No Democrat of the Senate voted on Monday in favor of the protection of women and girls in sport, which would prevent organic men from competing with female and girls sports.
A procedural vote took place on the Senate soil and the Republicans need at least 60 votes to break the filibusier. They received 51. Meaning. Angus King, I-Maine and Bernie Sanders, i-vt., Voted with the Democrats.
Four senators were absent – Democrats Elissa Slotkin, from Michigan, and Peter Welch, Vermont, and Republicans Shelley Capito, from Virginie -Western, and Cynthia Lummis, Wyoming.
Read below for the Democratic senators who decided to prevent the bill from moving forward.
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Senator Tammy Baldwin, D-Wis.
Senator Tammy Baldwin Wave after talking about the National Democratic Convention on August 22, 2024, in Chicago. (Images Kevin Dietsch / Getty)
Baldwin made a statement to PK Press Club Digital on Tuesday.
“In other words: it is not the place of the federal government to say to the sports leagues of the state and local through the country how to do their job,” she said. “For my part, I trust our state and local leagues to develop a thoughtful policy where parents and players can be involved in the discussion on what is best for our children without interference from the president or the congress.”
Senator Catherine Cortez Masto, D-NEV.
Senator Catherine Cortez Masto speaks during a press conference of the Democrats in the Senate in the American Capitol on February 6, 2024. (Bill Clark / CQ-Roll Call, included via Getty Images)
Cortez Masto declared in a press release that she supported equity in female sports, but traced the line with regard to the alleged “exaggerated government”.
“I support fair play and security and I do not support transgender athletes who participate in the sports of girls and women when he compromises these principles,” she said in a statement. “I believe that local schools, athlete students, coaches and parents are much better equipped to implement fair and solid policies on this issue than politicians in the Congress.
“This general legislation would allow anyone to submit girls to invasive physical examinations just because of their appearance. It is an incredible significance of the government and puts young women at increased risky risk of mistreatment and harassment – something that I spent my career to fight.”
Senator Dick Durbin, D-ill.
The Whip of the majority of the Senate, Richard Durbin, speaks after the weekly Senate lunch at the American Capitol on December 3, 2024. (Images Kevin Dietsch / Getty)
Durbin expressed scruples similar to Cortez Masto.
“Put yourself in place of these families for a moment,” said Durbin. “Imagine being the parent of a trans child and telling your child that he is not allowed to play in the same sports team as his friends at school because a politician said he could not.
“It’s so personal, it’s so important and [because of Republicans,] We will vote to give someone not specified the right to physically inspect a girl or a young woman if the other opposing team accuses them of being transgender. My God. “”
Durbin also underlined the testimony of the president of NCAA, Charlie Baker, the legislators when he said that he thought there were less than 10 transgender athletes in college athletics. The organization then changed its policy after the executive decree of President Trump “No Men in Women’s Sports”.
Senator John Fetterman, D-PA.
Senator John Fetterman wrote his reason to vote against the Bill on X. (Getty Images)
Fetterman suggested in a post on X that he had chosen to be an ally of the “small” contingent of transgender athletes.
“The small handful of trans Pennsylvania athletes in a political maelstrom deserve an ally and I am a. Depersionalized as they` `Il / them ” in a political announcement, but are only schoolchildren. Void spectacle votes or cruelty on social networks are not part of a thoughtful and worthy solution.”
Senator Ruben Gallego, D-Ariz.
Senator Ruben Gallego said his voters were focused on other questions. (Getty Images)
Gallego has minimized the question of his voters in his state.
“Listen, if you run and you have no other identity and you are not known to fight so that people have a decent life, to buy a house, to be able to bring the American dream to their families, these external problems are what will bring you down,” he told NBC News.
“I am not worried about it, because I communicate with my Arizonan compatriots every day that I fight for them to make sure they live the American dream whatever happens.”
Senator John Hickenlooper, D-COLO.
