Tuberville Now Claims 'Entire Men's Teams' Are 'Turning Trans' To Play Against Women

Alabama Republican Senator Tommy "Coach" Tuberville appeared on Fox News Sunday to again spread unhinged misinformation about transgender athletes.

Speaking with guest host Jackie DeAngelis, Tuberville stated:

"We have entire men's teams across this country now that are turning trans. Women's teams are turning trans."

"That's gonna be a situation where it's gonna pick up speed because these woke globalists are pushing these kids."

"Globalist" is an antisemitic dog whistle.

Tuberville's speeches and media appearances frequently feature homophobia, transphobia, White supremacist, and Christian nationalist rhetoric and dog whistles.

You can see a clip of Tuberville's latest right-wing media appearance here:

Despite NCAA records from December 2024 indicating only 10 trans athletes are competing in collegiate sports, Tuberville still spreads his misinformation through any media outlet that lets him.

Tuberville stated:

"Well, it’s the priority of the Democrats, the letter salad of LGBTQ groups, you can’t let one of them down."

"The Democrats know that transgender boys [sic] and women’s sports is wrong, but they can’t abandon them because the rest of their group would probably say, if you’re not going to stand with us, we’re out of here for you, Democrats."

Tuberville added:

"We have entire men’s teams across this country now that are turning trans. Women’s teams, they’re turning trans."

"And that’s going to be a, uh, a situation where it’s going to pick up speed because these woke globalists are pushing these kids to say, if you can’t compete in men’s sports, let’s just transition and say, you’re a woman and, and, uh, participate in women’s sports."

"It is dead wrong and we gotta stand up against it."

As with all the other times Tuberville has spun his easily disproven trans panic claims, the Alabama Republican failed to provide any proof.

The former football coach has been obsessed with trans women for years. In 2021, Tuberville tried to tie pandemic relief to a trans sports ban.

In March, the Alabama Republican told Fox News:

"We're getting to a point now where women and girls sports are getting ready to be extinct."

"Because already in states across this country, we have high school teams that are made up of totally boys participating against girls."

As usual, Tuberville provided nothing to bolster his impossible claims. By the numbers, there just aren't enough trans girls and women at the youth, high school, or collegiate levels to field entire teams.

Even if every trans girl or woman in the United States participated in sports.

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DeAngelis was also criticized for neither pushing back on Tuberville's obvious lies, nor requesting proof to support his obviously false claims.

Tuberville has introduced multiple bills each year targeting trans girls and women.

None have garnered the support needed to pass, despite Republicans controlling the House, Senate, and White House.

It's unclear if Tuberville's lies are the result of paranoid delusions or a propaganda technique his fellow Republican—Texas MAGA Representative Keith Self—espouses.

"Tell a lie often enough..."