McCormick Defends Girls’ Sports, Confronts ‘Woke’ Education at Moms for Liberty Event
During a recent “fireside chat” with the Northhampton County chapter of Moms for Liberty, GOP U.S. Senate candidate Dave McCormick spoke as a dad about public policy issues like protecting girls-only sports and spaces in public schools.
“As the father of six daughters, this resonates with me so much. The very idea of allowing biological males to compete with biological females is fundamentally unfair.
“It guts women’s sports,” McCormick went on. While Title IX protects girls and women’s sports and education, adding biological males “is part of a broader ideological shift.”
McCormick added that, as a parent, he’s concerned about content on topics like sex and gender being introduced to children too young to process it.
“Our schools are introducing transgender ideology to young children before they are old enough to form their own views as adults. And so I think it’s deeply troubling. It’s something that I would be completely opposed to as a senator…We need to get commonsense back.”
The Republican candidate also slammed his opponent, three-term Democrat Sen. Bob Casey Jr., for a letter Casey wrote last year claiming concerns about transgender athletes competing in college and high school sports are “overgeneralized.”
Also at the event was Betsy DeVos, who served as President Donald Trump’s secretary of education.
“This is an issue very timely because the rule the Biden administration has put forward that would extend the definition of gender to include gender identity, the downstream ramifications of that you can’t begin to really articulate all the different ways in which it would negatively impact everything in our culture which already has lots of challenges,” DeVos said.
