By Ben Zeisloft
The House of Representatives passed legislation on Thursday to protect women’s sports leagues by banning male athletes who identify as females from competing.
The Protection of Women and Girls in Sports Act of 2023 would amend Title IX of the Education Amendments of 1972 such that recipients of federal financial assistance which operate sports leagues cannot “permit a person whose sex is male to participate in an athletic program or activity that is designated for women or girls.” The legislation passed with 219 affirmative votes, all of which came from Republicans, and 203 negative votes, all of which came from Democrats.
“The Democrats have gone to great lengths to call this bill extreme. The Democrats have gone to great lengths, being almost hysterical, to call this bill discriminatory,” Rep. Virginia Foxx (R-NC), the chairwoman of the House Education and Workforce Committee, said in a floor speech on Wednesday. “It’s quite telling when the other party attempts to tear things down without offering an alternative vision. Democrats refuse to posit a reason for allowing biological men to compete in women’s sports that comports with principles of athletic competition.”
Critics of allowing self-identified transgender athletes to compete in women’s sports leagues note that men have inherent physical advantages over women.
The phenomenon has dominated headlines in recent years: track athlete CeCe Telfer won an NCAA women’s national championship after competing with fellow men in the previous season, transgender swimmer Lia Thomas tied with female champion Riley Gaines and was honored by ESPN for a women’s history month segment, and MMA fighter Fallon Fox was accused of breaking multiple female opponents’ skulls after he began to compete as a woman.
Democrats nevertheless claimed that the Protection of Women and Girls in Sports Act is discriminatory in nature. Rep. Nancy Pelosi (D-CA), who previously served as Speaker of the House, said in another floor speech that she opposed the bill because “trans kids are all God’s children” and belong “in sports, in schools, in books, in families, and on teams.”
The Protection of Women and Girls in Sports Act now faces a vote in the Senate, which is narrowly controlled by Democrats. The White House issued a veto notice on Monday clarifying that President Joe Biden would oppose the legislation.
“Schools, coaches, and athletic associations around the country are already working with families to develop participation rules that are fair and that take into account particular sports, grade levels, and levels of competition,” the notice said. “At a time when transgender youth already face a nationwide mental health crisis, with half of transgender youth in a recent survey saying they have seriously considered suicide, a national law that further stigmatizes these children is completely unnecessary, hurts families and students, and would only put students at greater risk. Discrimination has no place in our nation’s schools or on our playing fields.”
This is the very same Democrat Party some Hollywood Airhead told us was Of the People By the People and For the People which proves that Hollywood Airheafs and the American people are on two very Different wave lengths
Idiot Biden wants to sniff, grope and rape women, not allow them fair competition in sports. Democrats constantly whine about “existential threats to democracy” when they either don’t know what democracy is or don’t want to be forced to practice it themselves. Women’s sports is being torn asunder to placate .002% (or a similar proportion) of the population that wants to get their bodies reconstructed and participate in women’s sports (for some strange reason, there are no women transitioning to men that want to compete in men’s sports).
Gender dysphoria IS a mental illness and it should be treated as such, not with surgery. Biological men cannot take steroids and compete. Biological women can’t take steroids and compete. But a “transgender” can be jacked up on steroids use them to blow away the competition.
I’d love to see an all male (“identifying” as female) basketball or soccer team take on a female team in an important tournament. Hell, try to slip one of these trans into the Olympics and see what the other countries have to say about it.
I can’t see a single positive aspect of this. The only result must be, like so many other Democrat agenda initiatives, to simply create strife, division, turmoil, hate and yet another category of mass shooter to ignore while guns are targeted.
On the one hand (this article) dems allege there is NO difference between male and female competitors in sports, as these men “identify” as women.
BUT, on the other hand, sporting her trademark purple hair, Congresswoman Rosa DeLauro (D-CT), praised Transportation Secretary Pete Buttigieg for spending a BILLION DOLLARS to add female dummies to crash tests because “there are vital differences between men and women!”
Pick a position, lefties.
Oh, they do. A different one for each occasion.
Biden is getting all his Imperial Decrees taken down by the Courts now you know why the Democ-Rats want to Pack the Courts with UN/Globalists
Democrats in 2012 tried to convince Americans the Republican Party had a war on women. It appears like everything else, the democrats are projecting on others what they are doing. Same old tired and worn out playbook. There is no plausible reason to vote for a democrat, ever
Why do Democrats care so much about other people’s genitals?
It’s obviously not Democrats who are obsessed. They’re only concerned about protecting their fellow citizens from the knuckle-draggers who are.
So you advocate denying women fair competition in sports. democrat men who think they are female are mentally sick
Democrats are obsessed with killing babies and turning the children that get past the abortion mill into sex toys.