“Senate Republicans tried and failed on Saturday to attach a measure targeting transgender athletes to the restrictive voter ID bill they are seeking to push through Congress, resurfacing an issue aimed at putting Democrats on the defensive ahead of midterm elections the GOP is at risk of losing,” the New York Times reports.
“President Trump, who has made the voter ID bill his top legislative priority, had demanded that it include two provisions related to transgender Americans, neither of which have anything to do with elections. One would bar transgender women and girls from playing in women’s and girls’ sports, and another would criminalize gender transition treatments for minors.”
“Neither of those measures, nor the voter ID bill itself, have the 60 votes necessary to move ahead in the Senate and become law.”
