Senate Democrats confronted backlash on Monday after the Safety of Girls and Ladies in Sports activities Act did not garner the votes it wanted to interrupt the filibuster.
Republicans wanted 60 votes however solely obtained 51. No Democrats sided with Republicans on the invoice. Two Democrats have been absent from the vote, as have been two Republicans. The invoice failed, 51-45.
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President Donald Trump indicators an government order barring organic male transgender athletes from competing in girls’s or ladies’ sporting occasions on Feb. 5, 2025. (AP Picture/Alex Brandon)
The Safety of Girls and Ladies in Sports activities Act would require Title IX to deal with gender as “acknowledged primarily based solely on an individual’s reproductive biology and genetics at start” and would disallow any adjustment for it to use to gender id.
The invoice was launched by Sen. Tommy Tuberville, R-Ala., and has greater than 40 co-sponsors within the Senate. It could additionally codify certainly one of Trump’s many latest government orders, giving the coverage higher longevity.Â
Home Speaker Rep. Mike Johnson, R-La., and activists who’ve fought for equity in girls’s and ladies’ sports activities have been amongst those that ripped Senate Democrats over the shortage of assist for the invoice. Two Home Dems voted in favor of the invoice in January.
President Donald Trump indicators an government order barring organic male transgender athletes from competing in girls’s or ladies’ sporting occasions on Feb. 5, 2025. (AP Picture/Alex Brandon)
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“That’s surprising. I can not consider that the Democrats is not going to associate with widespread sense on this and the safety of ladies and ladies,” Johnson informed Fox Information.
Riley Gaines, Jennifer Sey and others weighed in on social media.
President Donald Trump issued an government order final month to ban organic males from competing in girls’s and ladies’ sports activities. The order would withhold federal funding from states that proceed to have transgender inclusion in girls’s and ladies’ sports activities.
Sen. Tommy Tuberville (Victor J. Blue/Bloomberg by way of Getty Photos)
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The Tuberville-backed invoice would have achieved the identical.
Fox Information’ Julia Johnson contributed to this report.
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