President-elect Donald Trump's administration will validate two key moves that protect women's sports, Indiana Attorney General Todd Rokita told Newsmax on Wednesday morning.
The House on Tuesday passed a bill that would ban transgender athletes from competing in women's and girls sports at schools that receive federal funding.
Last week, a federal judge in Kentucky ruled that the Biden administration's Title IX rules expanding regulations for LGBTQ+ students overstepped the president's authority. The decision came in response to a lawsuit filed by Tennessee, Kentucky, Indiana, Ohio, Virginia, and West Virginia.
"I appreciate, having been a member of Congress, what the House did. It was a win for not only women and girls, but common sense," Rokita told "Wake Up America" co-host Marc Lotter. "But in Kentucky, just a few days ago, we got a permanent injunction against President [Joe] Biden's radical rewrite of Title IX that applies nationwide."
"So I'd like to think that your viewers, and indeed the whole nation, are protected in a double fashion. In fact, the court injunction has protection immediately, and we don't have to rely on getting that House bill through the Senate and to the president's desk."
Lotter suggested that, unlike during the Biden administration, Trump taking office on Jan. 20 assures that the federal government won't appeal court decisions that protect women's sports.
Rokita said, "Although we've been able to stop the Biden administration from forcing this down the throats of regular Americans and Hoosiers, that doesn't mean that a local school board or a school system can have a policy that allows men in girls locker rooms on their sports teams and doesn't mandate that students and teachers use preferred pronouns."
"Those policies … we're in a few lawsuits … those policies could still exist and could win the day. So this isn't the last step. This isn't the victory. We still have to fight for common sense in America, in Indiana, and throughout America. And that's why President Trump's second term is so important."
With the NCAA headquarters in Indiana, Rokita was asked whether the governing body for college sports will have added incentive to support women's sports.
"They should, you know; Indiana is not only the crossroads of America, but I like to say the epicenter of common sense," Rokita said. "We call it Hoosier common sense. And in that sense, I think we're a pretty good pulse and barometer for real people, real Americans. And that's America First, a policy agenda that you referenced at the beginning. And so I would hope that the NCAA does get on board and get on board quickly."
"In terms of my role as Indiana attorney general, I'm certainly monitoring their behavior and the rules that they make for colleges across the country. And it's time that they get in line and put American students first. And those students that go to American universities … no one wants women to be so manipulated for a political ideology as what we've seen from the Biden administration and the left generally."
"That's exactly what's been going on. And that's exactly what we're going to stop starting, not only with the attorneys general and the states, but now hopefully, with a Congress and a great president."
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