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00:04:28.340it starts right now story number one the supreme court they may have settled one legal question
00:04:34.480but politically, we're now seeing exactly what the Democrats are ready to do
00:04:40.040when it comes to allowing men in women's sports.
00:04:44.340Now, the Supreme Court ruled that states like Idaho and West Virginia
00:04:48.020can, in fact, enforce laws preventing transgender girls from competing in girls' sports.
00:04:53.980And Democrats, well, they immediately began making it clear
00:04:57.280they've got no intention of backing down.
00:05:00.660Instead, now they're preparing to make it one of their main defining issues
00:05:05.280heading into the midterm election cycle.
00:05:08.020J.D. Pritzker saying this on CNN about the ruling.
00:05:11.600The Supreme Court also today allowed states to ban transgender athletes
00:05:16.160from joining women's and girls' teams.
00:05:19.000Do you think the court was right on that, or do you think they were wrong?
00:05:22.800Well, look, we believe that people have a right to live the life that they were born to,
00:05:28.380the life that they want to. And in Illinois, anyway, we protect LGBTQ plus rights. We protect
00:05:36.520trans kids. Remember, in Illinois, trans athletes, we literally in high school have
00:05:42.580three trans athletes. We have 133,000 athletes in total in our high schools, and three of them
00:05:50.360are trans. Why is the Republican Party focusing on this issue? Why have they passed laws in,
00:05:56.980And I think 27 states that have restricted or banned outright trans kids being athletes in schools.
00:06:06.560It seems to me like, you know, they're just again, they're trying to foment on an issue that, frankly, I think we ought to be talking about bigger things.
00:06:14.960I know in the state of Illinois, we have much bigger challenges as they do all across the country with things like they've cut SNAP benefits.
00:06:22.380They've cut Medicaid. They've made life harder for people, raised prices.
00:06:25.940These are all things that we're having to deal with in our states, and they're trying to distract with something that has very little impact.
00:06:33.440Now, to be clear, J.D. Pritzker is saying that somehow Republicans are the ones that did this, even though it was Democrats that were allowing boys in women's sports.
00:06:43.780Then he says it's nothing but a distraction, and he wasn't done there.
00:06:48.040He also, again, laying the groundwork for what Democrats truly believe in, and that is destroying women in the games that they play and the scholarships that they receive and the awards they receive.
00:07:01.440But Republicans are using it and political campaigns, political messaging on the issue itself.
00:07:14.300I can tell you this, that those trans kids, you know, the I'm sure you've seen the statistics that depression and other mental health challenges are following these kids because of the way they're being treated in some communities.
00:07:28.600We ought to be sympathizing with the parents.
00:07:30.940We ought to be trying to help them help their children and not putting barriers in the way of children just being kids.
00:07:37.580Yeah. And Justice Kavanaugh was writing that he doesn't think that transgender athletes should be vilified or ostracized.
00:07:44.280When you look at the numbers, though, there was a Reuters Ipsos poll that found that 67 percent of Americans agree with the transgender athlete ban.
00:07:53.860Do you find yourself in agreement with those 67 percent of Americans?0.80
00:07:57.060I think that, first of all, this is a decision that gets made by a family.
00:08:02.100That's a decision that's been handled by schools and school districts for a number of years now.
00:08:07.920I think we ought to let it happen at the local level, as it has been.
00:08:11.960The three in Illinois have been just fine.
00:08:15.160Isn't it interesting how Democrats used this issue and pushed this issue and demanded this issue,
00:08:21.340And now they're trying to downplay it while also making it a very clear central point going into the midterms.
00:08:27.760Now, for Republicans, this decision represents years of, well, campaigning and fighting.
00:08:42.860When Donald Trump was running, he said, not only am I going to sign executive actions,
00:08:47.580Not only am I going to pressure athletic organizations, but I'm also going to make the logical argument that biological women deserve a level playing field.
00:08:57.600More than half the states, and you heard JB talk about this just a second ago, more than half of the country has already passed laws that were then up for grabs with the Supreme Court, banning men from competing in women's sports.
00:09:12.680Now, the political battle is now going to move to the campaign trail.
00:09:17.020Democratic leaders and activist organizations, they're already out there arguing and targeting the very small number, they say, of transgender student-athletes.
00:09:28.060Well, it is discrimination, and the treatment of transgender youth is terrible, even though this law and the Supreme Court ruling has nothing to do with how you actually treat a person.
00:09:39.140They're also promising to continue the legal challenges everywhere they can.
00:09:43.580Now, support of the ruling is also, well, very different.
00:09:47.860Many conservatives say this is a victory for common sense because you should absolutely protect women's sports.
00:09:55.660There should be fairness in athletics.
00:09:57.840And they point to all of the scholarships, what President Trump did well, the roster spots, the championships,
00:10:04.960the athletic record books that are changed when a man competes with women,
00:10:08.860and biological differences, it matters in competitive sports.
00:10:13.580And that's exactly why this made it all the way to the Supreme Court.
00:10:18.120But to be clear, what Democrats are now going to do
00:10:21.640is they're going to say that you've dehumanized trans athletes.
00:10:26.240If you want to start a trans league, you can absolutely do it.
00:11:36.680All right. By its nature, that's a sex classification. And all sex classifications, we have said repeatedly in our case law, require intermediate scrutiny.
00:11:47.660There are an awful lot of female athletes who are strongly opposed to participation by trans athletes in competitions with them.
00:12:00.340What what do you say about them? Are they are they bigots?0.99
00:12:05.580Are they deluded in thinking that they are subjected to unfair competition?
00:12:11.420No, Your Honor, I would never call anyone that.
00:12:13.380On the preliminary record in this case, and as the experts below agreed, circulating testosterone after puberty is the main determinant of sex-based biological advantage that HB500 sought to address.
00:12:26.320And on this record, Lindsay Hecox has mitigated that advantage because she has suppressed her testosterone for over a year and taken estrogen.
00:12:34.000HB 500 thus fails heightened scrutiny as applied to Lindsay and transgender women like her0.91
00:12:39.000who have no sex-based biological advantage as compared to birth sex females.0.94
00:12:44.260So it's going to come to this court and we have to decide for the whole country to constitutionalize this.
00:12:53.040I guess given that half the states are allowing it, allowing transgender girls and women to participate,
00:13:00.560about half are not why would we at this point just the role of this court jump in and try to
00:13:06.480constitutionalize a rule for the whole country while they're still as you say uncertainty and
00:13:12.500debate so here's what we know from all of that back and forth the supreme court justices came
00:13:19.140out and they said we must protect women's sports from men now this is going to become a defining0.91
00:13:26.240issue for the midterm elections elections are typically shaped by multiple factors including
00:13:32.380the economy immigration inflation and international events but both parties here clearly see the
00:13:38.920transgender policy as an issue that energizes important parts of their base their coalitions
00:13:44.480and one thing is actually certain now the supreme court issued its ruling but the political debate
00:13:51.500at least from the side of radical Democrats, is only intensifying.
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