Democrat House candidate says women aren't worried about transgender athletes in their sports locker rooms

As pistillate athletes and lawmakers crossed the state combat to support biologic males out of women's sports competitions and locker rooms, a Democrat moving for the House of Representatives says she and women athletes are not disquieted astir the issue. 

Sue Altman, who is moving for New Jersey's Seventh Congressional District, told the New York Post that she and others successful women's locker rooms are not disquieted astir the beingness of transgender athletes successful women's sports.

"As idiosyncratic who’s been moving to advocator for women’s rights and women’s sports, I committedness you that successful the locker rooms of women’s sports teams, we’re not ace disquieted astir this," Altman said. "We’ve been disquieted astir getting adjacent entree to gym time, bully referees, bully trainers truthful you don’t get injured, just shingle astatine scholarships, adjacent wage astatine the higher levels."

Altman advocated for allowing transgenders successful girls' sports astatine the younker level, but she suggested she would beryllium successful favour of leaving idiosyncratic committees the determination to let those athletes to compete. 

"I volition fto idiosyncratic sport[s] committees determine the highest, highest-level things, but astatine the precise bosom of it, we person to respect radical of each genders and springiness young children, particularly young radical and adolescents struggling with their sex identity, the accidental to compete," she told the Post.

"I grew up with radical who are present trans, who person transitioned from lad to miss oregon miss to boy, and those radical struggled successful adolescence."

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New Zealand's Laurel Hubbard, the archetypal transgender Olympian, tries to marque a assistance successful the women's 87kg weightlifting last astatine the 2020 Tokyo Olympics. (Wally Skalij /Los Angeles Times via Getty Images)

Altman is simply a erstwhile women's assemblage hoops subordinate who played astatine Columbia University successful the aboriginal 2000s. She ended her vocation determination arsenic the program's eighth-leading scorer successful past with 964 points. She did this contempt playing for Holy Cross her freshman year, transferring to Columbia and sitting retired her sophomore twelvemonth owed to NCAA guidelines.

Altman besides played professionally successful Europe for Killester successful the Irish Women's Super League successful Dublin and for Medical Instinct Veilchen successful Goettingen, Germany.

Almtan has said she grew up successful a household of Republicans but that her clip astatine Columbia made her much liberal. In an interrogation with Columbia's pupil newspaper successful March, she cited the Bush administration's effect to 9/11 arsenic a crushed for her switching allegiances during her clip successful college.

Now, she is moving against Rep. Tom Kean Jr., R-N.J., who has much than 20 years of acquisition successful the House of Representatives.

Altman is besides moving successful an predetermination twelvemonth that has seen aggregate lawsuits filed by women athletes and astatine slightest 24 lawsuits by authorities attorneys wide successful effect to transgender athletes successful women's sports and Title IX changes by the Biden-Harris administration, which immoderate reason alteration biologic men into women's locker rooms and connected their tract of play.

In April, the medication issued a sweeping regularisation to clarify that Title IX’s prohibition connected "sex" favoritism successful schools covers favoritism based connected sex identity, intersexual predisposition and "pregnancy oregon related conditions."

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President Biden and Vice President Harris (SAUL LOEB/AFP via Getty Images)

The rule took effect Aug. 1, and for the archetypal time, the instrumentality stated that favoritism based connected enactment includes behaviour related to a person’s gender identity. The Biden medication insisted the regularisation does not code diversion eligibility. However, aggregate experts presented evidence to Fox News Digital successful June that the connection would yet enactment much biologic men successful women's sports.

On Aug. 16, the Supreme Court voted, 5-4, to cull a Biden medication exigency petition to enforce portions of that caller rule, which includes extortion from favoritism for transgender students nether Title IX, aft much than 2 twelve Republican attorneys wide filed lawsuits against the medication to artifact its enforcement. 

Meanwhile, Brooke Slusser, a subordinate of San Jose State's women's volleyball team, joined 18 different athletes successful suing the NCAA implicit its sex individuality policies. The suit alleged that Slusser, who transferred to San Jose State, was acrophobic for her information aft realizing 1 of her caller teammates, Blaire Fleming, was transgender. Three of San Jose State's opponents person already forfeited games against the squad since quality of the suit spread. 

Former NCAA swimmer and OutKick contributor Riley Gaines has testified successful Georgia astir her acquisition competing against and sharing a locker country with transgender jock Lia Thomas, a biologic male, alongside 4 different NCAA All-American women athletes. Gaines is joined by Reka Gyorgy, Kylee Alons, Grace Countie and Kaitlynn Wheeler, each members of the Independent Council connected Women’s Sports, who filed a suit against the NCAA successful March alleging the relation knowingly violated Title IX successful allowing Thomas to compete.

The committee's enquiry volition absorption connected the 2022 NCAA Division I Women’s Swimming and Diving Championships, wherever Thomas competed for the University of Pennsylvania women’s swimming team. Gaines competed against and yet tied Thomas, who identifies arsenic a woman, successful the 200-yard championships successful 2022.

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University of Pennsylvania swimmer Lia Thomas, left, and Kentucky swimmer Riley Gaines are shown aft finishing tied for 5th successful the 200 freestyle finals astatine the NCAA Swimming and Diving Championships connected March 18, 2022. (Rich von Biberstein/Icon Sportswire via Getty Images)

Far distant from Altman's constituents successful the Northeast, 1 Republican politician has already passed an enforcement bid to guarantee schools forestall biologic males from competing successful women's sports. 

On Aug. 28, Idaho Gov. Brad Little signed an enforcement bid to enforce the Defending Women's Sports Act, which issued caller protocols for the state's nationalist schools to beforehand the exclusion of transgender athletes successful women's sports. In an exclusive interrogation with Fox News Digital connected Aug. 30, Little did not regularisation retired administering sex eligibility tests for each girls' and women's sports teams but added that "I’d person to spot truly bully grounds that that’s necessary."

But Altman says she wants to trim barriers for transgender athletes to vie arsenic women for the involvement of their intelligence health.

"If we determine arsenic a nine that making rules astir who is and who isn’t pistillate is much important than giving young children a accidental to beryllium connected teams and vie and to beryllium portion of thing bigger than themselves, particularly young radical who are much susceptible to termination and bullying, past I deliberation we’ve mislaid our mode a small bit," Altman said.

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