Sen. Tuberville blasts Dawn Staley over her support for trans athletes in women's sports

Sen. Tommy Tuberville, R-Ala., appears on OutKick's ‘Hot Mic’ to talk about Dawn Staley's remarks on transgender participation in women's sports.

Sen. Tommy Tuberville, R-Ala., appeared astonished over South Carolina coach Dawn Staley’s comments about transgender athletes in women’s sports over the weekend.

Tuberville, who has pushed to bar transgender athletes from competing on the U.S. Olympic team, among other measures, appeared on OutKick’s "Hot Mic" to talk about Staley’s remarks before the Gamecocks won the national championship over the Iowa Hawkeyes.

Sen. Tommy Tuberville, R-Ala., speaks during the Senate Armed Services Committee hearing on the fiscal year 2025 defense budget in Hart building April 9, 2024.  (Tom Williams/CQ-Roll Call, Inc via Getty Images)

"If someone wants to really get out there and really challenge her on this, get ‘em a head coaching job in girls basketball and start recruiting men to play and see what she says about that," he said. "They would be totally dominated if they went and got backups from some of these college basketball teams and let them play against women.

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"I can’t even believe we’re talking about this. People have lost their minds even thinking about men playing in women’s sports. Title IX is the best thing to ever happen to this place up here. One of the few bills they have passed that’s really made a difference in the last 52 years. And it’s equalized women’s sports and really given them an opportunity to compete and earn the right to be champions in any sport.

Sen. Tommy Tuberville, R-Ala., attends the House and Senate committee markup of the National Defense Authorization Act for Fiscal Year 2024 in Dirksen Building