Linda McMahon speaks out on protecting women and girls from trans athletes during confirmation hearing

Linda McMahon made her stance wide connected trans inclusion successful women's and girls' sports during her confirmation proceeding for acquisition caput connected Thursday.

"I bash not judge that biologic boys should beryllium capable to vie against girls successful sports, and I deliberation present that surely not lone person the radical spoken, due to the fact that that was thing that Trump ran precise heavy on, but I judge the tribunal has spoken," McMahon said. 

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A national exit poll conducted by the Concerned Women for America (CWA) legislative enactment committee recovered that 70% of mean voters saw the contented of "Donald Trump’s absorption to transgender boys and men playing girls and women’s sports and of transgender boys and men utilizing girls and women’s bathrooms," arsenic important to them. And 6% said it was the astir important contented of all, portion 44% said it was "very important."

Trump vowed during his 2024 run to prohibition trans athletes from women's and girls' sports. Trump made bully connected that committedness aboriginal erstwhile helium signed the No Men successful Women's Sports enforcement bid connected Feb. 5. 

Prior to that, the Supreme Court ruled successful August to contradict a Biden medication exigency petition to enforce portions of the erstwhile president's Title IX rewrites that would let biologic males successful women's and girls' changing rooms. 

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And arsenic McMahon looks to get confirmed arsenic acquisition secretary, she insists connected carrying retired the archetypal ngo of Title IX, and keeping women's sports for biologic females. 

"We are truly backmost to what Title IX was primitively established to bash and that was to support societal discrimination. Women should consciousness harmless successful their locker rooms. They should consciousness harmless successful their spaces. They shouldn't person to beryllium exposed to men undressing successful beforehand of them," McMahon said Thursday. 

"I heard 1 idiosyncratic the different time say, ‘Well, guys should conscionable clasp the ablution curtain successful beforehand of them truthful that they aren’t exposing themselves.' I mean really, that's conscionable not what we should beryllium doing. We should beryllium making definite that Title IX, which is the law, should beryllium enforced." 

The Biden medication acquisition secretary, Miguel Angel Cardona, supported allowing trans athletes to vie successful women's and girls' sports. 

Cardona helped draught the Title IX changes that would person prohibited broad bans of transgender athletes connected nationalist schoolhouse teams. 

In a June 2021 interrogation with ESPN, Cardona said "transgender girls person a close to compete."

"Our LGBTQ students person endured much harassment than astir different groups. It's critically important that we basal with them and springiness them opportunities to prosecute successful what each different kid tin prosecute successful without harassment," Cardona said. 

"It's their close arsenic a pupil to enactment successful these activities. And we cognize sports does much than conscionable enactment ribbons connected the first-, second- and third-place winner," helium said. "We cognize that it provides opportunities for students to go a portion of a team, to larn a batch astir themselves, to acceptable goals and scope them and to situation themselves. Athletics provides that successful our K-12 systems and successful our colleges, and each students merit an accidental to prosecute successful that."

Now, nether the Trump administration, determination volition beryllium aggregate layers of efforts to forestall trans athletes from competing successful women's and girls' sports, and McMahon's docket volition beryllium 1 of those layers if she is confirmed. 

A caller New York Times/Ipsos survey recovered the immense bulk of Americans, including a bulk of Democrats, bash not deliberation transgender athletes should beryllium permitted to vie successful women's sports. Of the 2,128 radical polled, 79% said biologic males who place arsenic women should not beryllium allowed to enactment successful women's sports. 

Of the 1,025 radical who identified arsenic Democrats oregon leaning Democratic, 67% said transgender athletes should not beryllium allowed to vie with women.

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