Merrick Garland Was Asked If Biological Males Should Compete In Women’s Sports. Here’s How He Responded

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President Joe Biden’s nominee for attorney general Merrick Garland avoided directly addressing whether biological males should compete in women’s sports during the first day of his confirmation hearing.

Garland discussed the much-contested issue with Republican Louisiana Sen. John Kennedy before the Senate Judiciary Committee Monday.

“I’m going to ask you if you agree with this statement,” Kennedy told the attorney general nominee. “Allowing…biological males to compete in an all-female sport deprives women of the opportunity to participate fully and fairly in sports and is fundamentally unfair to female athletes.”

“This is a very difficult societal question,” Garland told Kennedy, to which the senator responded, “I know, but you’re going to be attorney general.”

Sen. John Kennedy asks Judge Garland if he believes biological men should compete in female sports: KENNEDY: “I know but you’re going to be Attorney General.” pic.twitter.com/Rsd9ItyI6G

Garland said that he may not be the one to make “policy decisions like that” but that he is not “adverse to it.” The attorney general nominee also said that he had not had a chance to think through Kennedy’s question yet.

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Merrick Garland Was Asked If Biological Males Should Compete In Women’s Sports. Here’s How He Responded

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