Hakeem Jeffries says bill banning trans athletes will 'unleash predators on girls,' but doesn't explain how

House Minority Leader Hakeem Jeffries, D-N.Y., sent an article to Bluesky on Tuesday criticizing the Protecting Women and Girls in Sports bill, baselessly claiming the law would “release horrible child predators on girls and young women.

“The House Republican Child Predator Empowerment Act does not promote fairness and safety in sports. It will unleash horrific child predators on girls and young women across America. Unacceptable,” Jeffries wrote.

Jeffries' office did not provide a substantive explanation of how the law would do this when asked for comment by Fox News Digital.

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“The post speaks for itself,” a spokesperson for Jeffries’ office told Fox News Digital when asked for details about the comments.

The Protecting Women and Girls in Sports bill was reintroduced in the Senate by Sen. Tommy Tuberville, R-Ala., and by Rep. Greg Steube, R-Fla., in the House, where it will be vote. Tuesday.

This bill generally seeks to prohibit school sports programs from allowing individuals whose biological sex at birth was male to participate in programs intended for women or girls.

House Minority Leader Hakeem Jeffries speaks during a press conference on Capitol Hill, May 25, 2023. (Saul Loeb/AFP via Getty Images)

Specifically, the bill provides that it is a violation of Title IX of the Sports Amendments to operate, sponsor, or facilitate athletic programs or activities that permit male individuals to participate in programs or activities. education of 1972. which are intended for women or girls.

According to the bill, Sex is based on an individual's reproductive biology and genetics at birth.

The bill is only one page long and specifies that the fact that “men train or practice in a sporting program or activity designated for women or girls shall not constitute a violation, provided that no woman is deprived of a place on an athlete list. team or sport, opportunity to participate in training or competition, scholarship, admission to an educational institution or any other benefit that accompanies participation in the program or sporting activity.

Currently, 25 states already have their own similar laws to prevent trans athletes from competing against girls and women.

Jeffries isn't the only high-profile Democrat to call the Protecting Women and Girls in Sports Act the Child Predator Empowerment Act.

Rep. Pete Aguilar, Democrat of California, spoke against the bill during a news conference Tuesday. Aguilar suggested that the bill's failure to establish an age limit for women's sports could “lead to inspections and concerns from individuals.”

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“What's most offensive about the legislation is that it doesn't differentiate between what women's sports are at what age. It doesn't distinguish between if you want an Olympic athlete, an NCAA player, a high school athlete regulated by your state, or if you want “I played football when I was 4 or 5 years old on the streets,” Aguilar said.

“That could potentially lead to inspections and individuals raising concerns. And how you do that is something that the House Democratic caucus is concerned about. And that's why, you know, we felt that it s “It was the GOP's Child Predator Empowerment Act.”

Jeffries and Aguilar each co-sponsored a bill that would allow trans athletes to compete in girls' and women's sports — the Equality Act.

This bill “would amend federal education laws to ensure that they protect students from discrimination based on sex, including gender identity and sex characteristics, and ensure the right of students to participate in sports on teams and programs that best match their gender identity.”

However, Democrats' willingness to allow trans inclusion in women's sports became a party-wide vulnerability in the recent election cycle.

A national exit poll conducted by the CWA Legislative Action Committee found that 70% of moderate voters considered the issue of “Donald Trump's opposition to transgender boys and men playing girls' and women's sports and transgender boys and men using girls’ and women’s toilets” as important to them. .

And 6% said it was the most important question of all, while 44% said it was “very important.”

In June, an investigation conducted by NORC at the University of Chicago asked respondents to weigh in on whether transgender athletes of both sexes should be allowed to compete in sports leagues that match their preferred gender identity rather than their biological sex.

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Sixty-five percent responded that it should never or rarely be allowed. When respondents were asked specifically about adult transgender female athletes competing on women's sports teams, 69% opposed it.

Several Democrats have publicly withdrawn their support for trans inclusion, including Rep. Seth Moulton, D-Mass., Rep. Colin Allred, D-Texas, and Rep. Tom Suozzi, D-N.Y.

Biden's Department of Education was even forced to withdraw a proposed rule in December that would prohibit states from banning trans inclusion.

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