GOP senator fumes over 'wacko' Democrats' lack of 'common sense' on trans sports: 'Going to get hurt'

In an interview with Fox News Digital, Sen. Tommy Tuberville, R-Ala., touted the Protection of Women in Olympic and Amateur Sports Act, which would prevent men and women being forced to compete against each other.

FIRST ON FOX: One Republican senator is taking aim across the aisle at "wacko" Democrats who he says lack "common sense" when it comes to the issue of biological men participating in women's sports.

In an interview with Fox News Digital, Sen. Tommy Tuberville, R-Ala., touted his and Florida Rep. Greg Steube's recently introduced Protection of Women in Olympic and Amateur Sports Act, which would prevent men and women being forced to compete against each other, and something he lamented was even a topic of conversation.

"Can you believe we're even talking about this? I mean, the insanity of what the Democrats are pushing on the American people," Tuberville said. "They hate gender. They hate the nuclear family. They're trying to destroy that. They're trying to make it very, very tough for women, and I don't understand it." 

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Sen. Tommy Tuberville (R-AL) walks to a vote in the Senate Chambers at the U.S. Capitol on Feb. 7, 2024 in Washington, D.C. (Anna Moneymaker/Getty Images)

As a former college football coach, Tuberville said Title IX, a federal civil rights law enacted in 1972 prohibiting sex-based discrimination, was "probably the best thing to ever come out of Washington, D.C., because of how it evened the playing field concerning sports."

However, he warned people were "going to get hurt" by mixing genders in certain sports, such as boxing, because "Democrats couldn't care less" about protecting the opportunity for