Ex-NFL punter applauds Senate Dems after bill to prohibit males from women's sports fails to break filibuster

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Chris Kluwe, a former NFL punter who was recently thrust into the national spotlight after he was arrested at a California city council meeting, voiced his support for lawmakers who blocked the Protection of Women and Girls in Sports Act from moving forward in the Senate.

Republican lawmakers failed to get the 60 votes needed to break a filibuster. 

Not a single Senate Democrat voted in favor of the bill. Two Republicans and two Democrats were absent from the vote.

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Ex-NFL punter Chris Kluwe speaks during a Huntington Beach City Council meeting.  (City of Huntington Beach)

Kluwe, who played for the Minnesota Vikings his entire career, reacted in a post on BlueSky.

"I support and am happy the party came together to stop this," Kluwe wrote. "However, this is what they should be doing on EVERYTHING. I’ve said it before and I’ll keep saying it - we are in an existential crisis as a country. We’re either going to emerge as Americans, or as something else."

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Minnesota Vikings punter Chris Kluwe walks off the field after a game against the Houston Texans at Reliant Stadium. (Thomas Campbell/USA Today Sports)

The Protection of Women and Girls in Sports Act would require Title IX to treat gender as "recognized based solely on a person’s reproductive biology and genetics at birth" and would disallow any adjustment for it