Senator John Hickenlooper speaks during an audience on Capitol Hill on March 1, 2023. (Anna Moneymaker / Getty Images)
Hickenlooper told NBC News that Senator Tommy Tuberville, R-Ala., Who presented the bill, “tried to circulate social wars on something that really does not exist”. He said Trump’s announcement on transmian sports athletes was only going to work once.
Sense. Tim Kaine and Mark Warner, D-VA.
Senator Tim Kaine speaks with journalists. (Reuters)
Kaine and Warner have published a joint statement, saying that Congress had to focus on other things.
“Currently, the Congress should focus on the transmission of bills that lower the prices of the grocery store, not those who threaten to finance public schools and the US and world-class colleges,” they said. “But instead, the Republicans are ready to eliminate the Ministry of Education, while trying to dictate how individual schools should manage their sports programs and submit children to an uncomfortable examination, an invasive question and even harassment. We will vote to vote for this bill and leave the decision of the best integration of transgender students between parents, educators and associations athletics.
Senator Angus King, I-Maine
Senator Angus King listens during an audience of the Armed Services Committee on the appointment of Pete Hegseth to be Secretary of Defense on January 14, 2025. (Jack Gruber-USA today)
King said in a press release that he understood the concerns of students, parents and administrators on the differences in equity and physicity, but in any case voted against the bill.
“However, if a Maine school decided to include a single trans student in one of their teams, the schools of the whole state would lose access to critical funding which would be detrimental to all students, a disproportionate result for the impact of a transgender athlete in a school. Although they are complex problems, considerations of equity and security are made every day, the teachers educators at the end of the levels.
“Consequently, I am ultimately not at ease to condition all the financing of federal education on a question which distinguishes such a small number of students on a national level – including here in Maine – and distance the decision -making power of local communities.
“Finally, I find it strange that many of those who support this legislation have exactly the opposite position with regard to the reproductive choices of women – that this problem should be left to the States – while the question of transgender athletes requires a federal solution that replaces local control.”
Senator Gary Peters, D-Mich.
Senator Gary Peters speaks during the National Democrat Convention in Chicago, August 20, 2024. (Reuters / Mike Segar)
Peters told NBC News that the problem did not seem to resonate with Michigan voters.
“It’s not really a problem like in Michigan,” he said. “People will realize that this is really a problem that the Republicans have tried to exploit.”
The Senate Dems faces a backlash after Bill to prevent boys from practicing the sports of girls who do not break the filibusier
Several Democratic senators did not publish a statement or explained why they voted as they did.
These legislators have included meaning. 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., Chris Coons, d-Del., Tammy Duckworth, Dril., Kirsten Gillibrand, Dn.y, Dinc 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., Ed Markey, D-Mass., Jeff Merkley, 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. Smith, d-minn., Chris Van Hollen, Dm.d., Raphael Warnock, D-Ga., Elizabeth Warren, D-Mass., Sheldon Whitehouse, Dr.i., and Ron Wyden, D-ear.
PK Press Club Digital contacted these senators to comment.
The protection of Women and Girls in Sports Act would oblige title IX to treat sex as “recognized only on the biology and reproductive genetics of a person at birth” and prohibit any adjustment so that it applies to gender identity.
The bill supported by Tuberville had more than 40 co-sponsors in the Senate. This would also codify one of Trump’s many recent decrees, offering politics better longevity.
A national exit survey conducted by the Legislative Action Committee for women concerned for women concerned revealed that 70% of moderate voters saw the question of “Donald Trump’s opposition to boys and transgender men playing sports of girls and women and transgender boys and men using bathrooms and women” as important to them.
Democrats who voted a bill to prohibit trans athletes in female sports. (PK Press Club)
In addition, 6% said it was everyone’s most important problem, while 44% said it was “very important”.
Meanwhile, a recent New York Times / Ipsos survey has revealed that the vast majority of Americans, 67% of whom are democrats, do not believe that trans athletes should be able to compete in female sports.
