'Pure insanity': Tuberville calls out Dems for believing men can get pregnant in push for Senate to vote on his Protection of Women and Girls in Sports Act

U.S. Sen. Tommy Tuberville (R-Auburn) on Wednesday called on Senate leadership to vote on his legislation preserving Title IX protections for female athletes to a vote.

During a speech on the Senate floor standing in front of a sign with a cartoon emoji of a pregnant man, Alabama's senior U.S. Senator laid out the importance of his Protection of Women and Girls in Sports Act, pointing to the Biden administration's "all-out assault on gender." He also pointed out the "insanity" that some people believe men could get pregnant, something he said had been argued on the Senate floor.

Tuberville described his bill as "common sense" and declared that Americans "want men out of women’s sports and women’s locker rooms."

Partial transcript as follows:

November 5, 2024. That is the day that the American people sent shockwaves to the swamp in D.C. when they overwhelmingly reelected Donald John Trump as President of these United States of America. Seventy-seven million Americans didn’t just deliver a mandate for President Trump - they also wanted his America First agenda. I come to the floor today to remind my Senate Republican colleagues that a critical part of the “America First” agenda includes prioritizing the safety of our women and girls in sports and protecting their privacy in bathrooms and locker rooms.
I’m here to call for a vote on my legislation, S. 9, the Protection of Women and Girls in Sports Act, that would save Title IX and save women’s sports. Today is National Girls and Women in Sports Day. That's today. To celebrate, President Trump will sign an executive order this afternoon in the White House ending Democrats’ intentional destruction of Title IX and saving women’s sports.
I’m very thankful for his leadership on this. President Trump’s executive order will make sure women’s sports are protected for at least the next four years. But unfortunately, executive orders can be reversed. Congress needs to act on this to make sure the next Democrat administration ... can’t take the same steps to destroy Title IX that the Biden administration took.
For the past four years, the Biden administration waged an all-out assault on gender. Since the beginning of time, people have agreed that sex is assigned at birth and determined by God. But under the Biden administration, you had people claiming that men can get pregnant. Here on this floor I heard that.
Pure insanity.
But it didn’t stop there. They weren’t content to just erase gender norms that have been accepted for thousands of years. No – they wanted to allow transgender men to participate in [women’s and girls’] sports. This has been happening at schools all across the country.
Young women have been forced to compete against men – and even to share locker rooms and showers. And on top of that, your taxpayer dollars are paying for it. Over the past several years under Joe Biden, 900 women’s medals went to men. .... That is absolutely wrong.
This one is personal for me. My first coaching job was in women’s basketball. Title IX was just starting to be implemented when I took that job. I saw firsthand the immediate difference it made. Before Title IX, at a lot of schools, college women’s athletics didn’t really exist. Back then, there were more than 10 times as many male athletes in college as female athletes.
After Title IX, that quickly changed. For the first time, the young women I coached had equal access to facilities, resources and competition.
I saw these hardworking young women go on to earn college scholarships, start careers and become leaders in their communities.
I still keep in touch with many of these young women today, and I’m deeply proud of them.
Looking back on it now, I wonder if they would have had the same opportunities without Title IX. Would they have had the same success if they had to compete against males 40 years ago?
This really shouldn’t be controversial. It's just common sense.