Republican West Virginia Gov. Patrick Morrisey told Newsmax that keeping men and women separate in sports competition is “basic common sense.”

While West Virginia law separating men and women in sports is going to the U.S. Supreme Court for a decision, Morrisey told “Wake Up America” he has signed a new law separating men and women in sports-related facilities like locker rooms and bathrooms.

“You shouldn’t have to be in court defining men and women or ensuring that men aren’t playing sports with women, or that women don’t have their own safe places, locker rooms, domestic violence shelters. These are the basics. And that’s what we’re doing in West Virginia. We’re returning to the basics.”

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