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GOP Bill to Protect Women in Sports Blocked by Senate Democrats

New York Times House GOP-beat reporter (and frequent MSNBC presence) Annie Karni took the most cynical possible view of House Republicans attempt to protect women from men competing against them in sports in Wednesday’s edition, “Democrats Block Measure on Transgender Girls and Sports.”

By contrast, the filibustering Democrats who apparently want biological males to invade female sports competitions came off as heroic.

The cynicism started right from the lead sentence.

Democrats on Monday blocked a Republican-written bill aimed at barring transgender women and girls from school sports teams designated for female students, thwarting consideration in the Senate of the G.O.P.’s latest move to use transgender people as leverage at the dawn of President Trump’s second term.

With Democrats opposed, the measure stalled on a party-line vote of 51 to…

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