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By Brett Rowland for The Center Square
(The Center Square) – Republicans in the U.S. House of Representatives passed a bill Tuesday to ban biological male athletes from participating in women’s sports with support from a few Democrats.
The bill, known as the “Protection of Women and Girls in Sports Act,” changes Title IX to recognize a person’s sex as “based solely on a person’s reproductive biology and genetics at birth.” Title IX is the federal law that bans sex discrimination in schools that receive federal funding.
President Joe Biden’s Department of Education amended Title IX to expand the definition of sex discrimination to include gender identity. Numerous courts ruled the change unconstitutional.
If passed in the Senate, the bill would tie compliance to federal funding.
Schools that allow “a person whose sex is male to participate in an athletic program or activity that is designated for women or girls” could lose federal funding.
The bill passed 218-206-1.
U.S. Rep. Greg Steube, R-Fla., who sponsored the bill, said the measure was about fairness.
“The House has delivered on its promise to protect women’s sports,” he said. “Americans are united in our belief that men have no place in women’s sports, whether it’s breaking records, entering locker rooms, or stealing scholarship opportunities.
U.S. Rep. August Pfluger, R-Texas, chairman of the Republican Study Committee, called it a “common sense” bill.
“For over fifty years, Title IX has opened doors for millions of young women,” he said. “Now, we’re reinforcing those foundations with iron-clad protections that ensure fair competition remains truly fair.”
Most Democrats opposed the bill, dismissing it as a political stunt.
U.S. Rep. Maxwell Frost, D-Fla., called it “a disgusting bill.”
U.S. Reps. Henry Cuellar and Vicente Gonzalez, both Democrats from Texas, crossed the aisle to join Republicans in passing the bill. U.S. Rep. Don Davis, a Democrat from North Carolina, voted present.
The bill faces challenges in the Senate, where Republicans would need seven Democrats to advance the measure to a final vote.
In 2023, 3.3% of U.S. high school students identified as transgender, and 2.2% identified as questioning, according to a U.S. Centers for Disease Control and Prevention report.
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Categories: Congress, Education, National News, Sports
Within the confines of our First Amendment rights of free expression, feel free to ask people to call you whatever pronoun you like, dress however you like and identify with whatever fringe sexual element that floats your boat, but when it comes to gender-segregated sports, locker rooms/public bathrooms and prisons, the criteria for who goes where should be your chromosomes…end of discussion.
How soon until Vermont can see these acts reversed and recompensed – a snow board coach was fired for a comment suggesting that there were hormonal differences in the abilities between the sexes; basketball games were girls were injured; not only ball teams, but spelling bee teams were removed from competition events?
It’s about time, I have never seen anything so disgusting in my life, so a male knows he cannot make it against other males, so he tells everyone he’s a female so he can beat up on our female gender just to win…………… pretty pathetic
They need a major A-kicking, to get them back on course.
At the least, serious psychiatric help. Both them AND their parent/s.
Finally, after four dark years of wokeism with Joe, sanity returns to our country.
I would love to hear Balint debate her Nay vote with an Olympic team coach. What a horrible embarrassment to every Vermonter with an ounce of common sense. Tell you what Becca, how about you and I go for a round of face-slapping competition for charity?
Be sure to identify as a female first so the bout will be fair . . . LoL
So brave wanting to hit a woman. Hit me up you ever wanna try and hit a man…
I still have a hard time with the fact that you would have to pass a law to protect females from males in any sporting endeavor where size and/or strength play a part in the outcome . What happened to the “good ole days” when DEI stood for Dale Earnhardt Inc. ?
Too many normal citizens thinking “they can’t be serious”.
You can’t make this stuff up!
Can you imagine coming here in a time machine straight (no pun intended) from 1960 and reading this headline?
https://x.com/RepBeccaB/status/1879240457777291434
Our Sweet Becca Balint.
Just listen to her Rant .
Rep. Becca Balint
@RepBeccaB
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Jan 14
Banning trans kids from sports solves *none* of the problems that Americans are facing.
Let’s be real: Trans kids aren’t the reason we can’t afford groceries. Trans kids aren’t the reason young people are giving up on ever owning a home.
Corporate greed is.
Solid Bernie vibes coming out of Balint. I wonder if the tag “Little Bernie Balint” will catch on.