Tommy Tuberville introduced anti-trans amendment to COVID relief bill, got voted down

[Yo_Mama_Been_Loggin]

As the United States Senate attempts to pass a $1.9 trillion COVID-19 relief bill, former Auburn football coach and current Alabama Senator Tommy Tuberville had one thing on his mind: anti-trans legislation.

Tuberville attempted to add an anti-trans amendment to the COVID-19 relief bill Saturday, but was voted down 49-50. If passed, the amendment would have prohibited funding to educational institutions that allowed trans women to compete in women's athletics.

Washington Senator Patty Murray, a Democrat, took Tuberville to task over the amendment, asking him to "have a little bit of heart and compassion in this world for someone who doesn't look or live exactly like you."

Link to tweet

Illinois Senator Dick Durbin called the amendment an attack on transgender kids and questioned why Tuberville would introduce an anti-trans amendment as part of a COVID relief bill that has been up for debate for over 20 hours.

https://sports.yahoo.com/tommy-tuberville-introduces-anti-trans-amendment-to-covid-relief-bill-gets-voted-down-160042675.html

[WhiskeyGrinder]

1. Manchin voted for it.

[leftieNanner]

3. And Lisa Murkowski voted no.

[dsc]

4. but he was the only Democrat who did so

which is nothing short of amazing.

[WhiskeyGrinder]

5. Especially since his state has the largest percentage of teens self-reporting as trans.

[dsc]

6. I am not defending his vote

though it likely was politically popular I am just amazed at how far Democrats as a whole has come. For us to have only one such vote on this issue is a nice surprise.

[WhiskeyGrinder]

7. And I'm not nagging you.

It's certainly politically unpopular among the teens in his state, I would think. We've come a long way. There is always more ground to cover.

[dsc]

10. I teach so I would say we might want to hold up on the hosannas of the new tolerant

age, teens are better on these issues but they are by no means uniformly so. We are definitely making progress, even among conservative teens but I still see some outward bigotry by teens at the school I teach at (and given that I am known for not accepting it I can only imagine what it is like in other rooms). In short, even if WVA has more trans teens per capital than any other state (and I would like to see the numbers behind this in terms of how large the N was for each state) that still doesn't mean the state as a whole is there yet.

[WhiskeyGrinder]

11. Yeah, I'm definitely not saying the state is there "as a whole."

Per-cap gets weird in small populations, but because it's WV, I still feel it's remarkable. Here's a link to the study, which came out in 2017: https://www.documentcloud.org/documents/3475680-Age-of-Individuals-Who-Identify-as-Transgender.html

[regnaD kciN]

14. The fact that such an amendment failed by only ONE vote is not comforting...

Sure, Manchin was the only Democrat to vote for it, but every damn Republican except Murkowski was in favor. That includes Susan "Concerned" Collins, Mitt "I Voted To Convict Trump Twice" Romney, Ben "I'm The Adult In The Room" Sasse, and the rest of the whole sorry lot. If they even had a shred of decency, it would have been voted down by a wide margin.

It makes me wonder how many current Republican senators would vote in favor of a motion reestablishing slavery? I'd say at least 48, maybe more.

[Maraya1969]

13. Do you have any idea why that is? Do you think the incidence is actually larger

or are more trans people just speaking up about it.

[WhiskeyGrinder]

17. About WV? No idea.

[Tanuki]

20. They didn't actually survey teens. They estimated what they thought

teens would say if asked, based on the self report of adults.

https://www.nytimes.com/2017/02/23/us/transgender-teenagers-how-many.html

"Nearly 150,000 American teenagers from 13 to 17 years old — or one out of every 137 — would identify as transgender if survey takers asked, according to an analysis of state and federal data that offers an answer to a question that has long eluded researchers.
...

The analysis, an extrapolation based on adult responses to a federal survey, represents an indirect way of arriving at a figure that many advocates consider to be of crucial importance.

...
The Williams Institute estimates are based on a large Centers for Disease Control and Prevention survey known as the Behavioral Risk Factor Surveillance System. In addition to a core set of questions asked nationally, the C.D.C. allows states to choose from several optional questions to ask their residents. One such option, selected by about half the states in 2015 and slightly fewer in 2014, inquired about transgender identity. More than 150,000 people answered the question each year.

With that in hand, the researchers applied an advanced statistical technique regarded by some academics as an emerging gold standard for making state estimates using national data, based on well-worn demographic and geographic patterns. The researchers extended the findings of the survey to all 50 states, after accounting for differences in race, age, education, income and religion. The C.D.C. surveys only adults, but the authors used trends among older age groups to estimate the number of teenagers who would identify as transgender if asked."....(more at link)

[Celerity]

22. IF Murkowski had not voted NO, would Manchin have changed his vote to NO? TIA

[dsc]

23. that is a great question

and like most times that is said, the answer will not be so great. I don't know.

[leftieNanner]

2. Well Done Patty! nt

[Orangepeel]

8. 49-50

[RicROC]

9. dumb jock

has no business being in politics or in any other position where intelligence is required.

[vercetti2021]

12. Fuck off Tubby ass

We're not going anywhere. So stick it up your ass.

[gratuitous]

15. A bump in the minimum wage wasn't germane to the Covid-19 relief bill

But this little piece of naked bigotry was?

Any Senator who voted against the minimum wage amendment and in favor of Tuberville's amendment is lacking a heart, a soul, and any sense of decency. Shameful.

[kairos12]

16. He's an evil bag of hammers.

[misanthrope]

18. He also coached at Ol' Miss

Texas Tech and Cincinnati. Why does Auburn have to get saddled sole ownership of this buffoon?

[andym]

19. GOP is now the party of culture wars-- they define traditional values as the bedrock of conservatism

That's what they talk about most-- they care much less about economics it appears.

[radius777]

21. Manchin's vote in this case is, unfortunately, consistent

with the views of his very culturally conservative state. But his other votes that tighten the money that people can get are not, as his residents and his governor want the money. Basically Manchin stinks and we need to expand our majority to make him irrelevant. If this anti-trans amendment had passed it possibly could've sunk the entire bill.