Sen. Tommy Tuberville Says 'Woke Globalists' Are ‘Pushing Kids’ To Become Transgender Athletes In Women’s Sports

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Sen. Tommy Tuberville (R-Ala.) is taking purpose astatine the “woke globalists” who helium claims are “pushing kids” to go transgender athletes successful women’s sports.

“We person full men’s teams crossed this state present that are turning trans — women’s teams — they’re turning trans,” Tuberville, 70, told impermanent big Jackie DeAngelis portion appearing connected Sunday’s occurrence of Fox News’ “Sunday Morning Futures.”

He continued, “That’s going to beryllium a concern wherever it’s going to prime up velocity due to the fact that these woke globalists are pushing these kids to say, ‘if you can’t vie successful men’s sports, let’s conscionable modulation and accidental you’re a pistillate and enactment successful women’s sports.’”

Tuberville declared the concern “dead wrong,” adding, “We gotta basal up against it, but the Democrats are each in.”

Tuberville’s comments came aft the Republican senator’s measurement to sphere Title IX protections for pistillate athletes by restricting transgender students from playing connected women’s sports teams failed to garner the votes it needed to interruption the filibuster earlier this month.

Republicans needed 60 votes to walk the bill, but it lone received 51, with nary Democrats backing the bill.

The Protection of Women and Girls successful Sports Act introduced by Tuberville would person helped prop up President Donald Trump’s enforcement order that helium signed disconnected connected successful February, which seeks to extremity transgender pupil information successful women’s and girls’ sports.

The Trump administration, who focused connected erasing LGBTQ freedoms arsenic 1 of its main run issues, showed enactment for the inaugural up of the vote.

“This measure would expressly admit what is already national instrumentality — that it is an amerciable enactment of favoritism for a antheral to enactment successful a federally funded diversion programme oregon enactment designated for women oregon girls,” the medication said successful a statement.

Watch Tuberville’s quality connected “Sunday Morning Futures” below.