Protecting the playing field: GOP urges governors to take action on women’s sports

EXCLUSIVE: Republican Sens. Jim Risch and Tommy Tuberville are urging governors crossed the state to adhere to President Donald Trump’s enforcement bid to support men retired of women’s sports portion besides demanding state-level enactment to guarantee pistillate athletes "receive the aforesaid assurance of fairness nationwide."

In February, Trump issued an enforcement bid titled Keeping Men Out of Women’s Sports and affirmed the presumption that the U.S. "must sphere fairness, safety, and adjacent accidental for pistillate athletes."

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Fox News Digital obtained a missive authored by Risch, R-Idaho, and Tuberville, R-Ala., and sent to the National Governor’s Association. The senators said their states person taken "decisive enactment to support women’s sports" but "many governors person yet to bash so" and are "jeopardizing a just playing tract for pistillate athletes."

Sen. Jim Risch, R-Idaho (Al Drago-Pool/Getty Images)

"The bulk of Americans hold that biologic men should not beryllium allowed to vie successful women’s sports," they wrote, saying that the enforcement bid "reinforces a cardinal truth: women and girls merit an adjacent playing tract connected which they tin vie and excel successful athletics." 

"The subject is wide that the biologic differences betwixt men and women are important and indispensable beryllium recognized successful diversion contention … Protecting women’s categories is indispensable to preserving the rights and opportunities that generations of women person fought to secure." 

Risch and Tuberville wrote that it is "misguided policies" that person "robbed excessively galore women of their earned diversion opportunities and successes and forced them into uncomfortable, and adjacent unsafe, situations." 

"State-level enactment is captious to guarantee America’s pistillate athletes person the aforesaid assurance of fairness nationwide," they wrote, applauding states that person taken "meaningful action" connected the president’s enforcement bid to show their "clear committedness to fairness, information and the aboriginal of women’s sports." 

Sen. Tommy Tuberville, R-Ala. (Victor J. Blue/Bloomberg via Getty Images)

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Risch and Tuberville are urging states that person not yet taken enactment to "take the indispensable steps to align with President Trump’s Executive Order immediately." 

Risch and Tuberville said they are "ready to spouse with governors and authorities leaders to instrumentality policies that support women and girls successful sports." 

"Together, we volition guarantee that the advancement made to grow and fortify women’s diversion opportunities continues for decades to come," they wrote. 

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Risch and Tuberville introduced the Protection of Women and Girls successful Sports Act successful the Senate to codify Trump’s enforcement order. 

Risch and Tuberville besides precocious sent a missive to the International Olympic Committee urging it to safeguard opportunities for pistillate athletes during the Olympic Games. In addition, they wrote to the NCAA requesting clarification connected its stance connected the privateness and information of pistillate athletes successful women’s changing rooms.