Patel defends FBI pull-up test after Hirono decries it as gender bias in Senate showdown

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'"One question I had is that you are now requiring applicants to be able to do a certain kind of pull-ups, which a lot of women cannot because of physiological differences. Are you requiring these kinds of pull-ups?" Hirono asked.

Patel didn’t budge.

"We are requiring everybody to pass the 1811 standards at BFTC. If you want to chase down a bad guy, excuse me, and put him in handcuffs, you had better be able to do a pull-up."

Hirono replied, "There are concerns about whether or not being able to do these kinds of harsh pull-ups is really required of FBI agents."

Patel interjected, "Doing one pull-up is not harsh, and there are always medical exemptions to that."'

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