Donald Trump will address both houses of Congress Tuesday night, and one of his guests will be Payton McNabb, the now-19-year-old girl from North Carolina who was slammed so hard in the face by a volleyball hit by a male pretending to be a female player that she suffered permanent nerve damage and a traumatic brain injury.
She is a perfect person to be there so he can make reference to her and all the other young girls who have been injured or who have had their trophies stolen from them due to boys playing in their sports. And her presence comes on the heels of every Democrat in the U.S. Senate and both of the so-called “independents” – who are also secret Democrats – voting against the Protection of Women and Girls in Sports Act on Monday. They all voted ‘no’ even though this issue has 80 percent support among the American public.
The Bill
I believe this is a civil rights issues issue for girls and for women. They are already entitled to this protection under the existing law. It just has to be enforced. We have been through four years of Joe Biden, where he implemented these ‘reforms’ to Title IX. Trump has to try to undo it on a national level with executive orders, Title IX new guidance, and, ideally, a statute which would stop this pendulum from swinging back and forth and we could have predictability.
Keep in mind, the Democrats didn’t have the balls to allow a substantive vote on this bill, which specified, for athletic purposes, sex is solely determined by an athlete’s biology at birth. It also would have amended Title IX to bar federal funding to any educational institution allowing biological males to participate in female sports.
In the House of Representatives, it passed by a slim 218 to 206 margin. Just two Democrats broke from their party to pass the measure, Rep. Henry Cuellar of Laredo, Texas, and Rep. Vicente Gonzalez of McAllen, Texas.
Monday’s vote was for cloture, which is where you need 60 votes to allow a bill to proceed to the Senate floor for a real vote where you let majority rule as it always should. They wouldn’t let it happen. They affirmatively stopped it because they knew the GOP did have the majority. All 53 Republicans were ready to vote ‘yes’ on this, and they couldn’t get the chance to because they needed seven Dems to cross over in the procedural vote.
The Need for Legislation
If you are wondering why we need these protections codified, let me give you a few examples. Just last week, The Lion reported that at a track meet in Southern California, a biological male who goes by AB Hernandez finished first in the high jump, long jump, and triple jump competitions. In the latter, the junior jumped eight feet further than the female runner up.
Staying in California, the girls basketball team at San Francisco Waldorf High School had been dominating thanks to a boy named Henry Hanlon on the team who typically averages 20.2 points a game. He did not play in their recent playoff game, and guess what? Waldorf lost by 26 points. They really missed the biological boy on the team.
This is what girls are up against. You run into these athletic directors who want the ‘W’ or the school principal who wants the ‘W’ at all costs and/or extremely woke Californians who are like ‘boys or girls.’
Even CBS News, in reporting on what happened last night, wrote as follows: “Senate Democrats on Monday blocked a measure that sought to ban transgender girls and women from competing on school sports teams that match their gender identity.” Talk about not phrasing the problem correctly.
This is what we are up against. This is why it must be a federal statute. It cannot be a state by state experiment. We need national legislation. And while we don’t need this on girls teams, we do need more people with balls in Congress.
The ‘No’ Votes
With that said, here is who we need to keep our eyes on in the Senate. The senators who are from blue states like New York and California are not going to be punished for their absurd vote. The true villains are the ones in swing states. They must be targeted in the primaries, and I am begging Elon Musk to use some of his money to help defeat the following people:
In Arizona, both Senators have to go. Ruben Gallego defeated Kari Lake in November. She would have voted the right way. I liked Mark Kelly and I still have a personal affinity for him, but, I’m sorry, you need to go. If I could wave my magic wand, you are fired, sir, because you voted the wrong way.
In Georgia, it is Jon Ossoff, who has a daughter but doesn’t seem to give two sh-ts about what happens to her on the sports field, and Raphael Warnock, who I think is going soon anyway.
In Michigan, we have Gary Peters and Elise Slotkin. Slotkin didn’t even bother to attend the vote. She apparently didn’t think it was important enough – even though she is one of the women in the Senate – to show up and support young girls trying to work their way up the power chain behind her.
In Nevada, both Catherine Cortez Mast and Jackie Rosen will go if I have anything to say about it. In Pennsylvania, f-ck you, John Fetterman. You act like you are a man of the people, like you are going to look out for the week. You of all people understand what a brain injury can do. Screw you and your working class appeal. You don’t get it at all.
And then there is Wisconsin’s Tammy Baldwin, who exposed herself as a complete idiot in those confirmation hearings that I attended. She was one of the dopiest people we saw up there on Capitol Hill. I am not surprised she voted the wrong way.
Those are swing state Democratic senators who ruined the Protection of Girls and Women in Sports Act thanks to their ‘no’ votes. They ought to be made to pay at the ballot box the next chance we get.
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