New Jersey gubernatorial candidate Sherrill silent on trans sports stance
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Governor Mikie Sherrill New Jersey Democratic candidate did not address the congress voting record for invoices related to transgender athletes in women’s sports.
President Donald Trump called Sherrill for his attitude in a real social article on Thursday.
“Sherrill open borders (again!), Men playing in women’s sports, transsexual for everyone and want everything that almost destroys America.”
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Representative Mikie Sherrill, DN.J., Washington, DC in the US Capitol Trump Management officials used by Trump Management officials during a press conference on a press conference on March 25 2025 during a press conference (Through Daniel Heuer/Bloomberg Getty Images)
Fox News Digital has reached Sherrill’s campaign many times for a statement about her stance on trans athletes in women’s sports, but did not respond.
Sherrill was the subject of criticism on social media due to the recording of congress votes on the subject. When the bill was first recommended for the first time in 2023 and again in February, he voted against the protection of women and girls in sports.
Sherrill also sponsored the Equality Act, but at the same time, the law of Transsexual Rights guaranteed certain rights in public services and accommodation for people who are more clearly “transgender and non -substituting”.
Sherrill is a self -declared “female athletics lawyer”. Previously, women in the NCAA Sports Law in the US House of Representatives, D-FLA.
However, recently, the congress has been the subject of criticism on social media due to voting in women’s sports.
Former Paula Scanlan, a female swimmer and women’s sports activist at the University of Pennsylvania, called Sherrill’s first Upennon Swiner on the subject of the school’s Lia Thomas debate in 2022.
New Jersey GOP attacked Sherrill for this record directly on a campaign chart last week.
Sherrill’s rival Republican Jack Ciattarelli talked about Sherrill in a task in July.
New Jersey is the original home state of Sadie Schreiner, a well -known transsexual athletic athletic athlete and field athlete, who had previously competed for the Rochester Institute of Technology, competed with a biological male trans athlete against women and shares usually dominant. Schreiner’s athlete RIT Athletics Page.
Schreiner filed a lawsuit against Princeton University for an alleged incident in a women’s race on May 3. Schreiner’s case claimed that the athlete’s women in Larry Ellis Invitational were trying to participate in Sprint of 200 -meter Sprint as one of the 141 participants. a university Or the club. The case claims that the authorities told Schreiner that the athlete could not participate 15 minutes before the race started.
Schreiner claimed that the university had violated the New Jersey law against the discrimination that determines the “gender identity or expression” as a protected status.
Since then, Schreiner filed a second case against Suny Genesco for banning a female race in March.
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In January, one New York Times/IPSOS SURVEY The majority of the democrats, including the majority of Americans, do not think that transsexual athletes should be allowed to compete in women’s sports. 79% of the participating 2,128 people said that biological men, defined as women, should not be allowed to participate in women’s sports.
67% out of 1,025 people described as Democrats or leaning against the Democrat said that transsexual athletes should not be allowed to compete with women. Among the 1,022 Republican, this number was 94%.
81 Independent, group transgender athletes should not be allowed to compete with the most reluctant represented. While only 64% said they were against it, 26% refused to answer. Only 3% of the democrats and 1% of Republicans refused to respond.
Approximately 70% of Americans say that biological men should not be allowed to compete in women’s sports. GALLUP SURVEY last year.
Additional data show that the problem affects the 2024 selection.
A National output survey The relevant women found that 70% of the moderate voters carried out by the Legislative Action Committee for the United States (CWA) were important for Donald Trump’s “transsexual men and women playing girls and women’s sports to the transgender men and men who use their baths.” And 6% said that this was the most important problem and 44% were “very important”.
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Meanwhile, the leading democratic figures supported the support of men in women’s sports, including Pete Buttigieg, Gavin Newsom, and even women in women’s sports. Kamala Harris.
In his last book “107 Days”, Harris wrote that he accepted the concerns of parents and athletes who oppose permission. Men compete with women.
“I agree with the concerns that we need to consider the biological factors such as muscle mass and unfair student athletic advantage when we determine which teams play in contact sports, especially in contact sports.” Harris said.
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