WASHINGTON – Today, U.S. Senator Tommy Tuberville (R-AL) joined “The Faulkner Focus” to discuss the fight to protect female athletes and the Stop Institutional Child Abuse Act that is now headed to President Biden’s desk to be signed into law.
Excerpts from Senator Tuberville’s interview can be found below and his full interview can be watched on YouTube or Rumble.
ON RECENT SENATE HEARING WITH NCAA PRESIDENT CHARLIE BAKER:
FAULKNER: “Republican Tommy Tuberville of Alabama, a member of the Armed Services Committee. You saw the salute. We thank him for his service. He also introduced a bill challenging President Biden’s changes to Title IX, which allow men to use women’s bathrooms and locker rooms. I mean, you said there’d be a slippery slope. You were right.”
TUBERVILLE: “Well Harris, thank you for your fight on this, and thank you for bringing to light before the election with President Trump in your interview. I think that had a big, big push to get him elected. But at the end of the day, I’ve got a granddaughter named Rosie Grace. She is not gonna dress with boys—biological boys—in dressing rooms. She’s not gonna take a shower with them, and she’s not gonna compete with them. Now Dick Durbin said along with Charlie Baker that, ‘Oh, we’ve only got a handful of biological boys in women’s sports and NCAA.’ We’re not just talking about that. We’re talking about elementary school. We’re talking about junior high. We’re talking about senior high. We’re talking about all women, and they are being downgraded simply for the fact that the far left wants to add gender into the mix along with climate hoax and all the other nonsense that they’re trying to push on this country, and they’re trying to destroy it. So, we’re not gonna allow them to destroy women’s sports. We’re gonna fight for it. We’re gonna try to keep these wacko judges out of the fight and put them in the right direction.”
FAULKNER: “Well look, Rosie [Grace] has a grandfather who’s really fighting for her and other little girls and this really is going to take a fight because apparently, there’s a push by—I don’t know if it’s just Charlie Baker, head of the NCAA—or if there’s more like him in leadership and sports, but they want to make hundreds of thousands of people capitulate for fewer than ten other people. Like, we don’t do that in any other part of society. Do we?”
TUBERVILLE: “No. You’re exactly right. Charlie Baker does not believe this. He is—he hates lawsuits, Harris. He is under the gun with lawsuits right and left. He’s trying to keep the NCAA afloat. But at the end of the day, I know complete entire high school sporting teams across the country in different states that are all biological boys participating in women’s sports—the entire team. And so don’t tell me that it’s a small problem. It’s a problem that’s gaining momentum on the left and they’re pushing it, but we have got to stop it in its tracks. If we don’t, we’re gonna end up with a huge tragedy here. And again, you’re not gonna have Title IX, you’re not gonna have women’s sports, and it’s wrong because Title IX is the one of the best things to ever come out of this building up here. It’s helping women become leaders across this country.”
FAULKNER: “Well, there appears some on the left who don’t agree with you on that. I don’t know—they’re supposed to be the party of women. They can’t define a woman. But now we’re just asking them to define a man and a woman in a small-space locker room and in sports. It’s not hard.”
ON WORKING WITH PARIS HILTON TO PASS STOP INSTITUTIONAL CHILD ABUSE ACT:
FAULKNER: “Alright. We’ll move on. Paris Hilton on Capitol Hill this week, she scored a major legislative victory on an issue very personal to her. The Stop Institutional Child Abuse Act is headed to President Biden’s desk. It passed the Senate unanimously and cleared the House with overwhelming bipartisan support. The new legislation would require regular studies and reports. It would then work on solutions to prevent child abuse and deaths in youth residential programs. Paris Hilton shared her own experience as a victim.” […]
“An emotional growth boarding school, and it turned out to be a nightmare and a dangerous one. Paris Hilton took to social media with this post thanking you, Senator, and others for their support. She got emotional after the senate passed it. ” […]
“Senator Tuberville, can you tell me what maybe some of the talk on the hill was about this?”
TUBERVILLE: “Well, I tried to explain it to a lot of my fellow senators here. I didn’t know anything about this three years ago. I got involved with Paris Hilton’s bill here, and I actually went to Utah, went to some other states and looked at some of these places, and I was appalled by how they’re treated, how they’re drugged. And so, I got into the fight with her, and we’ve been pushing this thing for several years, but it is a huge problem. And all this bill says is ‘Start reporting your problems that you’re having. Because if you don’t, you’re gonna basically lose your license.’ It’s a huge problem across the country. We have a drug problem. A lot of these kids are on drugs that go in some of these places. But again, at the end of the day, it’s about treating people the right way. All you have to do is read Paris Hilton’s book—which I did—and I was amazed at what she went through. Here’s a young girl that had everything going for her, and her parents actually believed the people that were take supposedly taking care of her—they were doing just the opposite. So, just be careful what you do in the places that these kids are put into, and they cost a fortune, Harris, to put them in.”
FAULKNER: “Oh yeah.”
TUBERVILLE: “Ten, fifteen thousand [dollars] a month. It’s a fortune.”
FAULKNER: “Look, you can’t legislate morals, but you can change the game. And that’s what, as you were explaining to some of those colleagues on the hill and what we’ll see now with this bill, that’s the goal here. Thank you very much, Senator. Always great to have you ‘in focus.’ ”
TUBERVILLE: “Thank you. Merry Christmas.”
FAULKNER: “Merry Christmas.”
Senator Tommy Tuberville represents Alabama in the United States Senate and is a member of the Senate Armed Services, Agriculture, Veterans’ Affairs, and HELP Committees.
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