While Democrats in Congress and the White House have been hard at work dealing with the COVID-19 crisis, Republicans are keeping busy clutching their pearls over Cancel Culture and transgender schoolgirls.
Supposedly, they're afraid that girls' sports will forever be ruined by the superior prowess of MTF girls who are bulked up like the East German Olympians of 1970's cartoons. That's a little hard to swallow, however, in these days of cisgender women starting to find their way into men's sports.
Nevertheless, Requblican Senators Tommy Tuberville, Lindsey Graham, and Roger Marshall even tried to slip an amendment into the COVID-19 relief bill this week “to prohibit funds made… to States, local educational agencies, and institutions of higher education that permit any student whose biological sex is male to participate in an athletic program or activity designated for women or girls.”
Senator Tuberville's amendment was voted down, 50-49. (Joe Manchin, D-WV, voted in favor of the amendment; Lisa Murkowski, R-AK, voted against it. Otherwise, it was a party-line vote. Alaska's other GOP senator, Dan Sullivan, was back home for a family funeral.)
To put it another way, Tuberville's junk amendment having nothing whatsoever to do with coronavirus relief had the vote of each and every Republican south of Ketchikan who has complained that the bill passed yesterday is larded up with junk amendments having nothing whatsoever to do with coronavirus relief.
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