Sen. Tommy Tuberville Says 'Woke Globalists' Are ‘Pushing Kids’ To Become Transgender Athletes In Women’s Sports
Jazmin Tolliver
Sun, April 6, 2025 at 9:26 PM UTC
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Sen. Tommy Tuberville (R-Ala.) is taking aim at the “woke globalists” who he claims are “pushing kids” to become transgender athletes in women’s sports.
“We have entire men’s teams across this country now that are turning trans — women’s teams — they’re turning trans,” Tuberville, 70, told guest host Jackie DeAngelis while appearing on Sunday’s episode of Fox News’ “Sunday Morning Futures.”
He continued, “That’s going to be a situation where it’s going to pick up speed because these woke globalists are pushing these kids to say, ‘if you can’t compete in men’s sports, let’s just transition and say you’re a woman and participate in women’s sports.’”
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Tuberville declared the situation “dead wrong,” adding, “We gotta stand up against it, but the Democrats are all in.”
Tuberville’s comments came after the Republican senator’s measure to preserve Title IX protections for female athletes by restricting transgender students from playing on women’s sports teams failed to garner the votes it needed to break the filibuster earlier this month.
Republicans needed 60 votes to pass the bill, but it only received 51, with no Democrats backing the bill.
The Protection of Women and Girls in Sports Act introduced by Tuberville would have helped prop up President Donald Trump’s executive order that he signed off on in February, which seeks to end transgender student participation in women’s and girls’ sports.
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The Trump administration, who focused on erasing LGBTQ freedoms as one of its main campaign issues, showed support for the initiative ahead of the vote.
“This bill would expressly recognize what is already federal law — that it is an illegal act of discrimination for a man to participate in a federally funded athletic program or activity designated for women or girls,” the administration said in a statement.
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