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2024-12-19 Home Front: Politix
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''Buy a Spine'': Sen. Kennedy Gets NCAA Prez to Bend Knee on Key Point in Heated Exchange on Trans Athletes
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[REDSTATE] The key issue in particular that is perhaps the most grating of all on Republican members of Congress is the one that has taken center stage in recent years involving so-called "transgender rights" including the inclusion of transgender "women" in women's sports, bathrooms, dressing rooms, etc.
It's an issue that has seen prominent female athletes strongly take public stands in favor of leaving women's sports as they were originally intended. One of those athletes, LGBTQ icon Martina Navratilova, has loudly spoken out on the matter only to see the same far-left groups who had previously praised her for being a groundbreaker in sports turn around and try to cancel her for the crime of WrongSpeak.
Riley Gaines, a champion former University of Kentucky swimmer, has also emerged as a leading voice on this topic after having to share the trophies podium (and locker room) with former University of Pennsylvania swimmer Lia Thomas, who identifies as a woman but who was born a man. Gaines has testified countless times before members of Congress on Capitol Hill and also before various state legislatures on the issue, and is currently part of a lawsuit against the NCAA.
It was Gaines' troubling experiences and those of other concerned girls and women that were at the heart of the aggressive questioning of NCAA president Charlie Baker during a Senate Judiciary Committee hearing Tuesday on sports gambling.
Baker unwittingly set himself up for quite the grilling with remarks made in his opening statement in which he declared that an "essential priority of the Association and its members is coordinating and delivering safe and fair competition."
Sen. John Kennedy (R-LA) took the ball and ran with it, questioning the former Massachusetts governor's statement and contrasting it with what he characterized as the NCAA's unfairness in not standing up against athletes like Lia Thomas being able to compete against female athletes.
At one point, Kennedy cornered Baker and got him to bend the knee on a key point by having him concede that men who compete against women in sports have an advantage "every time" after Baker initially (and laughably) claimed the point was "debatable."
''Why don't you go onto Amazon and buy a spine online and take a stand?'' Kennedy finally said at one point in frustration over Baker's continued insinuations that the NCAA didn't have a choice but to take the position they have because the courts supposedly have not provided "clarity" on the issue.
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