NJ, VA Democratic candidates face scrutiny over trans sports voting records

New Jersey and Virginia, the governor of the state, each of them are democratic candidates with a record of congressional support Transient athletes In women’s sport.

Mickey Sherrill New Jersey and Ebgel Spanberger of Virginia have been scrutinized in recent days for her positions on this topic.

Spanberger was the subject of a modern viral interview with ABC13 when I was asked about converting people who play women and girls’ sports and use women’s bathrooms. The democratic candidate did not take a tangible position.

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“In Virginia, until very recently, we had an operation in place on the individual, one on one basis, schools, schools, parents, and trainers, they were making decisions based on fairness, competitiveness and safety, where the child may be able or may not be able to play in a specific sport,” said Spanberger.

When I was asked if she would support a bill that allows people converted in bathrooms and sports, Spanberger said: “I would like to support a draft law that would put clear provisions in a place that provides a lot of local ability to inputs, based on the era of children, based on the type of sport, based on competitiveness. Because I definitely realize.

“I realize that families and members of society may be profitable to the safety of their children, the competitiveness, and for fairness. I believe that the process that existed for 10 years was working. Those that took individual conditions and individual societies into consideration, and I think this is the process that Virginia should continue to benefit from.”

SPANBERGER was a participation of the Equality Law in 2021, which “prohibits discrimination based on sexual tendency, sexual identity and sex characteristics”, then in 2023, she voted against protecting women and girls in sports, which would have been protecting mathematics from transit competitors at the national level.

Meanwhile, Sherrill was a subject of criticism on social media for her vote in Congress on this issue.

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The former women’s swimmer at the University of Pennsylvania, and the women’s sport activist, Paula Scanlan, called for the first swimmer to gather in the controversy of Leah Thomas in 2022, on Sherrill about the number this week.

Like Spanberger, Sherrill has also participated in the sponsorship of the Equality Law, but Sherrill also participated in the care of the transformed law law, which “guarantees” some of the rights of transgender and non -Polyeen in relation to public services and residence “, including sports teams in line with sexual identity.

Sherrill also voted against the protection of women and girls in sports, twice, when the bill was proposed for the first time in 2023, and again in February when it was re -submitted.

New Jersey Go Sherrill attacked this record directly in drawing a campaign last week.

Sherrill’s opponent, Republican Jacques Seatarley, stated this issue to Cherrill in a publication in July.

Fox News Digital communicated with Sherrill and Spanberger campaigns that require clarity about the reason for their vote the way they made these previous bills, and whether they will impose on President Donald Trump CEO “keep men from sport” as a ruler of their states. None of the campaign provided a response.

Again in January, a New York Times Survey/Ipsos I found that the vast majority of Americans, including the majority of Democrats, do not believe that sexually transformed athletes should be allowed to compete in women’s sports. Of 2,128 people who participated, 79 % of biological males who are known as women are not allowed to participate in women’s sports.

Of the 1025 people who got to know Democrats or Democrats tending, 67 % said that sexually transformed athletes should not be allowed to compete with women. Of the 1022 Republicans, this number was 94 %.

81 independents who have been interviewed by the group that enjoy more say that the transgender athletes should not be allowed to compete. Only 64 % said they were against her, while 26 % rejected the answer. Only 3 % of Democrats and 1 % of Republicans refused to answer.

He says a Gallup survey last year.

Additional data indicates that the problem affected the 2024 elections.

A National exit poll The Legislative Action Committee for Women concerned for America (CWA) found that 70 % of moderate voters saw the issue of “Donald Trump’s opposition to children and transgender men who play sports for girls, women, boys and transgender men who use bathrooms and women.” 6 % said it was the most important issue ever, while 44 % said it was “very important.”

Meanwhile, the prominent democratic figures have retracted their party’s support for males in women’s sports, including Beit Batjejj, Javin News, and even Kamala Harris.

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In her latest book, “107 Days”, Harris wrote that she “agrees” to the concerns of parents and athletes who oppose allowing Males compete with females.

Harris wrote: “I agree with the concerns that parents and players have expressed that we must take into account biological factors such as muscle mass and unfair sporting advantage when we determine those who play on the difference, especially in sport on communication,” Harris wrote.

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