Thom Tillis on Civil Rights

Urged NCAA to ban transgender athletes from women's sports

The NCAA updated its policy in 2022 on transgender athletes, aligning itself with Olympic standard. The NCAA requires transgender athletes to give documentation that meets sports standards for testosterone levels at three points in time:

1. Prior to any competition during the regular season;
2. Prior to the first competition in an NCAA championship event; and
3. Prior to any competition in the non-championship segment.

Enforce Court decision ending college affirmative action

While the Court took a big step forward in eliminating racial discrimination in admissions, more work remains to be done. In his remarks in the wake of the landmark decision, President Biden proposed "a new standard, where colleges take into account the adversity a student has overcome, including racial discrimination that individuals have faced in their own lives."

We call upon the Biden administration to embrace the Court's holdings: racial discrimination [does not] have any place in schooling. The American people deserve no less than an Executive Branch committed to enforcing the law equally to all people without concern for their race.

Reparations for black victims of a N.C. eugenics program

It was Tillis himself who first proposed the bill to protect Mueller in a conversation with Coons last summer, an important bipartisan partnership that's survived tough battles over taxes and health care.

Sen.Coons (D-DE) was struck by Tillis' fight for reparations for black victims of a North Carolina eugenics program. And Tillis was impressed that Coons was willing to fend off Democrats who wanted to pile on to the special counsel bill and turn it into a partisan attack on Trump. "He was pretty clear," Coons said, recalling how Tillis threatened to drop his support unless each new Democratic co-sponsor was matched by a Republican.

OpEd: Supported tax cuts over help for students and women

Defend the N.C. gay marriage ban

Hagan says she opposed the constitutional amendment and pointed out Tillis got it on the ballot.

Government shouldn't redefine marriage

Tillis: Strongly Agree

NC's "traditional population" stable while minorities grow

"If you take a look, you mentioned the Hispanic population--the African American population, there's a number of things that our party stands for that they embrace," Tillis said. He went on to say that Republican need to do a better job reaching out to minority voters. Tillis then said that unlike the Hispanic or black populations, which have been growing, the "traditional population of North Carolina and the United States is more or less stable."

Tillis was referring to North Carolinians who have been in the state for a few generations, according to the state lawmaker's campaign.

Constitutionally define marriage as one man and one woman

• Pass a constitutional amendment establishing marriage between a man and a woman is the only domestic legal union that North Carolina will recognize.
• Specifies that North Carolina voters will vote on this amendment during a statewide election held in 2012 with a simple majority needed to pass the amendment.
• [Constitutional Amendment enacted May 8, 2012]