Tommy Tuberville on why he’s pushing legislation to ban trans athletes: ‘There’s been an attack on women’

Sen. Tommy TubervilleR-Ala., is leading the charge for a national ban on trans athletes in college sports.

Tuberville said earlier Fox News Digital will reintroduce the Women and Girls in Sports Act to Congress after a new package of house rules passed last week, which would financially penalize schools for allowing trans athletes to compete against girls and women.

For the Republican, who is a longtime advocate of the law, certain decisions made over the past four years under the Biden administration are the driving force behind his urgency on the issue.

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

“They don’t like women,” he said. “They like that when they’re born everyone thinks ‘you’re not a woman, you’re actually a man in women’s clothing’.”

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

On January 20, 2021, just hours after President Biden took office, he issued executive order on “Prevention and suppression of discrimination based on gender identity or sexual orientation”.

This order included a section that read: “Children should be able to learn without worrying about being denied access to the bathroom, locker room or school sports.”

Biden issued a sweeping rule clarifying that Title IX’s ban on “sex” discrimination in schools covers discrimination based on gender identity, sexual orientation and “pregnancy or related conditions,” in April. The administration has insisted that the regulation does not deal with athletic eligibility. However, more experts presented evidence to Fox News Digital in June that it would ultimately put more biological men in women’s sports.

Several states have filed lawsuits and enacted their own laws to address the issue, and then Supreme Court then voted 5-4 in August to reject an emergency request by the Biden administration to implement its sweeping changes in those states.

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Democrats have proposed other federal legislation that would allow for greater inclusion of transgender people in women’s sports. It includes Law on Equalitywhich was proposed in 2019 and saw revisions that would “force public schools to allow biologically male athletes who identify as transgender on women’s sports teams.”

In March 2023, Democrats pushed for a transgender bill of rights, proposing resolution “recognizing that it is the duty of the federal government to develop and implement a Transgender Bill of Rights.” Resolution specifically called for federal legislation to ensure that biological males can “participate in sports on teams and in programs that best align with their gender identity; [and] they use school facilities that best match their gender identity.”

Multinational scandals broke out as a result of these laws, and other democratic laws at the state level, only in 2024. The issue has become one of the strongest points of attack for the Trump campaign and other Republicans since they regained control of the White House and both houses of Congress in November, as many Democrats backed away from their previous support for trans inclusion amid a backlash. Biden’s Department of Education was even forced to withdraw a proposed rule that would have barred states from banning trans inclusion in December.

AND national exit poll conducted by the legislative action committee Concerned Women for America found that 70% of moderate voters consider the issue of “Donald Trump’s opposition to transgender boys and men playing women’s and women’s sports and transgender boys and men using girls’ and women’s bathrooms” important to them.

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

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Now, Tuberville’s bill will be their first step toward making good on the issue in the election season.

The measure would hold which Title IX addresses gender as “recognized solely on the basis of a person’s reproductive biology and genetics at birth” and does not adapt it to apply to gender identity.

The bill would also prohibit federal funding from going toward athletic programs that allow biological males to participate in women’s and girls’ sports.

The measure is supported 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, RW.Va., Kevin Cramer , RN.D., Cindy Hyde-Smith and Roger Wicker of Mississippi, Tom Cotton, R-Ark., James Lankford, R-Okla., Steve Daines and Tim Sheehy of Montane, 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, RS.D., has already given Tuberville’s bill his blessing to move forward, and a vote on the measure could come as early as the end of the week.

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