Bill to prevent males from women's sports receives no support from Senate Dems: Who were they?

No Senate Democrat connected Monday voted successful favour of the Protection of Women and Girls successful Sports Act, which would support biological males from competing successful women’s and girls’ sports.

A procedural ballot took spot connected the Senate level and Republicans needed astatine slightest 60 votes to interruption the filibuster. They received 51. Sens. Angus King, I-Maine, and Bernie Sanders, I-Vt., voted with Democrats. 

Four senators were absent – Democrats Elissa Slotkin, of Michigan, and Peter Welch, of Vermont, and Republicans Shelley Capito, of West Virginia, and Cynthia Lummis, of Wyoming.

Read beneath for the Democratic senators who decided to support the measure from advancing.

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Sen. Tammy Baldwin, D-Wis.

Sen. Tammy Baldwin waves aft speaking astatine the Democratic National Convention connected Aug. 22, 2024, successful Chicago. (Kevin Dietsch/Getty Images)

Baldwin gave a connection to Fox News Digital connected Tuesday.

"Simply put: it’s not the national government’s spot to archer authorities and section sports leagues crossed the state however to bash their jobs," she said. "I for 1 spot our authorities and section leagues to trade thoughtful argumentation wherever parents and players tin beryllium progressive successful the treatment astir what is champion for our children without interference from the President oregon Congress."

Sen. Catherine Cortez Masto, D-Nev.

Sen. Catherine Cortez Masto speaks during a Senate Democrats' property league successful the U.S. Capitol connected Feb. 6, 2024. (Bill Clark/CQ-Roll Call, Inc via Getty Images)

Cortez Masto said successful a connection she supported fairness successful women’s sports but drew the enactment erstwhile it came to alleged "government overreach."

"I enactment just play and information and bash not enactment transgender athletes competing successful girls’ and women’s sports erstwhile it compromises those principles," she said successful a statement. "I judge section schools, pupil athletes, coaches, and parents are overmuch amended equipped to instrumentality fair, beardown policies connected this contented than politicians successful Congress.

"This broad authorities would let anyone to taxable girls to invasive carnal exams conscionable due to the fact that of the mode they look. That is unthinkable authorities overreach and is putting young women astatine accrued hazard for maltreatment and harassment – thing I’ve spent my vocation warring against."

Sen. Dick Durbin, D-Ill.

Senate Majority Whip Richard Durbin speaks pursuing the play Senate luncheon astatine the U.S. Capitol connected Dec. 3, 2024. (Kevin Dietsch/Getty Images)

Durbin expressed akin qualms arsenic Cortez Masto.

"Put yourself successful the shoes of these families for conscionable a moment," Durbin said. "Imagine being the genitor of a trans kid and telling your kid they are not allowed to play connected the aforesaid sports squad arsenic their friends astatine schoolhouse due to the fact that a person said they couldn’t.

"It’s that personal, it’s that important, and [because of Republicans,] we’re going to ballot to springiness idiosyncratic unspecified the close to physically inspect a miss oregon a young pistillate if the different opposing squad accuses them of being transgender. My goodness."

Durbin besides pointed to NCAA president Charlie Baker's grounds to lawmakers erstwhile helium said helium believed determination were less than 10 transgender athletes successful collegiate athletics. The enactment aboriginal changed its argumentation aft President Trump's "No Men successful Women's Sports" enforcement order.

Sen. John Fetterman, D-Pa.

Sen. John Fetterman wrote his crushed to ballot against the measure connected X. (Getty Images)

Fetterman suggested successful a station connected X that helium chose to beryllium an state to the "small" contingent of transgender athletes.

"The tiny fistful of trans athletes successful PA successful a governmental maelstrom merit an state and I americium one. Depersonalized arsenic ‘they/them’ successful a governmental ad, but are conscionable schoolchildren. Empty amusement votes oregon cruelty connected societal media aren’t portion of a thoughtful, dignified solution."

Sen. Ruben Gallego, D-Ariz.

Sen. Ruben Gallego said his constituents were focused connected different issues. (Getty Images)

Gallego downplayed the contented for his constituents successful his state.

"Look, if you’re moving and you don’t person immoderate different individuality and you’re not known for warring for radical to person a decent living, to bargain a home, to beryllium capable to bring the American imagination to their families, these extracurricular fringe issues are what is going to bring you down," helium told NBC News. 

"I’m not disquieted astir that, due to the fact that I pass with my chap Arizonans each time that I’m warring for them to marque definite that they get to unrecorded the American imagination nary substance what."

Sen. John Hickenlooper, D-Colo.

Sen. John Hickenlooper speaks astatine a proceeding connected Capitol Hill connected March 1, 2023. (Anna Moneymaker/Getty Images)

Hickenlooper told NBC News that Sen. Tommy Tuberville, R-Ala., who introduced the bill, was "trying to churn the societal wars astir thing that truly doesn’t exist." He said Trump’s advertisement connected trans athletes successful women’s sports was lone going to enactment once.

Sens. Tim Kaine and Mark Warner, D-Va.

Sen. Tim Kaine speaks with reporters. (Reuters)

Kaine and Warner released a associated statement, saying Congress needed to absorption connected different things.

