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Mr. THUNE. Mr. President, we have been debating the SAVE America Act for 7 days now, and what has been made clear in this debate is how out of touch Democrats are with most Americans.

Polls show that the commonsense policies in the SAVE America Act have support from the American people, but Democrats have repeatedly demonstrated they don't share the American people's interest in securing our elections.

And despite Americans' concerns, Democrats continue to embrace transgender ideology that allows men to compete in women's sports and children--children--to undergo irreversible, life-altering gender transition procedures.

At the start of this debate, the Democratic leader had the audacity to say that the SAVE America Act is a ``radical bill.'' ``Radical''-- that is what he said.

Well, what is radical, I would say, about ensuring that only American citizens are voting in American elections? What is radical about asking voters for a photo ID?

And I don't know what world Democrats are living in, where keeping biological men out of women's sports is a radical proposition.

What is radical is men lining up alongside women at the starting line and winning medals and trophies meant for women. What is radical is telling female athletes that they have to share a locker room with a biological male. That is radical.

Now, perhaps what is most radical about Democrats' position is that they seem to have no problem with gender transition procedures for minors. Democrats are more than happy to let transgender ideology reign, even when there is little to no evidence to support gender transition procedures for minors and increasing amounts of scientific evidence about the harms of these procedures for children.

But Democrats ignore the science. They ignore the fact that multiple European nations that have looked at the science have reined in gender transition procedures for minors.

They ignore the stories of Americans who underwent irreversible procedures as minors and have long lived to regret it.

So the SAVE America Act is not radical--radically common sense, maybe--so common sense, in fact, that only congressional Democrats could oppose it.

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