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Former Olympian slams Ketanji Brown Jackson’s refusal to define ‘woman’ amid Lia Thomas controversy
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Eli Bremer, a candidate for U.S. Senate and former Olympian who helped Congress write Olympic Committee reform payments within the wake of the Larry Nassar sexual abuse scandal, condemned President Biden’s Supreme Courtroom nominee, Choose Ketanji Brown Jackson, for refusing to outline the phrase “girl,” claiming that her response raised a pink flag amid contentious battles round transgender athletes and ladies’s sports activities.
“Regardless of being a girl, Joe Biden’s decide for the Supreme Courtroom couldn’t outline a girl as a result of she ‘is just not a biologist,’” Bremer advised Fox Information Digital. “In a world the place Lia Thomas, a organic male, is robbing organic feminine athletes of their titles and scholarships, how ought to any girl really feel that their rights will probably be protected underneath Joe Biden’s Supreme Courtroom?”
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Lia Thomas, a transgender swimmer who races on the College of Pennsylvania ladies’s group and who beforehand competed on the boys’s group, lately received first on the NCAA Championships. Critics have condemned the NCAA rule permitting male-to-female transgender swimmers like Thomas to compete towards ladies.
“Amongst different issues, ladies have fought for the suitable to have fairness within the office and protections by way of the creation of human useful resource divisions and have fought for Title IX,” Bremer added. “Defining a feminine in sport is the core situation of girls’s rights in sport, which have been federally protected by the federal authorities for the final 50 years.”
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“With organic males threatening ladies’s rights to compete it’s not unlikely that Title IX comes earlier than the Supreme Courtroom,” the previous Olympian famous. “If Choose Ketanji Brown Jackson is confirmed, I’ve no confidence in her capacity to guard ladies.”
“In any case, how are you going to defend one thing that you simply can’t outline?”
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“Ladies’s rights advocates and feminists in every single place ought to be calling for her to not be confirmed,” Bremer concluded, warning that Jackson “might ship the ladies’s rights motion again many years.”
Bremer, now a Republican candidate for U.S. Senate in Colorado, labored for the advocacy group Committee to Restore Integrity to the USOPC (U.S. Olympic Committee), and he helped Congress draft Olympic Committee reforms within the wake of the Larry Nassar sexual abuse scandal.