On Monday, the Democrats prevented a democratic written bill aimed at banning women and girls of transsexuals by school sports teams designated for female students, preventing the Senate of the latest GOP movement to use the TRANS.
With the Democrats, on the other hand, the measure resulted in a vote from 51 to 45, remaining the 60 votes needed to overcome a filibuster and to be examined. The bill, which passed the House in January to a large vote, will prohibit federal funding from the transition to K-12 schools that include transsexual students in women and girls sports programs.
It reflects one of the goals of an executive command that Mr Trump signed last month entitled “Keeping men from women’s sports”, which is charged by the Department of Education by changing the interpretation of civil rights laws so that schools who have failed to prevent them from failing.
Senate Republicans claimed that it was necessary to protect the girls from predatory men who violate their private spaces and seek to gain an unfair sports advantage based on sex, even when they hint that the measure was intended to put a policy.
“Democrats can stand for women or stand with a radical ideology of transsexuals,” Senator John Thune, a Republican of the Southern Dakota and the majority leader, said on Monday. If they opposed the legislation, he said: “They should respond to women and girls who vote to discourage.”
Democrats denounce legislation as an attempt by Republicans to forge the political advantage of a small but vulnerable population of transsexual children who would eventually endanger girls supposedly protection.
“What Republicans do today is to invent a problem to provoke a cultural war and divide people against each other and distract people from what they really do,” said Senator Brian Schatz, a Hawaiian democratic. Called the bill “completely unrelated to 99.9 % of all people across the country”.
The measure was funded by Senator Tommy Tuberville, Alabama’s Republican and former high school girl basketball coach, who surrounded it as an example of the way the Democrats were out of contact with an ordinary view. On the Senate floor, GOP legislators said polls showing that the majority of Americans, including most democrats, believed that biological males should not be allowed to play women’s sports.
Many Democrats in Congress have agreed that there are real concerns about transsexual athletes who compete in women’s sports at the highest levels. But they argued that sports associations should make these decisions, not to legislators who pass wide accounts at federal level that combine competing athletes and young children who just want to participate in school activities with their friends.
More than two dozen states are already blocking transsexual athletes from participating in school sports, either in K-12 or collective schools.
On Monday, the Senate Democrats claimed that the legislation was not only an attack on basic human dignity but also a waste of time. Of more than 500,000 NCAA athletes, they noted, less than 10 were recognized as transsexuals.
Senator Richard J. Durbin, a Democratic of Illinois, also noted that the bill had no enforcement mechanism and “could submit women and girls to a natural inspection by an adult if one of an opposing group accused them of being a transgender”.
From power and political desert, the Democrats of Congress have few levers to pull to stand on the road to the Republican Administration TrIFecta. But Filibuster remains one of the latest ways to block the legislation that otherwise could make its way to Mr Trump’s office for his signature.
Earlier this year, the Senate Democrats are also blocking a measure that would have been submitted to some doctors performing abortions in criminal penalties. They are blocking a democratic bill to impose sanctions on officials linked to the International Criminal Court, which Republicans wanted to reprimand the decision of his senior prosecutor to accuse war crimes against the leaders of war.
