Senate Democrats Kill Trump-Backed Amendment to Ban Men from Women’s Sports – For the FOURTH Time
Senate Democrats once again blocked a common-sense Republican amendment that would have protected women’s and girls’ sports from biological males competing as transgender athletes.
On Saturday, the Senate voted 49-41 along strict party lines to kill the amendment to the Safeguard American Voter Eligibility (SAVE) America Act.
The measure needed 60 votes to advance and failed, marking the fourth time Democrats have shot down identical protections.
BREAKING: Senate Democrats just BLOCKED legislation to ban men in women’s sports, 49-41
The amendment would have added the Trump-backed provision blocking federal funds to schools letting males compete in women’s sports. pic.twitter.com/ej8xczEqLT
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The amendment, known as the Protection for Women and Girls in Sports Act, was sponsored by Sens. Tommy Tuberville and Marsha Blackburn. It would have barred federally funded schools and programs from allowing biological males, those identifying as transgender women or girls, to compete in female sports categories.
Republicans introduced the amendment at the demand of President Donald Trump, who has made protecting women’s sports a top priority alongside the SAVE America Act’s core goal of requiring proof of citizenship and photo ID to vote.
Speaking on the Senate floor, Tuberville blasted the repeated Democratic obstruction.
“This is the fourth time that I’ve had this bill on the floor. I’ll continue to try until I’m gone,” Tuberville said. “Every time that we’ve voted on this, I have not got one single Democrat to vote for it.”
Tuberville continued, “How about the trophies and awards that are stolen from young girls and ladies that work all their life to win a game or a sport … and they lose to somebody that’s much more physical, bigger, stronger and faster?”
Blackburn called the situation “disgusting,” pointing to cases like swimmer Lia Thomas, a biological male who switched from the men’s team at the University of Pennsylvania to the women’s squad and went on to win a national championship.
“Thank goodness President Donald Trump has tried to chase away some of the adverse actions against Title IX that were carried out during the Biden Administration,” Blackburn said. “When women would be forced to share a locker room with guys because the guy decided he was going to claim to be a female so he could compete… The guy couldn’t win in the guys’ category so they claimed to be women so they could take away that trophy, so they can take away that scholarship from young women. I think that’s disgusting.”
West Virginia Sen. Shelley Moore Capito, who played college sports, added, “This is about fairness, and it’s about preserving a level playing field for women and girls who have worked hard, trained hard, and deserve the chance to compete on equal terms. Biological women competing alongside biological men is anything but fair.”
No Democratic senator rose to speak against the amendment before the vote.
Democrats’ obstruction keeps the door open for biological males to dominate women’s sports, take scholarships, and invade locker rooms, all under the banner of “inclusion.”
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