Alabama State Rep. Susan DuBose is being honored as a “Champion Woman” by the Independent Women’s Forum, a Virginia-based national conservative non-profit.
DuBose (R-Hoover) made her debut to the Alabama Legislature in 2023 by protecting female collegiate athletes across the state from unfair competition through a successful legislative effort in 2023 designed to restrict women’s college athletic competitions to female athletes.
“I was thankful that Alabama had a law protecting athletes in grades K-12,” DuBose told IWF. “But we needed to extend it through the college level to protect our competitive female athletes.”
“I approached our House leadership with information provided by Alliance Defending Freedom that showed states that had passed similar legislation faced no repercussions from the NCAA. Our House Majority Leader, Scott Stadthagen, said ‘Okay, run with it. So, my very first bill right out of the chute was protecting women’s sports through the collegiate level. This is the law I cut my teeth on in the Alabama legislature, my very first bill.”
Earlier this year, DuBose introduced the ‘What is a Woman’ Act, based on the IWF and IW Law Center’s “Women’s Bill of Rights” model legislation, seeking to define sex-based terms—male, female, man, and woman—using biological definitions. Although the bill received bipartisan support in the House, it stalled in the Senate. DuBose told the IWF she is determined to reintroduce and pass the legislation in the next session.
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“Being featured among great inspirational women from around the globe who have fought for conservative beliefs, policies, and values is an honor that I will always treasure,” DuBose said of the honor. “I remain fully committed to forcing a measure of common sense and sanity into the non-sensical and radical transgender agenda because biological women must have their rights protected.”
DuBose has been touring the state with Attorney General Steve Marshall and Alliance Defending Freedom educating the public on the harm of the Biden administration’s radical rewrite of Title IX guidelines, which Marshall is currently challenging through litigation.
“We have been holding town halls discussing the outrageous overreach of the Biden administration to change the Title IX law that Congress passed in 1972, overriding 50 years of progress for women. And this ruling, this overreach—not even voted on by a single person—will devastate opportunities for women in education,” DuBose said.
Her in-depth biography on the Independent Women Forum’s website was concluded with high praise for her future as a conservative change maker: “We’re banking on Susan DuBose to represent commonsense and to be a principled voice for American women in Alabama, and the entire country.”
Austen Shipley is a staff writer for Yellowhammer News. You can follow him on X @ShipleyAusten
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