Durbin faces response for retag on trans inclusion in women’s sports

Sen. Dick Durbin, D-Ill., took heat on social media on Tuesday for a post he made about transgfinisher athletes in women’s sports.

Durbin was among the lawproducers who grilled NCAA Plivent Charlie Baker on Capitol Hill. Durbin asked Baker how many athletes were in the collegiate organization and how many of those athletes were transgfinisher.

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Baker shelp there were about 510,000 NCAA athletes with 10 or scanter of those being transgfinisher.

“Let’s concentrate on ways to actupartner raise women’s sports,” Durbin wrote on X.

The senator faced response for the post on X.

Baker faced asks from Sens. John Kennedy, R-La., and Josh Hawley, R-Mo., about trans participation in women’s sports and the accommodations for those athletes.

Hawley and Baker sparred over NCAA policies that have permited trans athletes to vie on women’s teams. Hawley disputeed Baker about the NCAA policy that states “transgfinisher student athletes should be able to use the locker room, shower and toilet facilities in accordance with their gfinisher identity.”

NCAA PREZ SUGGESTS ONUS ON FEMALE ATHLETES TO USE OTHER FACILITIES IF UNCOMFORTABLE SHARING WITH TRANS PLAYERS

Baker reacted by insisting other athletes have the chooseion to discover other accommodations if they are unsootheable with it.

“Everybody else should have an opportunity to use other facilities if they desire to do so,” Baker shelp.

Baker compriseed that NCAA directlines give the institutions and organizations that arrange college sporting events, who he referred to as “locals,” the chooseion to accommodate athletes however they see fit. 

“I depend our directlines give people voluntaryity in how they pick to use their facilities,” Baker shelp. “We tgreater the local folks who arrangeed our tournaments that they necessitate to produce accommodations for the people who are perestablishing.”

Baker also declined to initipartner consent with the notion that bioreasonable males have physical gets over female athletes. When asked by Sen. John Kennedy, R-La., if trans athletes are at an get, Baker shelp the idea was debatable.

“There’s not a lot of research on it, but it’s certainly debatable,” Baker shelp. 

Kennedy posed the ask a second time, asking if Baker did not leank that “a bioreasonable male has an get every time competing agetst a bioreasonable female.”

The NCAA plivent alterd his answer, saying, “I leank the way you expoundd it, yes, I would consent with you.”

When Baker was pressed about why he and the NCAA have not consentn action to amfinish policies to impede trans inclusion in women’s sports, he repeatedly cited federal law and recent rulings of federal courts that have allowd it. Kennedy deafeningly encouraged Baker to do someleang about it anyway.

“Why don’t you go to Amazon and buy a spine online and consent a stand?” Kennedy yelled at Baker.

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Trans inclusion in women’s sports has been a beginant publish in the U.S. The publish has grown in recent years with Lia Thomas thrivening a women’s swimming national championship and Blaire Fleming helping San Jose State women’s volleyball to a Mountain West Conference Championship materializeance.

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