Sen. Tommy Tuberville says Dems. want women to go extinct while promoting his anti-trans bill

While promoting his anti-trans sports bill, Sen. Tommy Tuberville (R-AL) claimed Democrats not only hate women but are trying to make the entire gender extinct.

Tuberville recently introduced the “Protection of Women in Olympic and Amateur Sports Act” along with Rep. Gregory Steube (R-FL). The legislation seeks to ban all trans women from participating on any team recognized by the U.S. Olympic Committee. The bill would affect amateur sports outside of the Olympics as well.

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Others called the lawmaker “pathetic,” “ineffective,” and an “ignorant attention seeker.”

While promoting the bill on Newsmax, Tuberville claimed he sees Title IX as “the best law ever come up with up here in Washington, D.C.” and said that it’s being denigrated by trans folks because “the Democratic Party is totally against gender.”

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“They do not like women,” he said. “They want women to be extinct and now they’re getting into athletics to make sure that ‘Hey, let’s don’t let women learn from sports. Let’s attack them by letting biological men compete against them.'”

Tuberville then claimed it has become “legal in the Olympics for men to be able to box against women.” USA Boxing does not, in fact, allow men to box against women; it allows trans women to compete as women and has put very strict rules in place that will exclude many trans women. Other international sports governing bodies have alternately allowed and banned trans women from competing, based on their individual guidelines.

He said the Democrats have “no common sense” and don’t think “about the future for anybody other than themselves.” He also accused them of breaking the law for wanting to be inclusive of trans folks.

Last year, Steube introduced a transgender sports ban in the House that was passed along party lines. It has gone nowhere in the Democratic Senate.

The bill comes shortly after the International Olympic Committee (IOC) issued a new requirement that trans women athletes complete their transition before the age of 12. It’s unclear what they are defining as a “complete” transition; if they require that surgery happen before the age of 12, they have effectively banned all trans women since gender-affirming bottom surgery is not performed on minors.

It’s unlikely that Steube’s and Tuberville’s new bill will pass the Democratic Senate, if it even comes up for a vote in the House. But the introduction of the bill shows that Republicans want to make trans people’s right to participate in sports an issue in the 2024 elections.

Tuberville has become known for his 10-month blockade of over 400 military promotions to protest so-called “woke” military policies that promoted LGBTQ+ inclusion and abortion access. Those policies remain in place. One high-ranking military officer told the Senate that it will take years for the military to recover from the blockade.