Ex-NFL punter applauds Senate Dems after bill to prohibit males from women's sports fails to break filibuster

Chris Kluwe, a erstwhile NFL punter who was precocious thrust into the nationalist spotlight aft helium was arrested astatine a California metropolis assembly meeting, voiced his enactment for lawmakers who blocked the Protection of Women and Girls successful Sports Act from moving guardant successful the Senate.

Republican lawmakers failed to get the 60 votes needed to interruption a filibuster. 

Not a azygous Senate Democrat voted successful favour of the bill. Two Republicans and 2 Democrats were absent from the vote.

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Ex-NFL punter Chris Kluwe speaks during a Huntington Beach City Council meeting.  (City of Huntington Beach)

Kluwe, who played for the Minnesota Vikings his full career, reacted successful a station connected BlueSky.

"I enactment and americium blessed the enactment came unneurotic to halt this," Kluwe wrote. "However, this is what they should beryllium doing connected EVERYTHING. I’ve said it earlier and I’ll support saying it - we are successful an existential situation arsenic a country. We’re either going to look arsenic Americans, oregon arsenic thing else."

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Minnesota Vikings punter Chris Kluwe walks disconnected the tract aft a crippled against the Houston Texans astatine Reliant Stadium. (Thomas Campbell/USA Today Sports)

The Protection of Women and Girls successful Sports Act would require 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 measure was introduced by Sen. Tommy Tuberville, R-Ala., and has 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. 

Former Minnesota Vikings NFL subordinate Chris Kluwe joins a tiny radical of protesters extracurricular the Pelican Hill Country Club, wherever Vice President Mike Pence was scheduled to be a luncheon fundraiser successful Newport Beach, Calif., Oct. 9, 2017. (Robyn Beck/AFP via Getty Images)

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President Donald Trump issued an enforcement bid past period to prohibit biologic males from competing successful women's and girls sports. The bid would withhold national backing from states that proceed to let transgender inclusion successful women's and girls sports.

Fox News’ Julia Johnson contributed to this report.

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