ICYMI: Tuberville, Lummis Discuss Fight to Protect Female Athletes on “National Report”

House passed Protection of Women and Girls in Sports Act by vote of 218-206 earlier this week

WASHINGTON - Today, U.S. Senator Tommy Tuberville (R-AL) and U.S. Senator Cynthia Lummis (R-WY) joined "National Report" on Newsmax to discuss the Protection of Women and Girls in Sports Act, legislation they introduced to keep biological males from competing in girls' and women's sports. The U.S. House of Representatives passed the Protection of Women and Girls in Sports Act by a vote of 218-206 earlier this week, with two House Democrats voting in support.

Excerpts from the interview can be found below, and the full interview can be viewed on Rumble or YouTube.

ON SIGNIFICANCE OF TITLE IX:

GLASGOW: "Alabama Senator Tommy Tuberville is leading this bill, and Wyoming Senator Cynthia Lummis is among the two dozen cosponsors of the bill. Senators, thank you for your time. Obviously, a very important topic, but for many they're questioning why would you have to pass legislation for something as common sense as this. Title IX protections already in place, yet here we are. Senator Lummis, I'll let you take that."

LUMMIS: "Coach Tuberville and I were just talking about that before we got on the air. It's only common sense that we preserve women's sports for biological women. It's dangerous to have men in the locker room-not to mention extremely uncomfortable-and it's ridiculous to put the superior physiology that men enjoy in competition with women. It's just common sense to have women's sports that are just for women."

RECHENBERG: "Indeed. And so much so that it passed in the House with support from Republicans-a couple of Democrats-but not everyone was happy about it. This is a sound bite from New York Democratic Congresswoman Alexandria Ocasio Cortez. Let's listen together."

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"And again, she was looping in Republicans with that idea. Senator Tuberville, would you like to respond to that?"

TUBERVILLE: "Well, first of all, there's no common sense here as Senator Lummis says. I started coaching back years ago when Title IX started, and it gave many opportunities to young girls and women to enhance their future. It gave them an opportunity-the same as boys had, and you learn a lot from sports. Now, the Democratic party wants to tear it down. They have yet to figure out why they lost November the 5^th-well, I tell you why they lost: a major part of it was because they have lost their ever-loving mind. When they're allowing boys or men to shower with girls, to dress with girls, and to participate when it is very unsafe. It's not going to happen. I've got my first grandchild, Rosie Grace, and I promise you one thing: she's not going to participate in that, but she's going to have an opportunity to participate in sports because we're going to beat back these Democrats on this nonsensical nonsense that they keep pushing, and whatever this lady is-Cortez-she has no business even talking because they have tried to destroy gender ever since she's been into office."

GLASGOW: "Senator Lummis, I'll have you respond to that as well. I mean AOC used some harsh words there-specifically calling those that supported 'a bigot.' Do you see yourself as that?"

LUMMIS: "Well of course not. The University of Wyoming volleyball team was put up against a team from California that had a trans person on the team who can spike the ball 80 miles an hour. That can cause a concussion to a girl. For safety reasons, we need to make sure that boys are competing as boys, men are competing as men, and women have their space to compete with other women. So, heaven forbid, I am not a bigot. In fact, I am angry. As someone who went to high school before Title IX, did not have opportunities to play competitive sports-I see what Title IX has done for my daughter and generations after her. It's made an opportunity for women to learn competition, hard work, discipline, getting up early, losing and staying with it. The advantages of sports, competitive sports, for everyone builds character, and as someone who did not get to participate in that because I was a pre-Title IX girl, I'm so happy that Title IX exists. I want to protect Title IX for the very people that it was intended to protect and that's biological girls and women."

RECHENBERG: "Thank you for sharing that. And of course, your efforts don't go unnoticed, especially for Rosie Grace as she begins to grow up and she'll play in sports potentially, Senator. We wish her the best, and your family as well."

ON PETE HEGSETH:

RECHENBERG: "Can we pivot and talk about what else is happening on the hill? Those are the confirmation hearings for Donald Trump, President-elect. Pete Hegseth started it off this week. Many Democratic colleagues of yours grilled him pretty harshly. We've got some of those moments-we'll play it for you now."

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"Senator Tuberville, what did you think of those questions and do you believe Pete Hegseth should be confirmed?"

TUBERVILLE: "Well, first of all, their game plan was obvious: seek and destroy. They came in to destroy the personal life-not the military, but the personal life-of Pete Hegseth. He's perfect for the job. He stood up to them. He did an excellent job of coming back on everything that they threw at him. But again, at the end of the day, you have to look at somebody that's going to take a job like this. They kept going after him, 'You've never been around this many people, or had to control three million people or all these employees.' Nobody has. My gosh-I mean these people have lost their minds. So, he did a great job. He's going to be a great Secretary of Defense-he won over a lot a lot of people across this country, and he's got a lot of people behind him that are either veterans or former military people or present military people, and he's a great age because he's young, energetic, and he can communicate with all these young people that we need to recruit."

GLASGOW: "Yeah. Senator Lummis, are you a 'yes' on Pete Hegseth to lead the Department of Defense?"

LUMMIS: "I am. We have a recruitment problem. We need to inspire young men and women to join our military and Pete Hegseth is one of the best spokespeople in the whole country for inspiring young men and women to serve our country in that manner."

RECHENBERG: "Alright. We'll be watching for the votes that'll be coming in soon. Of course, the President-elect has to be sworn in again with the inauguration on Monday. Thank you both for joining us this morning. It's been such a pleasure to speak with you-Alabama Senator Tommy Tuberville, Wyoming Senator Cynthia Lummis."

Senator Tommy Tuberville represents Alabama in the United States Senate and is a member of the Senate Armed Services, Agriculture, Veterans' Affairs, HELP, and Aging Committees.

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