Sen Blackburn expects more Democrats to vote for bills protecting women and girls athletes from transgenders

EXCLUSIVE: As the Protection of Women and Girls successful Sports Act heads to the Senate aft passing successful the House of Representatives, Sen. Marsha Blackburn, R-Tenn, believes it volition proceed to get bipartisan enactment there, conscionable arsenic it did successful the House. 

Blackburn told Fox News Digital successful an exclusive interrogation that she has spoken to aggregate Democrats crossed the aisle who are successful enactment of restricting trans inclusion successful women's sports. 

"Many of my friends who are Democrats volition archer you that they deliberation Title IX is simply a happening and to person biologic males competing against women is inappropriate, and they privation opportunities for their daughters oregon nieces oregon granddaughters, and it's frustrating to them erstwhile they perceive oregon astir oregon witnesser a transgender antheral playing successful a women's oregon girls' league" Blackburn said. 

Sen. Marsha Blackburn speaks during the archetypal time of the 2024 Republican National Convention astatine the Fiserv Forum successful Milwaukee connected July 15, 2024. (Getty Images)

When the measure passed done the House past Tuesday, Reps. Henry Cuellar, D-Texas, and Vicente Gonzales, D-Texas, were the lone 2 Democrats to ballot successful favour of it. Blackburn expects and hopes that determination volition beryllium aggregate Democratic senators who ballot successful favour of the measure erstwhile it hits the Senate floor. 

"I would expect determination would be, I would anticipation determination would be," she said. 

However, astir Democrats person remained firmly opposed to the bill. Many person gone truthful acold successful their absorption to marque unsubstantiated claims that the instrumentality would empower kid predators to springiness genital examinations to young girls. 

Many of the 206 Democratic location representatives, including Minority Rep. Leader Hakeem Jeffries, D-N.Y., and Rep Alexandria Ocasio-Cortez, D-N.Y., presented that statement contempt nary connection successful the measure that indicates genital examinations would beryllium used. 

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Republicans insisted that impervious of commencement enactment tin beryllium determined simply by a commencement certificate. The Democrats' effort to necktie the measure to kid predator empowerment has driven galore loyal voters distant from the party, Fox News Digital previously reported.

Blackburn says she has "no idea" what those Democrats who argued it would effect successful kid predator empowerment are thinking.

"I find it precise hard to judge that protecting girls successful sports would person specified an adverse effect," Blackburn said. "Looking astatine the contented of the measure is the champion mode to reason against it and cognize that a immense bulk of Americans enactment protecting girls successful girls' sports." 

A caller New York Times/Ipsos survey recovered the immense bulk of Americans, including a bulk of Democrats, bash not deliberation transgender athletes should beryllium permitted to vie successful women's sports. 

Of the 2,128 radical who participated, 79% said biologic males who place arsenic women should not beryllium allowed to enactment successful women's sports. Of the 1,025 radical who identified arsenic Democrats oregon leaning Democrat, 67% said transgender athletes should not beryllium allowed to vie with women.

Controversies implicit trans athletes competing against women became a cardinal predetermination contented successful 2024, arsenic President Donald Trump and Republicans down ballot each vowed to instrumentality enactment to forestall it. 

The GOP has indicated it volition marque bully connected its committedness precise early, arsenic the Protection of Women and Girls successful Sports Act was the precise archetypal measure introduced to the 119th Congress. Blackburn plans to advocator powerfully for the measure erstwhile it reaches the Senate, wherever the Republican bulk and immoderate Democrats are expected to walk it connected to the White House for Trump to motion it into law. 

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However, Blackburn is not stopping there. She is besides introducing 3 different proposals to tackle the contented connected some a legislative and taste level. 

The Tennessee Senator has introduced a resolution calling connected the National Collegiate Athletic Association (NCAA) to revoke its transgender student-athlete eligibility policy, alongside Rep. Greg Steube, R-Fla. 

NCAA President Charlie Baker faced questions and disapproval from Republican lawmakers for these policies during a legislature proceeding connected Dec. 17. Baker repeatedly cited national instrumentality and caller rulings of national courts that person enabled it. Blackburn and Steube's solution would unit Baker and the NCAA to travel a caller precedent instead. 

Blackburn is besides introducing a measure to measure and forestall unit against women successful athletics. The Fair Play for Girls Act, which, successful summation to keeping women's sports for females, would "require the U.S. Attorney General to taxable an investigation of unit against women successful athletics to Congress." 

"We person talked with antithetic women who person had adverse impacts," Blackburn said. "This would necessitate the lawyer wide to bash an investigation and look astatine what is happening successful the satellite of sports with women and to women and past looking astatine wherever determination are impediments to just contention for the girls, wherever determination are occurrences of girls losing opportunities due to the fact that a miss has joined their squad oregon is playing successful their league, and past besides to look astatine harassment against women and girls successful athletics." 

Blackburn is adjacent looking to person a conscious extortion of women and girls successful sports ingrained into American civilization with a solution declaring Oct. 10 arsenic "American Girls successful Sports Day," which Senate Democrats blocked past Congress.

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The date, Oct. 10, which translates to XX successful Roman numerals, is meant to notation the XX chromosomes that find pistillate sex astatine birth. 

"It would conscionable beryllium teams and schools celebrating their teams and treating it arsenic a clip for schools to springiness the opportunities to coaches to girls who person excelled successful antithetic sports, I deliberation it would beryllium a root of encouragement to much young girls to enactment successful sports," Blackburn said. 

Blackburn's legislative proposals person been endorsed by Riley Gaines, Jennifer Sey, Caitlyn Jenner, Sage Steele, Concerned Women for America Legislative Action Committee, Parents Defending Education Action and Independent Women’s Forum.

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