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John Thune: “Last March, the Senate took up the Protection of Women and…”

Featuring: John Thune, Republican | Senate Majority Leader, South Dakota

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Thune: The SAVE America Act Delivers Commonsense Protections for Women's Sports & America's Children

Published | Video Starts at 03:46

With the way they talk about themselves, the defenders of women's rights, you would think they would be the first, the very first people up to bat for fairness and equality for female athletes. But they're not. Last March, the Senate took up the Protection of Women and Girls in Sports act legislation to ensure that women and women only participate in women's sports at federally funded educational institutions. And every single. Not one of my Democrat colleagues voted against the bill. Not one Democrat had the courage to say that women's sports are for women. (03:46–03:59)

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Asserts that the Senate considered legislation to restrict women's sports to biological women.

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