As female athletes and lawmakers across the country fight to keep biological males out of women’s sports Competitions and Locker Rooms A Democrat running for the House of Representatives says she and female athletes are not concerned about the issue.
Sue Altman, who is running for New Jersey’s 7th Congressional District, said New York Post That she and others in the women’s locker room are not concerned about the presence of transgender athletes in women’s sports.
Altman said, “As someone who has been working to advocate for women’s rights and women’s sports, I promise you that in the locker rooms of women’s sports teams, we are not too concerned about this. ” “We’re concerned about equal access to gym time, good referees, good coaches so you don’t get injured, fair changes in scholarships, equal pay at a high level.”
Altman advocated allowing Transgender athletes in girls’ sports at the youth level, but she suggested she would be in favor of leaving the decision on whether to allow those athletes to compete to individual committees.
“I’ll let individual sports committees decide the highest, highest level things, but at the core of it, we have to respect people of all genders and respect young children, especially young people and teens who struggle with their gender identity. , a chance to compete,” she told the Post.
“I grew up with people who are now trans, who transitioned from boy to girl or girl to boy, and those people struggled through adolescence.”
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New Zealand’s Laurel Hubbard, the first transgender Olympian, is looking to advance in the women’s 87kg weightlifting final at the 2020 Tokyo Olympics. (Wally Scalise/Los Angeles Times via Getty Images)
Altman is a former women’s college basketball player who played at Columbia University in the early 2000s. She finished her career as the program’s eighth-leading scorer in history with 964 points. He did this despite playing for Holy Cross his freshman year, transferring to Columbia, and sitting out his sophomore year due to NCAA guidelines.
Altmann also played professionally in Europe for Kilkenny in the Irish Women’s Super League in Dublin and for Medical Instinct Weilchen in Goettingen, Germany.
Almatan has said that she grew up in a Republican family but that her time in Colombia has made her more liberal. in an interview with columbia students Newspaper In March, she cited the Bush administration’s response to 9/11 as her reason for switching allegiance during her time in college.
He now represents Representative Tom Kean Jr., R-N.J. She is contesting the election against A.K., who has more than 20 years of experience in the House of Representatives.
Altman is also running in an election year that has seen multiple lawsuits filed by female athletes and transgender athletes in women’s sports and at least 24 lawsuits filed by state attorneys general in response to Title IX changes by the Biden-Harris administration There are, some argue, biologically capable men in women’s locker rooms and on their playgrounds.
In April, the administration issued a sweeping rule to clarify that Title IX’s ban on “sex” discrimination in schools covers discrimination based on gender identity, sexual orientation, and “pregnancy or related conditions.”
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President Biden and Vice President Harris (Saul Loeb/AFP via Getty Images)
Rule Became effective August 1 and stated in law for the first time Discrimination on the basis of sex involves conduct relating to a person gender identity. The Biden administration stressed that the regulation does not address athletic eligibility. However, many experts presented evidence Fox News Digital was told in June that the proposal would eventually include more biological males in women’s sports.
On 16th August, Supreme Court Voting 5-4 to deny the Biden administration’s emergency request to implement parts of that new rule, including protections from discrimination for transgender students under Title IX, more than two dozen Republican attorneys The general had filed a lawsuit against the administration to stop its enforcement. ,
Meanwhile, Brooke Slusser, a member of the San Jose State women’s volleyball team, joined 18 other athletes. Sue the NCAA On its gender identity policies. The lawsuit alleges that Slusser, who transferred to San Jose State, was concerned for her safety after realizing one of her freshman teammates, Blair Fleming, was transgender. San Jose State’s three opponents have already lost games against the team since news of the lawsuit broke.
Former NCAA swimmer and OutKick contributor Riley Gaines testifies about her experience competing and sharing a locker room with transgender athlete Lia Thomas, a biological male, at Georgia and four other NCAA All-American female athletes. Gaines is joined by Reka György, Kylie Allons, Grace County and Kaitlin Wheeler, all members of the Independent Council on Women’s Sports, which filed a lawsuit against the NCAA in March, alleging the association misappropriated Thomas by allowing her to compete. Willfully violated Title IX.
The committee’s investigation will focus on the 2022 NCAA Division I Women’s Swimming and Diving Championships, where Thomas competed for the University of Pennsylvania women’s swimming team. Goins competed against Thomas, who identifies as a woman, at the 200-yard championships in 2022 and ultimately tied.
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University of Pennsylvania swimmer Lia Thomas, left, and Kentucky swimmer Riley Goins are shown after finishing fifth in the 200 freestyle final at the NCAA Swimming and Diving Championships on March 18, 2022. (Rich von Bieberstein/Icon Sportswire via Getty Images)
Not far from Altman’s constituents in the Northeast, a Republican governor has already passed an executive order to ensure that schools prevent biological males from competing in women’s sports.
On August 28, Idaho Governor Brad Little signed an executive order to implement the Defending Women Sports Act, which issued new protocols for the state’s public schools to promote the exclusion of transgender athletes in women’s sports. . In an exclusive interview with Fox News Digital on August 30, Little did not rule out conducting gender eligibility testing for all girls and women’s sports teams, but said “I would have to see really good evidence that it’s necessary. “
But Altman says she wants to reduce the barriers for transgender athletes to compete as women for the sake of their mental health.
“If we as a society decide who is female and who is not, making rules about who is female is more important than giving young kids a chance to join teams and compete and be a part of something bigger than themselves , especially young people who are more vulnerable to suicide and bullying, so I think we’ve lost our way a little bit,” Altman said.
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