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Who: Senator Tommy Tuberville (R-Alabama)

X: @SenTuberville

When: February 2025

What: Gender and sports

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Tommy Tuberville

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Republican Senator Tommy Tuberville said that California “doesn’t deserve” any funding for the devastating wildfires that have ravaged Los Angeles.

The Alabama senator, a staunch Donald Trump ally, said he didn’t object to sending the state “some money,” but not unless state leaders “change their ways.”

Tuberville joins a growing number of Republicans who have hit out at California’s political leaders for the fires, blaming them partly on “woke policies.”

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Tommy Tuberville

Physique: Average Build Height: 6' 2"

Thomas Hawley Tuberville (born September 18, 1954) is an American politician and retired college football coach who is the senior United States senator from Alabama, a seat he has held since 2021. Before entering politics, Tuberville was the head football coach at Auburn University from 1999 to 2008. He was also the head football coach at the University of Mississippi from 1995 to 1998, Texas Tech University from 2010 to 2012, and the University of Cincinnati from 2013 to 2016.

Tall, handsome, with silver hair and slight dad bod. Tuberville looks like the perfect senator for films and television.

Born and raised in Camden, Arkansas, Tuberville graduated from Harmony Grove High School in Camden in 1972. He attended Southern State College (now Southern Arkansas University), where he lettered in football as a safety for the Muleriders and played two years on the golf team. He received a B.S. in physical education from SSC in 1976. He coached football on the high school level before becoming the University of Miami's defensive coordinator in 1993. In 1994, he became head coach at the University of Mississippi.

In 1998, he became head coach at Auburn University and he received two Coach of the Year Awards in 2004 after Auburn's 13-0 season. He then coached at Texas Tech University from 2010 to 2012 and at the University of Cincinnati from 2013 to 2016. After the 2016 season, Tuberville retired as one of the top 50 most winning football coaches of all time. He joined ESPN as a full-time member of the broadcast staff.

In 2020, Tuberville ran for US Senate in Alabama as a Republican, defeating Democratic incumbent Doug Jones in a close contest in November.

Twice married, Tuberville married Suzanne (née Fette) and together they have two sons. Tuberville's interests include NASCAR, golf, football, hunting, fishing, and he enjoys country and western music.

Head Coaching Record Overall 159–99 (college) 9–10 (high school) Bowls 7–6

Accomplishments and Honors Championships 1× SEC (2004) 1× The American (2014) 5× SEC Western Division (2000–2002, 2004–2005)

Awards 1× AP Coach of the Year (2004) 1× AFCA Coach of the Year (2004) 1× Paul "Bear" Bryant Award (2004) 1× Sporting News College Football COY (2004) 1× Walter Camp Coach of the Year (2004) 2× SEC Coach of the Year (1997, 2004)

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Jessica Valenti at Abortion, Every Day:

Indiana Attorney General Todd Rokita says that abortion reports aren’t medical records, and that they should be available to the public in the same way that death certificates are. While Rokita pushes for public reports, New Hampshire lawmakers are fighting over a Republican bill to collect and publish abortion data, and U.S. Sen. Tommy Tuberville has introduced a bill that would require the Department of Veterans Affairs to collect and provide data on the abortions performed at its facilities. Just last week, Kansas Gov. Laura Kelly vetoed legislation that would have required abortion providers to ask patients invasive and detailed questions about why they were getting abortions, and provide those answers in a report to the state.   All of these moves are part of a broader strategy that weaponizes abortion data to stigmatize patients and to prosecute providers. And while most states have some kind of abortion reporting law, legislators are increasingly trying to expand the scope of the data, and use it to dismantle women’s privacy.

Rokita’s ‘advisory opinion’, for example, argues that abortion data collected by the state isn’t private medical information and that in order to prosecute abortion providers, he needs detailed reports to be public. In the past, the state has issued reports on each individual abortion. But as a result of Indiana’s ban, there are only a handful of abortions being performed in the state. As such, the Department of Health decided to release aggregate reports to protect patient confidentiality, noting that individual reports could be “reverse engineered to identify patients—especially in smaller communities.” Rokita—best known for his harassment campaign against Dr. Caitlin Bernard, the abortion provider who treated a 10-year-old rape victim—is furious over the change. He says the only way he can arrest and prosecute people is if he gets tips from third parties, presumably anti-abortion groups that scour the abortion reports for alleged wrongdoing. He wants the state to either restore public individual reports, or to allow his office to go after abortion providers without a complaint by a third party. (Meaning, he could pursue investigations against doctors and hospitals without cause.)

