Republican presidential candidate Nikki Haley has declared that biological male transgender athletes have no place in female locker rooms.
Haley, the former governor of South Carolina, made the statement during the first GOP 2024 debate on Wednesday.
During the debate, Haley was asked about her previous statement that the matter of biological boys playing in girls’ sports is the “women’s rights issue of our time.”
“As a parent, the one thing you want is for your child to have a better life than you did,” Haley began.
“And we can talk about all of these things and there’s a lot of crazy woke things happening in schools, but we’ve got to get these kids reading.
“If a child can’t read by third grade, they’re four times less likely to graduate high school.
“So we need to make sure we bring in reading remediation all over this country.
“We need transparency in the classroom because parents should never have to wonder what’s being said or taught to their children in the classroom.
“Parents need to be deciding which schools their kids go to because they know best,” she continued.
“And let’s put vocational classes back into the high schools.
“Let’s teach our kids to build things again.
“When we do that and we allow that innovation, that’s when it’ll get back and, yes, I will always say I’m going to fight for girls all day long because strong girls become strong women.
“Strong women become strong leaders and biological boys don’t belong in the locker rooms of any of our girls.”
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In 2021, Haley previously spoke out against Democrat President Joe Biden’s executive order to force schools to allow transgender athletes to participate in the sport of their “gender identity.”
“Across the sporting world, the game is being rigged against women and in favor of biological men,” Haley wrote for the National Review.
“President Biden is the latest man to do the rigging, which is strange coming from someone billed as a defender of women.”
