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James Lankford: “The court ruled on for states at this point. If a state has…”

Featuring: James Lankford, Republican | U.S. Senate, Oklahoma

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Lankford Reacts to SCOTUS Rulings Protecting Women's Sports, Birthright Citizenship

Published | Video Starts at 04:33

We'll see in due time. The court decision, as far as I can tell at this point, again, it just came out a couple of minutes ago going through it, but The court ruled on for states at this point. If a state has made a decision to not allow transgender athletes to be able to compete in a sport that is not their birth, then that state is allowed to do that. So this is not going to change, for instance, California, but it does reaffirm where we are in Oklahoma. (04:33–04:49)

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Asserts that the court allows states to decide on transgender athletes' participation in sports based on birth gender.

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