Protection of women and girls in sports: who were Dems who did not support the bill?

No Democrat of Senate on Monday voted to protect women and girls in sports law, which would keep biological males from competition In sports of women and girls.
The procedural voting happened on the floor of the Senate, and the Republicans needed at least 60 votes to break the filibuster. Received 51. Sens. Angus King, I-Maine, and Bernie Sanders, I-Vt., They voted with democrats.
Four senators were not present – Democrats of Elissa Sloodkin from Michigan, and Peter Welch of Vermont, and Republicans Shelley Capito, from West Virginia, and Cynthia Lummis of Wyminging.
Read below for Democratic senators who decided to prevent the account.
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Senator Tammy Baldwin, D-Wis.
Senator Tammy Baldwin Masha after spoke in Chicago at a democratic national convention on 22 August 2024. (Kevin Dietsch/Getty Images)
Baldwin made a Fox News Digital statement on Tuesday.
“Simply put: it’s not a place of federal government to tell national and local sports leagues across the country how to do its job,” she said. “For one I believe our state and local leagues for the preparation of thoughtful policies in which parents and players can be involved in discussing what is best for our children without interfering with the President or Congress.”
Senator Catherine Cortez Masto, D-Nv.
Senator Catherine Cortez Masto speaks during a press conference of Senate Democrats in US Capitol 6 February 2024. (Bill Clark/CQ-Roll Call, Inc via Getty Images)
Cortez Masto said in a statement that he supports righteousness in women’s sport, but was drawing a line when it comes to the allegedly “government exceeding”.
“I support Fair play and security and do not support transgender athletes competing in maiden and women’s sports when it threatens these principles,” she said in a statement. “I believe that local schools, students athletes, coaches and parents are much better equipped to implement honest, strong policies on this issue than politicians in the congress.
“This coverage legislation would allow anyone to undergo girls invasive physical exams just because of the way they look. It is incredibly government overcome and puts young women at an increased risk of abuse and harassment – something I spent against my career fighting against.”
Senator Dick Durbin, D-an.
Senate of the majority whip Richard Durbin speaks after a weekly lunch of Senate in the US Capitol on December 3, 2024. (Kevin Dietsch/Getty Images)
Durbin expressed similar bumps as a cortez mast.
“Put yourself in the shoes of these families for a moment,” Durbin said. “Imagine being a parent of a trans child and tell your child that they are not allowed to play on the same sports team as their friends at school, because the politician said they could not.
“That’s it personally, it’s so important and [because of Republicans,] We will vote in order to vaguely vaguely the right of physical examination of a girl or young woman if other opponent’s team accuses them of being transgender. My God. “
Durbin also pointed to the testimony of NCAA President Charlie Baker to legislators when he said he believed that there were less than 10 transgender athletes in his collegial athletics. The organization later changed its policy after the executive order of President Trump “There are no men in women’s sports”.
Senator John Fetterman, D-Pa.
Senator John Fetterman wrote his reason to vote against the law of law on X. (Getty Images)
In a post on X, Fetterman suggested that he decided to be an ally of “small” contingents of transgender athletes.
“A small handful of trans -athletes in and in political whirlwinds deserves an ally and I am one. Depersonalized as” they/them “in a political ad, but only schoolchildren are empty shows or cruelty on social media are not part of a thoughtful, dignified solution.”
Senator Ruben Gallego, D-ARIZ.
Senator Ruben Gallego said his voters focused on other questions. (Getty Images)
Gallego reduced the problem for his voters in his country.
“Look, if you run and have no other identity and you are not known for fighting people to live decently, buy a home so you can bring an American dream in your family, and these external questions are what will bring you down,” he told NBC News.
“I don’t worry about it, because every day I communicate with my colleagues Arizona to fight for them to make sure that the American dream will live no matter what.”
Senator John Hickenlooper, D-Colo.
Senator John Hickenlooper speaks at a hearing on the Capitol hill March 1, 2023. (Anna Moneymaker/Getty Images)
Hickenlooper told NBC News that Senator Tommy Tuberville, R-Ala, who presented the law of the law, was “trying to throw out social wars about something that doesn’t really exist.” He said Trump’s ad on trance athletes in women’s sports will only work once.
