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New Jersey -Democrat candidate for Governor Mikie Sherrill has not dealt with her congress voice record on bills related to transking athletes in women’s sports.
President Donald Trump called Sherrill his attitude towards the question in a truth social post on Thursday.
“Sherrill wants open borders (again!), Men who play in women’s sports, transgender for everyone and all the things that almost destroyed America,” Trump wrote.
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Representative Mikie Sherrill, a Democrat from New Jersey, during a news conference on a signal message chat used by Trump administration officials, at the US Capitol in Washington, DC, USA, Tuesday 25 March 2025 (Daniel Heuer/Bloomberg via Getty Images)
Pakinomist Digital has reached Sherrill’s campaign several times for clarification on her attitude to the question of trans athletes in women’s sports but has not received an answer.
Sherrill has been the subject of criticism on social media for her congress record on the issue. She voted against the protection of women and girls in the Sports Act twice when the bill was only proposed in 2023, and again this last February when it was reinstated.
Sherrill has also co-sponsored the Equality Act, but also co-sponsored transgender Bill of Rights, which more explicitly “guarantees certain rights for transk and non-binary people with regard to public services and accommodation.”
Sherrill is a self -proclaimed “spokesman for women’s athletics.” She previously suggested the women of the NCAA Sports Act in the US Representative House together with Rep. Maria Salazar D-FLA., And led a decision to honor Billie Jean King with Congress Gold Medal.
However, she has recently been the subject of criticism on social media for her congress record on the issue of trans athletes in women’s sports.
Former University of Pennsylvania Women’s Swimmer and Women’s Sports Activist Paula Scanlan, the first Upenn swimmer to talk about the school’s Lia Thomas Controvers in 2022, called Sherrill on X over the subject this week.
New Jersey GOP attacked Sherrill for this record directly on a campaign graphic last week.
Sherrill’s opponent, Republican Jack Ciattarelli, mentioned this question for Sherrill in a post back in July.
New Jersey is the original home state of the well-known transient trajectory and field athlete Sadie Schreiner, who previously competed for the Rochester Institute for Technology and went viral several times to place videos that shared the athlete’s first-hand experience as a biologically male trans athlete who competed against and often dominated. Schreiner is from Hillsborough, according to Athletics -Athletics Athletics.
Schreiner has brought a lawsuit against Princeton University for an alleged incident in a women’s race May 3rd. Schreiner’s trial claimed that the athlete was trying to participate in the women’s 200 -meter sprint at Larry Ellis Invitational as one of the 141 participants who were not attached to A university or club. In the case, officials claimed Schreiner told the athlete could not attend 15 minutes before the race began.
Schreiner claimed that the university violated the New Jersey law against discrimination, which designates “gender identity or expression” as a protected status.
Schreiner has since brought another lawsuit against Suny Genesco to be banned from a women’s race in March per year. More reports.
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Back in January, a New York Times/Ipsos Survey Found the vast majority of Americans, including a majority of Democrats, do not think transnry athletes should be allowed to compete in women’s sports. Of the 2,128 people who participated, 79% biological men who identify themselves as women said 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. Among 1,022 Republicans, this number was 94%.
The 81 independents that were interviewed represented the group with the most reluctance to say that transnry athletes should not be allowed to compete. Just 64% said they were against it while 26% refused to answer. Only 3% of Democrats and 1% of Republicans refused to respond.
Nearly 70% of Americans say that biological men should not have permission to compete in women’s sports, according to a Gallup voting Last year.
Further data suggests that the question affected the election in 2024.
ONE National Exit Poll Director of the Women affected for America (CWA) Legislative Action Committee found that 70% of moderate voters saw the issue of “Donald Trump’s resistance to trans -transmant boys and men playing girls and women’s sports and of transient boys and men using girls and women’s bathrooms” as important to them. And 6% said that was the most important question of all, while 44% said it was “very important.”
Meanwhile, prominent democratic figures have been bound by their party’s support for men in women’s sports, including Pete Buttigieg, Gavin Newsom and even Kamala Harris.
In her recent book “107 days” wrote Harris that she “agrees with the concerns of parents and athletes who are against letting Males competing with women.
“I agree with the concerns that parents and players expressed that we have to take into account biological factors such as muscle mass and unreasonable student athletic advantage when we decide who plays on which teams, especially in contact sports,” Harris wrote.