Most troubling, though, is his insistence that women’s private abortion information isn’t private at all. Even though individual reports could be used to identify patients, Rokita claims that the terminated pregnancy reports [TPRs] aren’t medical records, and that they “do not belong to the patient.” [...] As I flagged last month, abortion reporting is becoming more and more important to anti-choice lawmakers and groups. Project 2025 includes an entire section on abortion reporting, for example, and major anti-abortion organizations like the Charlotte Lozier Institute and Americans United for Life want to mandate more detailed reports.

[...]  As is the case with funding for crisis pregnancy centers and legislation about ‘prenatal counseling’ or ‘perinatal hospice care’, Republicans are advancing abortion reporting mandates under the guise of protecting women. And in a moment when voters are furious over abortion bans, anti-choice lawmakers and organizations very much need Americans to believe that lie. We have to make clear that state GOPs aren’t just banning abortion, but enacting any and every punitive policy that they can—especially those that strip us of our medical privacy. After all, it was less than a year ago that 19 Republican Attorneys General wanted the ability to investigate the out-of-state medical records of abortion patients. Did we really think they were going to stop there?

@jessicavalenti writes a solid column in her Abortion, Every Day blog that the GOP's agenda to erode patient privacy of those seeking abortions is a dangerous one.

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Tommy Tuberville (R-AL) United States Senator

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Tommy Tuberville

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"Abortions after birth?" Tell me more...

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Erin Reed at Erin In The Morning:

After Mike Johnson’s election as Speaker of the House, Republicans unveiled their top legislative priorities for 2025. Leading the list was a bill targeting transgender participation in sports—a measure so expansive it could impact everything from team sports to activities like dancing, darts, and even chess. On Tuesday, the House is set to take up the bill, with a Senate vote anticipated shortly thereafter. If enacted, the legislation would have immediate and far-reaching consequences: transgender individuals could be barred from participating in sports, forced to publicly out themselves, and face the erosion of legal recognition for their gender identity in broader aspects of U.S. law.

When asked about the bill’s prospects, sources familiar with the proceedings described the Senate vote as “close.” With a 60-vote threshold required, it remains unclear how many Democrats will support banning transgender participation in sports, but enough are considering doing so to bring the vote down to the wire. This vote will mark the first major direct congressional vote on transgender issues for many of the elected officials. Republicans appear poised to replicate a strategy that has driven the passage of hundreds of anti-trans laws and policies in recent years: begin with sports bans, normalize denying the legitimacy of transgender identities, and expand to restrictions in broader aspects of life.

Democrats have largely managed to sidestep taking direct, floor-wide votes on transgender issues post-election. During the passage of the National Defense Authorization Act, an anti-trans provision barring the children of U.S. service members from receiving coverage for gender-affirming care was included in the final legislation. The bill passed with the support of 81 Democratic House members and was signed into law by President Biden, marking the first national anti-transgender law enacted in the modern wave of legislative attacks on transgender rights in the United States. While the transgender provision was just one small part of a broader budgetary bill—a strategy Republicans are likely to replicate in future fights—the precedent it sets is significant. A Senate vote to strip the provision was blocked by Democratic leadership, signaling that Democrats may be on the brink of conceding on transgender issues even in the one chamber where they currently hold enough power to offer meaningful protection.

