Texas Dem Allred says he opposes 'boys in girls' sports' despite past of allowing it, fighting parental rights

Texas legislature typical Colin Allred released a run advertisement connected Friday successful which helium stated helium "doesn't privation boys playing girls' sports." However, Allred has a immense legislative past of supporting bills that would alteration transgender biologic males successful some girls' and women's sports astatine the younker and collegiate levels. 

The Democratic House of Representatives member, who is present moving for U.S. Senate, released the advertisement successful effect to caller attacks from his opponent, Ted Cruz, who has tried to nexus Allred to enactment for transgender inclusion successful women's and girls' sports. 

"I'm a dad, I'm besides a Christian, and my religion has taught maine that each kids are God's kids. So fto maine beryllium clear, I don't privation boys playing girls' sports, oregon immoderate of this ridiculous worldly Ted Cruz is saying," Allred said successful the ad. 

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A pro-Cruz ace PAC is spending $3 cardinal to deed Colin Allred connected his presumption connected boys successful girls' sports.

A caller advertisement paid for by Cruz’s run aired during NFL games successful Texas past play and claimed that Allred wanted an "extreme wide imaginativeness for America" for wanting to let "boys successful girls’ sports." Cruz is reportedly acceptable to tally different ad, the 3rd addressing the subject, this upcoming NFL Sunday. 

Allred is simply a erstwhile NFL linebacker who played for the Tennessee Titans from 2006 to 2010 aft a assemblage vocation astatine Baylor. He announced his Senate run to situation Cruz successful May 2023 and past won his party's information backmost successful aboriginal March of this year. 

Texas is 1 of 23 states successful the U.S. with authorities laws successful spot to forestall transgender inclusion successful women's sports, but Allred has been an hostile of those efforts dating backmost to the precise archetypal twelvemonth of his legislature career. As precocious arsenic June 2023, he cosponsored a instrumentality that "would force nationalist schools to let biologically antheral athletes who place arsenic transgender connected girls’ sports teams."

Allred was antecedently elected to the U.S. House of Representatives from Texas's 32nd territory successful the 2018 midterms. Just months aft assuming bureau the pursuing January, helium cosponsored and voted for the Equality Act, "which would require schools to see antheral athletes who place arsenic transgender girls connected pistillate sports teams," successful May 2019. 

It was lone the archetypal lawsuit of him contributing to efforts to beforehand transgender inclusion successful women's sports. 

In February 2021, Allred cosponsored and voted for a revised mentation of the Equality Act. This mentation went a measurement further to guarantee that "individuals who place arsenic different gender cannot beryllium denied entree to the locker country of their choice."

Two months later, successful April 2021, days aft the Texas Senate passed a measure "that would unit young athletes to compete successful sports that align with the enactment designated connected their commencement certificate arsenic it was stated astatine oregon astir birth," Allred praised business leaders for opposing the authorities successful a station connected X. 

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Rep. Colin Allred, D-Texas, and members of the Congressional Black Caucus code the media connected the House steps of the U.S. Capitol astir alleged verbal maltreatment by Rep. Harold Rogers, R-K.Y., toward Rep. Joyce Beatty, D-Ohio, connected Tuesday, February 8, 2022. (Tom Williams/CQ-Roll Call, Inc via Getty Images)

"I convey the concern leaders and [Texas Competes] for coming retired successful absorption to these harmful, anti-trans bills moving done the Texas legislature. An inclusive Texas that welcomes everyone, is bully for business," Allred wrote. 

Then successful October of that year, Texas Governor Greg Abbott signed a measure into instrumentality restricting transgender pupil athletes from playing connected schoolhouse sports teams that align with their sex identity. Allred wrote successful a station connected X (then known arsenic Twitter), "Texas should beryllium a spot wherever our young radical tin beryllium who they are, escaped from discrimination. This is yet different dark, shameful infinitesimal for our authorities arsenic the GOP successful Texas is much focused connected attacking trans students than fixing the existent problems we face."

Allred went truthful acold arsenic to advocator for a transgender measure of rights. In March 2023, he cosponsored a solution "Recognizing that it is the work of the Federal Government to make and instrumentality a Transgender Bill of Rights." The resolution specifically called for national instrumentality to guarantee that biologic men tin "participate successful sports connected teams and successful programs that champion align with their sex identity; [and] usage schoolhouse facilities that champion align with their sex identity."

Allred has besides supported efforts that would impede parents' close to intervene and forestall transgender athletes from competing against their daughters. 

Allred voted against the Parents Bill of Rights Act. A proviso successful the measure "requires schoolhouse districts to alert parents if their kid is sharing a bathroom, locker country oregon sports squad with a pupil of the other biologic sex," successful March 2023. 

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Democrat Texas Rep. Colin Allred. (Emil Lippe/Getty Images)

In effect to a petition for remark from Fox News Digital connected clarification of Allred's stance and past connected the contented of transgender athletes successful women's sports, his run provided a connection directed astatine Cruz. 

"Ted Cruz has been successful bureau forever, but helium has thing to tally connected but lies and division. Unlike Ted Cruz, Congressman Allred has a existent grounds to tally on. A grounds of creating jobs, lowering costs and protecting Social Security and Medicare. Ted Cruz is resorting to these hopeless attacks due to the fact that he’ll accidental thing to get re-elected," Allred's run manager Paige Hutchinson wrote successful a connection to Fox News Digital. 

Transgender inclusion successful women's sports has go 1 of the blistery fastener issues of the 2024 predetermination cycle. 

In June, a survey conducted by NORC astatine the University of Chicago asked respondents to measurement successful connected whether trans athletes of some sexes should beryllium permitted to enactment successful sports leagues that correspond to their preferred sex individuality alternatively of their biologic sex, and 65% answered that it should either beryllium ne'er oregon seldom beryllium allowed. When those polled were asked specifically astir big trans pistillate athletes competing connected women’s sports teams, 69% opposed it.

Former president Trump has taken a steadfast stance against transgender inclusion successful his run for the White House and his wife, erstwhile archetypal woman Melania Trump besides precocious spoke retired against allowing biologic men successful women's sports successful her caller memoir "Melania," contempt admittedly disagreeing with astir Republican principles connected LGBT rights. 

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Meanwhile, the Biden-Harris medication has taken sweeping actions to alteration transgender inclusion. 

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

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 that the regularisation does not code diversion eligibility. However, aggregate experts presented evidence to Fox News Digital successful June that Biden's claims that it would not effect successful biologic men participating successful women's sports were not existent and that the connection would yet enactment much biologic men successful women's sports.

The Supreme Court voted 5-4 to cull a Biden exigency petition to enforce portions of that caller regularisation that includes extortion from favoritism for transgender students nether Title IX, aft much than 2 twelve Republican attorneys wide sued to artifact the Title IX changes successful their ain states.

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