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Mr. TUBERVILLE. Mr. President, it seems like ``Groundhog Day'' in here to me. I have been here 6 years, and this is the fourth time that I have had this bill on the floor, and I am still trying. I am going to continue to try until I am gone. I can't believe this is even an issue, but nothing, basically, has surprised me since I have been here, the things we have either voted for or voted against here in this body.
I have come to the floor, as I said, four different times to try to get the Senate to pass the Protection of Women and Girls in Sports Act. It is not very complicated. For some reason, we are making it complicated. Every time we have voted on this, I have not gotten one single Democrat to vote for it.
I think you can look back at the election this past year in 2024. One of the main issues that put a majority in here, a majority in the House, and control over 1600 Pennsylvania Avenue is because for some reason, my Democrat colleagues do not want to protect girls and women in sports. It is ludicrous.
For the life of me, I cannot understand how biological males can be given the right to take away the rights of young girls--elementary school, junior high, high school, junior college, 4-year universities, and even in pro sports. I cannot understand it.
We have women's sports, and we have men's sports, and that is the way it should be. That is the way it has been up until just a few years ago.
President Trump has changed that since he took office. He Executive- ordered that no men participate in women's sports. Here is the deal: We all know that Executive orders only last a certain amount of time. If the Democrats take control of the White House, that will change overnight. Biological men will be allowed to participate in women's sports
But surely to goodness, everybody in here has daughters or nieces or granddaughters that love sports--one of the best things this country has going for it. You are taught teamwork, dedication, work ethic, time control, organization. You get all those things out of sports.
I did it for 35 years. I have seen people change their lives because of what sports did to their lives. Sometimes they are not very focused through a school--whether it is high school, junior college, or a 4- year university--but if they participate in that and they go through the grueling practice and meetings and lifting and all the things they have to do, they learn. They learn how to control their lives. They learn how to take care of themselves. But for some reason, we don't want women and girls to have that opportunity. In this body, the Democratic Party wants biological men to be able to participate.
So what would you say to the volleyball player at San Jose University who thought that on a road trip, you double up--whether it is men's sport or women's--you double up in a hotel room before you play the next day. She did not realize that she was sharing a room and possibly even a bed with a male. She didn't know he was transgender. She did not know it. She quit school and did not get her degree because she was petrified at what she had to go through because of this body right here. It is ridiculous--absolutely ridiculous.
Female athletes suffer long injuries because of competing against bigger men. Can we not figure that out? Can we not figure that out?
How about the trophies and awards that are stolen from young girls and ladies that work all their life to win a game or a sport or win some kind of award in the sport they are in, and they put all their dedicated life into that, and they lose to somebody that is much more physical--bigger, stronger, and faster--because of us in here? Not anybody else; because of us. Because we won't vote to say: No, they can't do it. It really makes no sense whatsoever.
But do you know what? The people of this country voted. They voted their tails out a majority in the House, in the Senate, and the White House, and one reason was because of no common sense--none. And they should, and it is going to get them again next year.
If I was a leader over there, I would go: Hey, listen, we are getting our tails kicked on this. Let's go vote for this and get it over with because we are going to lose a lot of votes.
Eighty percent of the country believes that men should not play in women's sports, but, no--they are going stand up for the 20 percent-- the 20 percent crazies that have no clue of what they are doing when they are voting for men to play in women's sports.
So I appreciate President Trump's Executive order to put life back into women's sports. And we are not talking about all 18-, 19-, 20- year-olds; I am talking about 4 or 5 years old--all of women's sports.
So this is an 82-20 issue--common sense. I mean, there is not a lot of common sense up here because my colleagues on the left a couple years ago tried to push on the United States that men can have babies. Are you kidding me? Are you kidding me? What country do we live in when we have leaders of this country trying to push an idea that men can have babies?
We have lost it, and we better get control of it. I think that my colleagues on the left have really lost touch with reality. Because why? You would ask yourself why. You go home and think, why would anybody vote for that?
And I will tell you why. There is a group of people they are trying to protect that would vote for their power. They are not voting for young women. They are not voting for older women. They are voting for power so they can push this nonsense on you all over this country. And enough is enough of it. Enough is enough.
So I hope today when we vote on this bill for the fourth time that men cannot play in women's sports, that when they walk up to vote and say: No, I am against that, look at the damn camera up there and let the people see you vote against women in this country to have the same rights as men when it comes to athletics.
Please do that so we can put your picture on television. Don't vote for this guy next November because there is no possible way that you can elect somebody that believes this nonsense.
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