A New Jersey Democrat running for the U.S. House said this week that she was “not worried” about biological men competing on women’s sports teams or undressing in women’s locker rooms.
Sue Altman, a former leader of the progressive Working Families Party, is running to defeat Republican incumbent Rep. Tom Kean in New Jersey’s 7th congressional district. The race is currently ranked as a toss-up.
Altman, a former professional basketball player, was asked whether she worried about the Biden administration’s radical rewrite of Title IX, the legal statute that provided equal opportunity for female athletes.
Altman admitted she would back “our trans brothers and sisters” over the female athletes she grew up competing against.
“If we decide as a society that making rules about who is and who isn’t female is more important than giving young children a chance to be on teams and compete and to be part of something bigger than themselves, especially young people who are more susceptible to suicide and bullying, then I think we’ve lost our way a little bit,” Altman said, according to the New York Post. […]
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