The Senate GOP’s The Senate Leadership Fund recently released an ad condemning Ohio Sen. Sherrod Brown for voting to allow men to compete in women’s sports. On Thursday, PolitiFact slapped a “false” label on the claim, but it had to allow Brown to have it both ways multiple times to do so.
Seth Richardson writes, “The ad cited Brown’s 2021 and 2024 votes against failed amendments to two broad funding bills as evidence for the claim.”
Richardson says this is wrong because “the amendments would have stripped federal funding from schools and colleges that allowed transgender girls and women to compete in sports matching their gender identity. They did not dictate athletic eligibility. Federal law rarely dictates who is eligible for specific sports.”
Senate Leadership Fund communications director Torunn Sinclair attempted to rebut, “You’re…
