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Speaker Kevin McCarthy celebrated the House’s passage of the Protection of Women and Girls in Sports Act on Thursday and said the vote fulfills an important election promise for Republicans.
“Today is a great day for America, for fairness, for families and especially for women athletes,” McCarthy, R-Calif., told reporters. “House Republicans pledged their commitment to America before the last election to protect women and girls in sports. Today, we kept that promise.”
The Chamber passed the Law on the Protection of Women and Girls in Sportintroduced by Rep. Greg Steube, R-Fla., by a vote of 219-203, without any Democratic support.
President Biden has vowed to veto the bill, which would prevent biological men from participating in women’s sports in schools across the country.
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Speaker Kevin McCarthy praised the House’s passage of a bill protecting women’s sports from biological males. (Tom Williams/CQ-Roll Call, Inc via Getty Images)
After the vote, McCarthy berated his Democratic colleagues for not standing up for young women.
“I believe that’s wrong,” he said. McCarthy said women and girls are “forced to compete against biological men”.
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“They watched their peers miss out on opportunities they deserved,” he said, pointing to women who “speak up for equal opportunity, for privacy, for security, for truth, for everything the previous generations of women who fought hard for Title IX .”
“They are the current champions of those women who fought for equality 50 years ago, fought for fairness in sports,” McCarthy said.
Rep. Tom Emmer said left-wing “madness” is to blame for the invasion of women’s sports by biological men. (Al Drago/Bloomberg via Getty Images)
House Majority Whip Tom Emmer, R-Minn., also celebrated the passing of the bill.
“The madness of the left is robbing women and girls of equal opportunity in the name of inclusion,” Emmer said. “That’s why House Republicans passed this bill today to protect the safety and fairness we should have in women’s sports and to ensure that no female athlete is ever forced to compete against a biological male.”
House GOP conference chair Elise Stefanik, RN.Y., also applauded Republicans for “taking a stand for fairness” and for protecting “the future of women’s sports from being diluted by the radical gender fluidity agenda.”
Rep. Elise Stefanik said the “radical gender fluidity agenda” has created unfair competition for women. (AP Photo/Alex Brandon)
“Our daughters should not be forced to compete against biological males in competitive sports,” she said, adding that the bill will help ensure that children have “a level playing field in competitive sports so that our daughters will grow up in a generation where their hard work and dedication pays off in competition.”
House Majority Leader Steve Scalise, R-La., said Title IX’s intent was “to create more opportunities for women to compete in sports, yet it undermines the structure itself.”
“To say that a biological man can just play in a woman’s sport if they want to…it just goes against common sense,” he said. “We want women to enjoy the same opportunities in sports, whether it’s at the high school level, the college level, or even the professional level.”
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Under Steube’s bill, educational institutions receiving Title IX funding from the federal government would “not be allowed to allow a person of male gender to participate in an athletic program or activity designed for women or girls.” The bill says an athlete’s sex would only be recognized by their “reproductive biology and genetics at birth.”
House Majority Leader Steve Scalise (Anna Moneymaker/Getty Images)
The bill now goes to the Democratic-controlled Senate, but the White House vowed to veto the bill this week.
“Schools, coaches and athletic clubs across the country are already working with families to develop eligibility rules that are fair and that take into account particular sports, grade levels and levels of competition. As a national ban that does not consider competitiveness or rank level, HR 734 directs targets people for who they are and is therefore discriminatory,” it said of the bill.
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The statement accused Republicans of dictating a “one-size-fits-all requirement that forces coaches to remove children from their teams,” and argued that transgender youth across the country were already facing a mental health crisis.
It claimed such a law was “unnecessary” and that it “harms families and students”.
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“If the president got HR 734, he would veto it,” it added.
Brooke Singman is a digital political reporter for Fox News. You can reach her at [email protected] or @BrookeSingman on Twitter.
