This amendment would have barred all federal funding to schools and colleges that let ANY trans women or girls participate in women and girls' sports under any circumstances. Needed 60 votes, got 49. Murkowski and Manchin were only two Senators to flip.
https://twitter.com/SenatePress/status/1368202761003794433
And please don't come into my mentions defending this proposal on the grounds that trans women and girls' participation in sports is a complicated or hard question, because this proposal doesn't treat it as a complicated or hard question.
The premise of the Tuberville amendment is that the exclusion of trans women and girls from women's sports in educational settings should be absolute, and that the budgetary power of the federal government should be used to police that exclusion.
The position the amendment takes is an absolutist anti-trans position. And the project of creating space for difficult conversations is not advanced by allying oneself with reactionary lawmakers' absolutist stances.
Since folks have asked, my own view is that various governments and institutional bodies seem to be doing a pretty good job of coming up with procedures for facilitating trans inclusion in a sensible way, and that I'm happy to mostly watch and learn as that process unfolds.
If you have critiques of the specifics of those various approaches and want to roll up your sleeves and dig in on the specifics of policymaking in this arena, by all means go for it. But the Tuberville amendment isn't that. Not by a long shot.
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