meaningful issues...btw, a couple of GOP Senators (women) abstained from voting.
Here is an excerpt from the attached article regarding Tuberville's Bill...
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“Sen. Tuberville is trying to churn the social wars about something that really doesn’t exist,” Sen. John Hickenlooper, D-Colo., said after he voted to block the bill. Hickenlooper has announced he will run for re-election in 2026 and, despite his vote, said he does not believe transgender women should be able to compete in women’s sports if the other women object.
“I saw the ads,” Hickenlooper said of the election in 2024, when Trump highlighted the issue. “I think that’s the kind of ad that works once. I don’t think it’ll work again. It’s an infinitesimally small group of people that are really trying to find their ways.”
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And FYI...for myself, I've posted my support for Olympic Swimmer, Donna De Verona's perspective...i.e. that once a transgender male enters Puberty, there should be no competition with cisgender females due to unfair biological changes that can't be reversed. It'll take some time to work out universal rules, but Tuberville and others like him are just using an infinitesimally small number of people to perpetuate hateful and mindless attacks on people trying to deal with a complex life experience...with actual suicides being an all-to-often outcome, because of those attacks. Shame on Tuberville.
Link: https://www.nbcnews.com/politics/congress/senate-democrats-block-bill-ban-transgender-athletes-womens-sports-rcna194623