I had trouble choosing a headline. Do you like 1 or 2 better? lol
Headline 1 — Hakeem Jeffries (D): GOP Ban On Trans In Sports Sanctions Inspections Of Genitalia Of 4 Year Olds By Predators
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Headline 2 —Hakeem Jeffries (D): House Democrats, Uh, Believe That Fairness & Safety In Sports, Particularly As It Relates To Our Girls, Are Important Principles
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Transcript
Chris Hayes: “Today, there’s a vote today in the House, um, and I wanna read your quote on it, um, and your characterization of it. It would be a nationwide ban on trans youth in sports, um, or at least in sports of the, uh, gender they express. The House Republican, you called it the House Republican Child Predator Empowerment Act does not promote fairness and safety in sports. It will unleash horrific child predators on girls and young women throughout America. Unacceptable. There are only two Democrats that voted in favor. It passed on a fairly narrow party line vote. Why, why do you characterize it this way?”
Hakeem Jeffries: “Well, House Democrats, uh, believe that fairness and safety in sports, particularly as it relates to our children, our girls, uh, and boys who are playing either non competitive sports, recreational sports, and competitive sports all across the country. These are important principles and we support that. Uh, however, House Republicans are not serious, uh, about addressing any issues related to competition and safety. Their legislation is irresponsible. Effectively, what it would do, uh, is sanction, uh, without any guardrails, adults, including predators, for engaging in, uh, inspections of genitalia, uh, in children as young as 4 years old.
Now in the sports arena, we’ve seen repeated instances of sexual abuse gymnastics, that’s been the case, in wrestling, that’s been the case, in football, that’s been the case and in many other areas. And to have the federal government weigh in aggressively and sanction this type of invasions, uh you know, invasive inspections, uh, clearly would, uh, create a situation where childhood predators, uh, would be unleashed on the children of this country. Uh. And that’s why you saw significant number of Democrats say this is federal government overreach and it’s unacceptable.”
Chris Hayes: “Yeah, there’s many, as you’ve noted, many stories, of course, Michigan State and gymnastics, a very famous story out of Ohio State with a wrestling team there with a doctor on the wrestling team of the men’s wrestling team at Ohio State, enormous scandal that… ”
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Hakeem Jeffries is so full of it and Chris Hayes is a Democrat propagandist. Jeffries and Democrats do not care about the safety of girls and children in sports. Because if they did, they would not allow biological males to play against biological females.