"Right now, Congress should beryllium focused connected passing bills that little market prices, not ones that endanger to defund nationalist schools and gut world-class American colleges and universities," they said. "But instead, Republicans are poised to destruct the Department of Education, portion astatine the aforesaid clip trying to dictate however idiosyncratic schools should tally their sports programs and subjecting children to uncomfortable scrutiny, invasive questioning, and adjacent harassment. We volition beryllium voting to forestall this measure from moving guardant and to permission the determination of however to champion integrate transgender students into sports successful the hands of parents, educators and authorities diversion associations – not the national government."

Sen. Angus King, I-Maine

Sen. Angus King listens during an Armed Services Committee proceeding connected the information of Pete Hegseth to beryllium caput of defence connected Jan. 14, 2025. (Jack Gruber-USA Today)

King said successful a connection helium understood concerns from students, parents and administrators astir fairness and physicality differences but voted against the measure anyway.

"However, if 1 schoolhouse successful Maine decided to see a azygous trans pupil connected 1 of their teams, schools crossed the full authorities would suffer entree to captious backing which would beryllium detrimental to each students, a effect disproportionate to the interaction of 1 transgender jock astatine 1 school. While these are analyzable issues, considerations of fairness and information successful sports are made each time by parents, educators, and schoolhouse administrators astatine the section level. We should support it that mode and let section communities to determine what’s champion for their districts and their students, and fto states abide by the volition of their citizens. In different words, I spot this arsenic a state’s rights contented which should not necessitate a one-size-fits-all national solution. Simply put, it is highly apt this authorities would wounded Maine and Maine students.

"Therefore, I americium yet not comfy conditioning each national acquisition backing connected an contented that singles retired specified a tiny fig of students nationwide – including present successful Maine – and takes the decision-making powerfulness distant from section communities.

"Finally, I find it unusual that galore of those supporting this authorities person precisely the other presumption erstwhile it comes to women’s reproductive choices – that that contented should beryllium near to the states – portion the question of transgender athletes requires a national solution which overrides section control."

Sen. Gary Peters, D-Mich.

Sen. Gary Peters speaks during the Democratic National Convention successful Chicago, Aug. 20, 2024. (Reuters/Mike Segar)

Peters told NBC News the contented didn’t look to resonate with constituents successful Michigan.

"This is not truly an contented similar successful Michigan," helium said. "People are going to recognize that it’s truly been an contented that Republicans person been trying to exploit."

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Several Democratic senators didn’t merchandise a connection oregon accidental wherefore they voted the mode they did. 

Those lawmakers included Sens. Angela Alsobrooks, D-Md., Michael Bennet, D-Colo., Richard Blumenthal, D-Conn., Lisa Blunt Rochester, D-Del., Cory Booker, D-N.J., Maria Cantwell, D-Wash., Chris Coons, D-Del., Tammy Duckworth, D-Ill., Kirsten Gillibrand, D-N.Y., Maggie Hassan, D-N.H., Martin Heinrich, D-N.M., Mazie Hirono, D-Hawaii, Mark Kelly, D-Ariz., Andy Kim, D-N.J., Sen. Amy Klobuchar, D-Minn., Ben Ray Luján, D-N.M., Ed Markey, D-Mass., Jeff Merkley, D-Ore., Chris Murphy, D-Conn., Patty Murray, D-Wash., Jon Ossoff, D-Ga., Alex Padilla, D-Calif., Jack Reed, D-R.I., Jacky Rosen, D-Nev., Bernie Sanders, I-Vt., Brian Schatz, D-Hawaii, Adam Schiff, D-Calif., Chuck Schumer, D-N.Y., Jeanne Shaheen, D-N.H., Tina Smith, D-Minn., Chris Van Hollen, D-M.d., Raphael Warnock, D-Ga., Elizabeth Warren, D-Mass., Sheldon Whitehouse, D-R.I., and Ron Wyden, D-Ore.

Fox News Digital reached retired to those senators for comment.

The Protection of Women and Girls successful Sports Act would necessitate Title IX to dainty sex arsenic "recognized based solely connected a person’s reproductive biology and genetics astatine birth" and would disallow immoderate accommodation for it to use to sex identity.

The Tuberville-backed measure had much than 40 co-sponsors successful the Senate. It would besides codify 1 of Trump's galore caller enforcement orders, giving the argumentation amended longevity.

A national exit poll conducted by the Concerned Women for America legislative enactment committee recovered that 70% of mean voters saw the contented of "Donald Trump’s absorption to transgender boys and men playing girls' and women’s sports and of transgender boys and men utilizing girls' and women’s bathrooms" arsenic important to them.

Democrats who voted down a measure to prohibition trans athletes successful women's sports. (Fox News)

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Additionally, 6% said it was the astir important contented of all, portion 44% said it was "very important."

Meanwhile, a caller New York Times/Ipsos canvass recovered that the immense bulk of Americans, including 67% of Democrats, don't judge trans athletes should beryllium capable to vie successful women's sports. 

Fox News’ Jackson Thompson and Julia Johnson contributed to this report.