Senate Majority Chief John Thune (R-S.D.) on Tuesday took the mandatory procedural steps to put Sen. Tommy Tuberville’s (R-Ala.) invoice blocking transgender athletes from ladies’s sports activities on the Senate calendar.
The step units up a vote on Tuberville’s invoice within the weeks forward.
The laws, dubbed the Safety of Ladies and Ladies in Sports activities Act, would maintain underneath Title IX protections for feminine athletes that gender is “recognized based solely on a person’s reproductive biology and genetics at birth.”
It could ban recipients of federal funding from working, sponsoring or facilitating athletic applications that allow a transgender feminine athlete to take part in a ladies’s sporting occasion.
Thune requested that the invoice be positioned on the calendar underneath Rule 14 however didn’t say when the Senate would vote on the laws.
Tuberville mentioned in a press release that the invoice would fulfill President-elect Trump’s promise to maintain transgender athletes out of girls’s sports activities.
“President Trump ran on the issue of saving women’s sports and won in a landslide,” Tuberville mentioned. “Seventy percent of Americans agree — men don’t belong in women’s sports or locker rooms.”
It’s co-sponsored by a large cross part of the Senate GOP convention.
