Sen. Josh Hawley, a Missouri Republican, grilled NCAA president Charlie Baker over the college sports authority allowing transgender participation in women's sports. Baker argues that they are complying with the decisions of five federal judges over the last 18 months and asks for Congress to pass a law to clarify the issue.

“Why don’t you go to Amazon and buy a spine online and take a stand?” — Sen. John Kennedy goes after NCAA President Charlie Baker, at a Senate Judiciary hearing on legalized sports gambling, for the NCAA not banning trans women from women’s college sports pic.twitter.com/XzGerxTvHX

NCAA President Charlie Baker told a Senate panel that there are fewer than 10 transgender athletes he is aware of who currently compete in college sports, pouring cold water on an issue Republicans have said is a nationwide problem and one that is increasingly fraught territory for Democrats.

As sports betting has spread across the U.S., college athletes have increasingly faced harassment from bettors. A federal ban on wagers that concern individual performances could help, the NCAA says.