Demings voted for legislation that supported transgender athletes. But legal experts say the bill did not address curriculum, contrary to Rubio’s claim that she voted to allow “teaching radical gender identity without parental consent.'
"One hundred percent. That’s how often radical Val Demings votes with Nancy Pelosi," the narrator says in a RubioThe narrator makes claims about Demings’ voting record as photos of Demings and Pelosi appear against a black backdrop. Behind the photos, thunder crackles and a roof seems to cave in, collapsing in a cascade of debris.
Demings voted for legislation that supported transgender athletes, but, according to legal experts, it did not address curriculum.Asked for proof to support the claim, Rubio’s campaign cited the Equality Act, federal legislation Demings backed and the House passed in 2021 and 2019. The Senate did not vote on either version.to amend the 1964 Civil Rights Act to prohibit discrimination based on gender identity and sexual orientation.
Although the majority of states already allow transgender athletes to play in high school and college sports, the bill would have enshrined that right federally. transgender student-athletes in college and high school to compete on teams based on their gender identity rather than their sex asssigned at birth.A news anchor warned that if Hurricane Ian “moves 20 miles to the west … you and everyone you know are dead.”"It would bring the Civil Rights Act into explicit agreement with the Department of Education’s understanding of Title IX to allow transgender students to play sports," said Pennsylvania State University law professor Dara Purvis.
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