say. Your refrigerator may be listening & reporting you.)
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https://youtu.be/lQV-w0pnZ3U?si=z3LBcj8ABFgdfvOA


19 posted on 02/23/2024 7:40:46 AM PST by blackdog ((Z28.310) Be careful what you say. Your refrigerator may be listening & reporting you.)
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Like most Senators, the GOP members have simple test for any piece of legislation: does it serve the interests of my best and closest large donors? Culture war issues that affect the general public barely register.


20 posted on 02/23/2024 7:41:44 AM PST by Rockingham (`)
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