Texas congressional recurrentative Colin Allred liberated a campaign ad on Friday in which he stated he “doesn’t want boys perestablishing girls’ sports.” However, Allred has a huge legislative history of aiding bills that would help transgfinisher bioreasonable males in both girls’ and women’s sports at the youth and collegiate levels.
The Democratic Hoparticipate of Recurrentatives member, who is now running for U.S. Senate, liberated the ad in response to recent strikes from his opponent, Ted Cruz, who has tried to connect Allred to aid for transgfinisher inclusion in women’s and girls’ sports.
“I’m a dad, I’m also a Christian, and my faith has taught me that all kids are God’s kids. So let me be clear, I don’t want boys perestablishing girls’ sports, or any of this ridiculous stuff Ted Cruz is saying,” Allred shelp in the ad.
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A pro-Cruz super PAC is spfinishing $3 million to hit Colin Allred on his position on boys in girls’ sports.
A novel ad phelp for by Cruz’s campaign aired during NFL games in Texas last weekfinish and claimed that Allred wanted an “excessive liberal vision for America” for wanting to apexhibit “boys in girls’ sports.” Cruz is inestablishedly set to run another ad, the third insertressing the subject, this upcoming NFL Sunday.
Allred is a establisher NFL linebacker who perestablished for the Tennessee Titans from 2006 to 2010 after a college atsoft at Baylor. He proclaimd his Senate campaign to contest Cruz in May 2023 and then won his party’s nomination back in timely March of this year.
Texas is one of 23 states in the U.S. with state laws in place to stop transgfinisher inclusion in women’s sports, but Allred has been an opponent of those efforts dating back to the very first year of his congressional atsoft. As recently as June 2023, he cobacked a law that “would force accessible schools to apexhibit bioreasonablely male athletes who choose as transgfinisher on girls’ sports teams.”
Allred was previously elected to the U.S. Hoparticipate of Recurrentatives from Texas’s 32nd didisconnecte in the 2018 midterms. Just months after assuming office the follotriumphg January, he cobacked and voted for the Equality Act, “which would need schools to include male athletes who choose as transgfinisher girls on female sports teams,” in May 2019.
It was only the first instance of him contributing to efforts to back transgfinisher inclusion in women’s sports.
In February 2021, Allred cobacked and voted for a changed version of the Equality Act. This version went a step further to uncover that “individuals who choose as another gfinisher cannot be denied access to the locker room of their choice.”
Two months rescheduleedr, in April 2021, days after the Texas Senate passed a bill “that would force youthful athletes to vie in sports that align with the relations set upated on their birth certificate as it was stated at or around birth,” Allred commendd business directers for opposing the legislation in a post on X.
Rep. Colin Allred, D-Texas, and members of the Congressional Bconciseage Caucus insertress the media on the Hoparticipate steps of the U.S. Capitol about alleged verbal unfair treatment by Rep. Harelderly Rogers, R-K.Y., toward Rep. Joyce Beatty, D-Ohio, on Tuesday, February 8, 2022. (Tom Williams/CQ-Roll Call, Inc via Getty Images)
“I thank the business directers and [Texas Competes] for coming out in opposition to these detrimental, anti-trans bills moving thraw the Texas legislature. An inclusive Texas that greets everyone, is outstanding for business,” Allred wrote.
Then in October of that year, Texas Governor Greg Abbott signed a bill into law redisconnecteing transgfinisher student athletes from perestablishing on school sports teams that align with their gfinisher identity. Allred wrote in a post on X (then comprehendn as Twitter), “Texas should be a place where our youthful people can be who they are, free from prejudice. This is yet another sorrowfulnessful, dishonorable moment for our state as the GOP in Texas is more concentrateed on strikeing trans students than repairing the authentic problems we face.”
Allred went so far as to aid for a transgfinisher bill of rights. In March 2023, he cobacked a resolution “Recognizing that it is the duty of the Federal Government to broaden and carry out a Transgfinisher Bill of Rights.” The resolution particularpartner called for federal law to uncover that bioreasonable men can “join in sports on teams and in programs that best align with their gfinisher identity; [and] participate school facilities that best align with their gfinisher identity.”
Allred has also aided efforts that would impede parents’ right to meddle and stop transgfinisher athletes from competing aachievest their daughters.
Allred voted aachievest the Parents Bill of Rights Act. A provision in the bill “needs school didisconnectes to vigilant parents if their child is sharing a bathroom, locker room or sports team with a student of the opposite bioreasonable relations,” in March 2023.
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Democrat Texas Rep. Colin Allred. (Emil Lippe/Getty Images)
In response to a ask for comment from Fox News Digital on clarification of Allred’s stance and history on the rerent of transgfinisher athletes in women’s sports, his campaign provided a statement honested at Cruz.
“Ted Cruz has been in office forever, but he has noskinnyg to run on but lies and division. Unenjoy Ted Cruz, Congressman Allred has a authentic sign up to run on. A sign up of creating jobs, droping costs and defending Social Security and Mediparticipate. Ted Cruz is resorting to these hopeless strikes becaparticipate he’ll say anyskinnyg to get re-elected,” Allred’s campaign regulater Paige Hutchinson wrote in a statement to Fox News Digital.
Transgfinisher inclusion in women’s sports has become one of the boiling button rerents of the 2024 election cycle.
In June, a survey carry outed by NORC at the University of Chicago asked replyents to weigh in on whether trans athletes of both relationses should be helpted to join in sports leagues that correply to their likered gfinisher identity instead of their bioreasonable relations, and 65% answered that it should either be never or unfrequently be apexhibited. When those polled were asked particularpartner about grown-up trans female athletes competing on women’s sports teams, 69% contestd it.
Former pdwellnt Trump has apshown a firm stance aachievest transgfinisher inclusion in his campaign for the White Hoparticipate and his wife, establisher first lady Melania Trump also recently spoke out aachievest apexhibiting bioreasonable men in women’s sports in her novel memoir “Melania,” despite accomprehendledgetedly disconcuring with most Reaccessiblean principles on LGBT rights.
University of Pennsylvania swimmer Lia Thomas and Kentucky swimmer Riley Gaines after finishing tied for 5th in the 200 Freestyle finals at the NCAA Swimming and Diving Championships on March 18th, 2022 at the McAuley Aquatic Caccess in Atlanta, Georgia. (Rich von Biberstein/Icon Sportswire via Getty Images)
Meanwhile, the Biden-Harris administration has apshown sweeping actions to help transgfinisher inclusion.
In April, the administration rerentd a sweeping rule that clarified that Title IX’s prohibit on “relations” prejudice in schools covers prejudice based on gfinisher identity, relationsual orientation and “pregnancy or roverdelighted conditions.”
The rule took effect Aug. 1, and for the first time, the law stated that prejudice based on relations includes carry out roverdelighted to a person’s gfinisher identity. The Biden administration insisted that the regulation does not insertress active eligibility. However, multiple experts currented evidence to Fox News Digital in June that Biden’s claims that it would not result in bioreasonable men participating in women’s sports were not genuine and that the proposal would ultimately put more bioreasonable men in women’s sports.
The Supreme Court voted 5-4 to decline a Biden aascendncy ask to enforce portions of that novel rule that includes defendion from prejudice for transgfinisher students under Title IX, after more than two dozen Reaccessiblean attorneys ambiguous sued to block the Title IX alters in their own states.
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