Three Republican candidates pledged to support the PAC's goals - such as preventing trans women athletes from competing in women's sports - and collected novelty checks from the group. As athletes and as human beings, we learn from each other when we are around people who embrace who they are.”
Anyone who fights to be themselves on and off the field or court are role models of inner strength and resiliency. Trans athletes deserve to play the same as any other athlete. “Compared to cisgender athletes, trans athletes face discrimination and alienating rules that cisgender people can’t even begin to fathom. In an op-ed responding to his candidacy, Meike Babel, a former professional tennis player from Germany wrote: Tony Gorman/CPR News Colorado Republican gubernatorial candidate Heidi Ganahl (L) and Nine PAC co-chair Riley Gaines prepares for an interview at the Nine PAC fundraiser.īremer also made opposition to trans women in sports a centerpiece of an unsuccessful U.S Senate bid earlier this year. But 18 other states have enacted laws or rules to limit or ban their participation, policies that opponents argue harm trans youth who are already vulnerable to bullying and discrimination in other areas of their lives. Colorado protects trans people’s right to compete in school sports. Trans people and their allies consider terms like “biological women” inaccurate and often offensive, especially when used to exclude trans people from their gender. “Those sports should be preserved for biological women, for girls to compete for scholarships against other biological girls. “It's about saying that women under Title IX, under federal law, have and should maintain the integrity of their sports,” said Bremer. He says the goal is to donate to 100 congressional candidates before the midterm election. Nine PAC - the name is a reference to Title IX, the law which requires schools to include women in their athletic programs - is the brainchild of Eli Bremer, a former Olympic pentathlete from Colorado Springs. The PAC supports policies that many states have enacted into laws, ones that opponents argue harm trans youth.
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