Hakeem Jeffries says trans athletes ban bill will ‘unleash predators on girls’ but offers no explanation how

House Minority Leader Hakeem JeffriesDN.Y., sent a post on Bluesky on Tuesday criticizing the proposed law to protect women and girls in sports and making baseless claims that the law would “unleash horrific child predators on girls and young women.”

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

Jeffries’ office did not provide a substantive explanation when contacted by Fox News Digital about how the law would accomplish this.

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

The proposed legislation to protect women and girls in sports 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 voted on Tuesday.

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

Specifically, the bill provides that it is a violation of Title IX of the Education Amendments of 1972 for any federally funded educational program or activity to operate, sponsor, or facilitate any athletic program or activity that allows persons of the male gender to participate in the program or activity intended for women or girls.

According to the bill Gender is based on an individual’s reproductive biology and genetics at birth.

The bill is just one page long and makes it clear that it is not a violation for “men to train or train with a sports program or activity intended for women or girls, as long as no woman is deprived of a spot on the squad.” or sports, opportunity to participate in a training or competition, scholarship, admission to an educational institution or any other benefit associated with participation in the sports program or activity.”

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

Jeffries isn’t the only prominent Democrat to call the law protecting women and girls in sports the Child Predator Empowerment Act.

Rep. Pete Aguilar of California spoke against the bill during a news conference Tuesday. Aguilar suggested that the fact that the bill does not set an age limit for girls’ sports “could lead to inspections and concerns from individuals.”

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“The most offensive thing about the legislation is that it does not differentiate between girls’ sports at any age. It doesn’t differentiate whether you want to be an Olympic athlete, an NCAA player, a high school sports player regulated by your state, or “I was just playing soccer on the street as a four or five year old.” Aguilar said.

“It could potentially lead to inspections and individuals raising concerns. And how you do that is something that concerns the House Democratic Caucus. And that’s why we felt this was the Republican child predator empowerment bill.”

Jeffries and Aguilar have each previously co-sponsored legislation that would allow trans athletes to compete in women’s and girls’ 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 guarantee students’ rights to participate in sports on teams and programs that best fit their gender identity.” .”

However, Democrats’ push to allow transgender inclusion in women’s sports became a party-wide weakness in the most recent election cycle.

A national exit survey A poll conducted by the CWA Legislative Committee found that 70% of moderate voters disliked the issue of “Donald Trump’s opposition to transgender boys and men playing girls’ and women’s sports and transgender boys and men running girls’ and women’s restrooms use” ​​as important to them.

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

A survey in June conducted by NORC at the University of Chicago Respondents were asked to consider whether transgender athletes of both genders should be allowed to participate in sports leagues that correspond to their preferred gender identity rather than their biological sex.

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65 percent answered that this should either never or only rarely be allowed. When respondents were asked specifically about adult transgender athletes competing on women’s sports teams, 69% disagreed.

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 Education Department was even forced in December to withdraw a proposed rule that would ban states from banning trans inclusion.

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