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Spencer Cox: “It wasn't just that there were four athletes. It was that we…”

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Published | Video Starts at 06:38

Well, yes and no. And what I would say is, if you go back and read the whole letter again, people focus just on the last piece of this. It wasn't just that there were four athletes. It was that we had actually worked on something that would protect women's sports. that would have prevented the vast majority of any transgender athletes from attempting, if there were any attempting to play sports. And by the way, that actually bore out. (06:38–06:46)

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Asserts that the vetoed bill was unnecessary because they had already worked on measures to protect women's sports.

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