Political Quotes

“For years, the left has said to follow the science. Well, today, Republicans are following the science. We are not confused about the differences between biological men and biological women. As a woman who is pro-LGBTQ, I don't care how you dress. I don't care what pronoun you take. I don't care if you change your gender. But we ought to protect biological women and girls in their athletics and their achievements. As someone who has broken glass ceilings, I am the first woman to graduate from The Citadel, the Military College of South Carolina. We don't want biological men taking away the achievements of women who fought so hard for where they are today. It was 100 years after women's suffrage that South Carolina elected the first ever Republican woman to Congress. That is what I did in 2020. We don't want to take these achievements away from women at all. We are not confused. Having biological men in locker rooms, as a mom of a girl, and hearing Riley Gaines' story, and as someone who was molested at 14, raped at 16, the risks to our girls and to women by biological men in some of these cases and the stories that we have heard, we ought to do our damnedest to protect women and girls in sports. This is not insidious. What is insidious is allowing men in girls' locker rooms as they are changing, as they are showering. That is perverted; it is insidious; it is disgusting. We want to make sure that we are doing everything we can to protect women and girls.…”