well the NCAA women's basketball Final Four kicks off tonight amid the Fanfare conservative lawmakers fear that plans from the bid Administration could women's sports Capitol Hill correspondent Eric Rosales has the latest Eric good evening Tracy the issue here is biological Men playing in women's sports and the stakes are high Title 9 became law more than 50 years ago and equalize a playing field for women including millions in scholarships and better facilities senator Tommy tuberville a former
college football coach tells me those gains are now in Jeopardy a lot of the same people that were activists for Title 9 are against it you know because they want boys and and men to play against women it it you can't make it up what what we're talking about now they're going to have boxing men boxing against women in the Olympics Senator tuberville recently held a forum with parents athletes and coaches to hear their firsthand accounts the mother of a female swimmer said her daughter's Mental
Health suff by having a biological male join the team my daughter shared with me that she would be so upset and so nervous that she would become so physically ill so anxious that she would throw up so violently that that would come out her mouth and her nose and hit the back of the bathroom wall she would just fall to the floor I'm a good person I'm a good person and a former University of Pennsylvania swimmer recalled she and her teammates were forced to undress in the same locker room as their
transgender teammate Leah Thomas and when we tried to to voice our concerns to the athletic department we were told Leah swimming on our team and being in our locker room was a non-negotiable and we were offered Psychological Services as an attempt to re-educate us to become comfortable with the idea of undressing in front of a man but during a recent hearing congresswoman summer Lee accused Republicans of not being inclusive and spreading transphobia you all are working so hard at excluding an
d demonizing a bunch of kids I think it's important that we raise the voices of transgender athletes their families and teammates some lawmakers say transgender athletes should compete amongst themselves and we don't want to deny trans people the right to compete compete in your own category late last month the Senate voted down Senator tuberville's Bill that would have protected female athletes all 51 Democrats voted to block it from proceeding the Biden Administration says it will likely try t
o implement new rules about transgender athletes after the 2024 election at the capital Eric Rosales EWTN news [Music] nightly
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