SENS. Tim Kaine and Mark Warner, D-Va.
Senator Tim Kaine talks to reporters. (Reuters)
Kaine and Warner have announced a joint statement, saying that Congress has to focus on other things.
“At this point, the Congress should be focused on making an account that lower the food prices, not those who threaten to seize public schools and American colleges and university in the world class,” they said. “But instead, Republicans are willing to eliminate the Department of Education, while at the same time trying to dictate how individual schools should run their sports programs and submit children with an unpleasant monitoring, invasive examination and even harassment. We will vote to prevent this proposal for the law forward and leave no integration in Athl, and sports sports and states.
Senator Angus King, I-Maine
Senator Angus King listens to during the hearing of the Committee on the Armed Service on the Pete Hegseth nomination to be the Secretary of Defense on January 14, 2025. (Jack Gruber-Ussa today)
King said in a statement that he understood the concerns of students, parents and administrators about righteousness and differences in physicality, but still voted against the proposal of the law.
“However, if one school in Maine decided to involve one trans student in one of its teams, schools in the whole country would lose access to critical financing, which would be harmful to all students, the result is disproportionate to the influence of one trans -school athlete in one school. Although these are complex issues, considerations of independence and safety, which are in accordance with their parents. states at the will of its citizens.
“Therefore, ultimately, it is not comfortable for me to condition all funding of federal education in the question that allocates such a small number of students across the country, using the power of decisions from local communities here in Maine.
“Finally, it is strange to me that many of those who support this legislation have the opposite position when it comes to reproductive choices of women – that the issue should be left to the states – while the issue of transgender athletes requires a federal solution that overpowers local control.”
Senator Gary Peters, D-Mich.
Senator Gary Peters speaks during the Democratic National Convention in Chicago, August 20, 2024. (Reuters/Mike Segar)
Peters told NBC News that he doesn’t seem to resonate with Voters in Michigan.
“This is not really a problem as in Michigan,” he said. “People will realize that this is really a question that Republicans try to use.”
Several democratic senators did not publish a statement or said why they voted the way they did.
These MPs included SENS. Angela Alsobrooks, D-Md., Michael Bennet, D-Colo., Richard Blumenthal, D-Conn., Lisa Blunt Rochester, D-Del., Cory Booker, Dn.j., Maria Cantwell, D-Wash., DD-Del. Maggie Hassan, Dn.h., Martin Heinrich, Dn.m., Mazie Hirono, D-Hawaii, Mark Kelly, D-ARIZ., Andy Kim, Dn.j., Senator Amy Klobuchar, D-Minn., Ben Ray Luján, DN.M., DN.M. D-Conn., Patty Murray, D-Wash., Jon Ossoff, D-Ga., Alex Padilla, D-Calif., Jack Reed, Dr.i., Jacky Rosen, D-Nev., Bernie Sanders, I-Vt., Brian Schatz, D-Hawaii, Adam. Smith, d -minn., Chris van Hollen, Dm.d., Raphael Warnock, D-D., Elizabeth Warren, D-Mass., Sheldon Whitehouse, Dr.i., and Ron Wyden, D-Ore.
Fox News Digital addressed these senators to comment.
Protection of women and girls in sports would require the title of IX Treating the gender as “recognized solely on the reproductive biology and genetics of the person at birth” and would prevent any adjustment to apply to gender identity.
The proposal of the law supported in Tuberville had more than 40 sponsors in Senate. This would also codify one of Trump’s many recent executive orders, providing politics with better longevity.
AND National output survey The Legal Action Committee of Legislative Action interested in America found that 70% of moderate voters saw “opposition to Donald Trump to transgender boys and men dealing with girls and women’s sports and transgender boys and men using girls and women’s bathrooms” as important.
Democrats who voted at the proposal of a law on the ban on trans athletes in women’s sports. (Fox News)
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In addition, 6% said that this is the most important question of all, while 44% said it was “very important”.
Meanwhile, a recent survey of the New York Times/Ipsos has revealed that the vast majority of Americans, including 67% of democrats, do not believe that tran athletes should compete in women’s sports.
Fox News’ Jackson Thompson and Julia Johnson contributed to this report.