Hakeem Jeffries says bill to ban trans athletes will ‘unleash predators on girls’, but offers no explanation for how

Leader of the minority in the House of Representatives Hakeem JeffriesDN.Y., sent a post to Bluesky criticizing the proposed Women and Girls in Sports Protection Act on Tuesday, making baseless claims that the bill would “unleash horrific child predators on girls and young women.”

“The Republican Child Predator Empowerment Act does not promote fairness and safety in sports. It will unleash horrific child predators on girls and young women across America. Unacceptable,” Jeffries wrote.

Jeffries’ office did not offer a substantive explanation of how the bill would do that when Fox News Digital asked for comment.

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“The post speaks for itself,” a spokesperson from Jeffries’ office told Fox News Digital when asked for comment.

The proposed Protecting Women and Girls in Sports Act was reintroduced to the Senate by Sen. Tommy Tuberville, R-Ala., and Rep. Greg Steube, R-Fla., in the House, where it will be voted on Tuesday.

This bill generally seeks to prohibit school sports programs from allowing individuals whose biological sex was male at birth to participate in programs that are intended for women or girls.

Specifically, the law provides that it is a violation of Title IX of the Education Amendments of 1972 for federally funded educational programs or activities to conduct, sponsor, or facilitate athletic programs or activities that allow male individuals to participate in programs or activities that are intended for women or girls.

According to the account, gender is based on an individual’s reproductive biology and genetics at birth.

The bill is only one page long and clarifies that it will not be considered a violation if “men train or practice with an athletic program or activity that is intended for women or girls as long as no woman is denied a spot on a team or sport’s roster, the opportunity to participate in training or competition, scholarship, enrollment in an educational institution or any other benefit that accompanies participation in a sports program or activity.”

Currently, 25 states already have their own similar statewide laws that prevent trans athletes from competing against girls and women.

Jeffries is not the only prominent Democrat to call the Women and Girls in Sports Protection Act the Child Predator Empowerment Act.

Tail. Rep. Pete Aguilar, D-Calif., spoke against the bill during a news conference Tuesday. Aguilar suggested that the fact that the bill does not set an age limit for girls’ sports could “lead to inspections and concerns by individuals.”

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“What’s most offensive about the legislation is that it doesn’t differentiate between sports for girls at what age. It doesn’t differentiate whether you want an Olympic athlete, an NCAA player, a high school athlete regulated by your state, or you want to just play soccer as a 4-year-old or a 5-year-old street,” Aguilar said.

“That could potentially lead to inspections and individual concerns. And how you go about that is something that the House Democratic Caucus is concerned about. And that’s why, you know, we felt this was an act of the Republican Party to empower child predators.”

Jeffries and Aguilar previously sponsored a piece of legislation that would allow trans athletes to compete in women’s and women’s sports – the Equality Act.

The bill would “amend federal education laws to ensure that students are protected from discrimination based on gender, including gender identity and sexual characteristics, and to guarantee the right of students to participate in sports on teams and in programs that best align with their gender identity.”

However, the Democrats’ attempt to allow trans inclusion in women’s sports became a party-wide vulnerability in the recent election cycle.

AND national exit poll conducted by the CWA Legislative Action Committee found that 70% of moderate voters see 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 women’s and women’s bathrooms” as important to them. .

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

In June poll conducted NORC at the University of Chicago asked respondents to assess whether transgender athletes of both sexes should be allowed to participate in sports leagues that match their preferred gender identity instead of their biological sex.

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Sixty-five percent answered that it should either never or rarely be allowed. When respondents were specifically asked about adult transgender athletes competing on women’s sports teams, 69% opposed it.

Several Democrats have publicly withdrawn their support for trans inclusion, including Rep. Seth Moulton, D-Mass., Rep. Colin Allred, D-Texas, and Rep. Tom Suozzi, D-N.Y.

Biden’s Department of Education was even forced to withdraw a proposed rule in December that would have barred states from banning trans inclusion.

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