Between transgender-identifying men competing in women’s sports and women’s limited athletics funding coming from so-called Name, Image, and Likeness policies, Sen. Tommy Tuberville says, there will be no women’s sports left in five years unless something is done.
Tuberville, R-Ala., a former Auburn University football coach, met with President-elect Donald Trump’s pick for secretary of education, Linda McMahon, on Monday.
Afterward, Tuberville said McMahon is “totally against” men competing in women’s sports. The two discussed protecting Title IX, the 1972 federal law prohibiting sex-based discrimination in federally funded education programs.
“The Biden administration basically said … if you don’t allow transgender sports, men in women’s sports, then you lose your federal funding,” Tuberville told The Daily Signal, referring to the…