After losing re-election in 2024, former Montana senator Jon Tester has spoken against trans-athletes in women’s sports.
During an interview at HBO’s real -time with Bill Maher on Friday, Tester said he agreed with California’s governor Gavin Newsom’s recent comments that allowing trans athletes in women’s and girls’ sports are “deeply unreasonable.”
“In this statement, Gavin Newsom is 100% correct,” tester said. “We are talking about a very, very, very small amount of people who, by the way, should not play in women’s sports. It’s a lot of crap.”
However, tester also argued like many other Democrats that it is an excessive question.
“The truth is that it has been blown out of proportions,” Tester said. “We’re talking about it, and Congress acts after it instead of acting in the questions that affect Americans.”
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Tester raised doubts about a recent unfavorable vote of his Montana race. (Reuters)
A recent New York Times/Ipsos Survey Found that the vast majority of Americans, including a majority of Democrats, do not think transking athletes should be allowed to compete in women’s sports. Of the 2,128 people who participated, 79%said that biological men who identify themselves as women should not be allowed to participate in women’s sports.
Of the 1,025 people who identified themselves as Democrats or inclined Democrat, 67%said transkon athletes should not be allowed to compete with women.
Meanwhile a National Exit Poll Made by the affected women for America Legislative Action Committee found that 70% of moderate voters saw the issue of “Donald Trump’s resistance to trans -bright boys and men playing girls and women’s sports and by transient boys and men using girls and women’s bathrooms” as important to them.
In addition, 6% said it was the most important question of all, while 44% said it was “very important.”
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Tester lost its place for former Navy Seal Tim Sheehy back in November after serving three election periods in Montana – a state that has consistently voted for the Republican presidential candidate for decades.
Despite the fact that many democratic legislators and most of the voters have expressed opposition to trans-athletes in women’s sports over the past several months, figures like testing and Newsom have still come up with other reasons for not supporting GOP-led legislation to tackle the question.
While testing suggested that the question does not “affect Americans”, Newsom argued that legislation to tackle the question does not account for the fact that the transient population is “vulnerable.”
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“So it’s easy to call the unfairness of it,” Newsom said at his podcast this week after claiming Trans cluttering is unreasonable. “There is also a humility and a grace … These poor people are more likely to commit suicide, have anxiety and depression, and the way people speak to vulnerable societies is a question that I also have difficulty with.”
“So both things I can hold in my hand,” the governor continued. “How can we solve this problem with the kind of decency that I think you know is inherent in you, but not always expressed about the question?”
President Donald Trump signed an executive order to ban trans athletes in women’s and girls’ sports back in February, but many states, including California, have refused to comply with it.
On Monday, the Senates Democrats voted almost unanimously to block the protection of women and girls in the sports law.
The law would have helped to set a stricter precedent to keep trans athletes out of women’s and girls’ sports across the country, as many states have so far refused to comply with Trump’s executive order to tackle the problem. But not a single democratic senator voted to help pass the bill and filibusted it from reaching Trump’s desk.