The bill, set for a hearing on Tuesday, stipulates that “sex shall be recognized based solely on a person’s reproductive biology and genetics at birth.” It prohibits transgender female participation by barring “recipients of Federal financial assistance who operate, sponsor, or facilitate athletic programs or activities” from allowing “a person whose sex is male to participate in an athletic program or activity that is designated for women or girls.” If passed, the legislation would result in the immediate outing and exclusion of transgender athletes in sports programs at schools and colleges across the United States. Moreover, it would mark the first instance in recent U.S. law where transgender individuals are explicitly defined as not legally belonging to the gender with which they identify, as recognized by their identification documents and court rulings. While the bill is expected to impact sports that have become hot-button issues for conservatives, such as swimming and volleyball, it is also poised to have far-reaching—and perhaps intended—consequences for other areas of competition. The legislation prohibits athletic associations from making case-by-case judgments for competitive fairness and instead imposes a blanket ban on transgender participation. This sweeping approach means transgender individuals could be excluded from activities such as darts, billiards, dancing, disc golf, fishing, and other sports where claims of unfair advantage are tenuous at best. Even chess—recognized as a sport by multiple universities—could fall under the bill’s scope, echoing a recent move by FIDE, the international chess organization, to bar transgender women from women’s chess competitions. Notably, each of these sports has seen targeted attacks from Republicans in recent years.

[...] There is also no sign that selectively voting in sports bans is politically effective for elected leaders who decide to do so under the false pretense that it will save their jobs. In New Hampshire, one of the states where Democrats arguably capitulated the most on transgender rights—with 16 Democrats voting in favor of or “present” on a transgender sports ban, allowing it to pass—the Democratic candidate for governor lost, and Republicans gained several seats in both the House and Senate, and they have named forced outing of trans students as their next priority. Meanwhile, in Montana, where Democrats fought back fiercely against anti-trans legislation, they gained 10 seats in the House—their largest gain in the past 30 years. With House action expected Tuesday and a Senate vote expected in coming weeks, those who wish to speak to their elected officials about the policy can call them using the address lookup tool provided by Datamade.

Dear House and Senate Democrats, don’t you even entertain thoughts of capitulation and throwing out trans folk. Bans on trans people participating in sports competitions aligned with their gender identity are just the beginning step to make other anti-trans policies palatable.

Hopefully the Senate Dems stand strong and stop cloture of this harmful bill that doesn’t do jack squat about “protecting women’s sports.”

See Also:

Outsports: Republicans push new federal ban on trans athletes as bill faces an early vote in new Congress

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When you replace a Democratic Senator for a Republican Senator, you get a massive downgrade. Tuberville is a carpetbagging Putinite. Attacking the military is a disgrace.

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Alex Bollinger at LGBTQ Nation:

Sen. Tommy Tuberville (R-AL) said that he wants transgender children to “live in fear” of their own parents in response to a bishop asking Donald Trump to have “mercy” on LGBTQ+ people. Tuberville was responding to Right Rev. Marian Budde’s plea earlier this week that Trump have empathy for LGBTQ+ people – especially children – and immigrants.

“You have felt the providential hand of a loving God. In the name of our God, I ask you to have mercy on the people in our country who are scared now,” she said at a prayer service on Tuesday. “There are gay, lesbian, and transgender children in Democratic, Republican and independent families, some who fear for their lives.” Tuberville took issue with the Christian leader’s support for all children. “These ‘trans children’ should live in fear of their parents,” Tuberville wrote on X, “and the sick people that enable those ‘guardians.’” “It’s child abuse. An absolute disgrace.” Tuberville’s comments are based on the anti-LGBTQ+ myth that no one is actually LGBTQ+, that everyone is straight and cisgender until LGBTQ+ adults turn them gay or trans. This notion is false; homosexuality and trans identity are both natural parts of human diversity.

Moreover, there is no evidence that a person who is not LGBTQ+ can be turned LGBTQ+ by their parents. Instead, it’s a common experience for trans youth to hide their identities from authority figures, including their parents and teachers, because they know they are expected to be cisgender. Trans kids who do come out to their families often face rejection, punishment, abuse, conversion therapy, and homelessness instead of finding acceptance for who they are.

Unhinged anti-trans extremist Sen. Tommy Tuberville (R-AL) posted on X earlier this week that trans kids “should live in fear of their parents”. Tuberville falsely called parents/guardians who raise trans kids facilitators of “child abuse.”

Such a tweet from him is highly dangerous and an invitation to harm trans kids, and also plays into the BS “social contagion” myth.

See Also:

AL.com: Sen. Tuberville says trans kids ‘should live in fear of their parents’ after bishop’s Trump remarks

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Tommy Tuberville (R-AL) United States Senator

Tommy has the look you expect a us senator to look like.