Lankford Challenges Dems Who Voted Against Protection of Women and Girls In Sports

OKLAHOMA CITY, OK – Senator James Lankford (R-OK), Republican Conference Vice Chair, hosted a floor event calling for common sense protections for women and girls in sports. This came after Democrats blocked a bill to protect female athletes. 

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Excerpt

“I am a proud dad of two amazing daughters. They’re remarkable young ladies that I am terribly proud of. I was also one of those dads that was up way before dawn, when they were in middle school and high school, because they were cross-country runners….They were remarkable athletes in high school, and they enjoyed that. They ran with guys and ladies when they were training and all of their time and the training time because the team was a team of guys and girls. But when they actually got to the competition day, my daughters competed against other girls in that competition, because what we all know to be a fact to be true, that boys in cross-country that are training for cross-country and girls that are training in cross-country—both great athletes—have different times to the finish line. That’s just a reality. It’s not one negative or another. It’s not diminishing one to the other. It’s a reality….This is common sense that we all know, and that we’ve all seen it in our own families and in communities. It’s the reason that we have protected women’s sports for years to be able to make sure women and girls have the ability to be able to have great competition, to enjoy the joy of sports and all the lessons that you learn from sports and to be able to have equal competition levels. But in the past few years, really very, very recently in our country there’s a movement to be able to say if a biological male or transgender individual wants to be able to compete in the women’s sports area, they should be allowed to do that. The question is, who is that fair to? Is that fair to this transgender individual or is that fair to the other female athletes?”

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