(Luis Cornelio, Headline USA) House Republicans on Thursday passed legislation protecting women’s sports from biological males, delivering a major blow to pro-transgender Democrats, who focused instead on resurrecting the leftist Green New Deal.
The Protection of Women and Girls in Sports Act of 2023, if passed by the Senate and signed by President Joe Biden, would require schools to protect individuals from sex discrimination based on the person’s reproductive biology and birth sex. The bill would order the Department of Education to withhold funds from federal-funded schools if they were to violate Title IX by allowing transgender athletes to compete in competitions designed for the opposite sex.
House Republicans championed the bill saying the legislation would assure fairness in sports.
“This is another team effort where House Republicans are standing up for people who believe in basic fairness and today’s vote should have been a unanimous vote,” said Rep. Steve Scalise, R-La., in a press conference. “Regardless of political games people play up here when people go back home and in schools and competing, they want to compete on a level playing field. The whole intention of Title IX was to create more opportunities for women to compete in sports.”
“The Democrats have gone to great lengths to call this bill extreme,” Rep. Virginia Foxx, R-N.C., said in a speech before the bill’s passing. “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.”
The bill comes two weeks after former 12-time All-American swimmer Riley Gaines was ambushed and physically assaulted by transgender hecklers at a San Fransisco State University event in defense of women’s sports. Gaines, who has since threatened to sue the university for allowing the activists to assault her, gained notoriety after speaking up against transgender athletes and losing to Lia Thomas, a biological male.
“I feel grateful for the leadership of all the co-sponsors of this bill for standing up for women,” said Gaines in reaction to the bill’s passage in an interview with Fox News’s Harris Faulker.
🚨NEW: IW Spokeswoman @Riley_Gaines_ joins @HARRISFAULKNER on @FaulknerFocus to respond to the passage of @RepGregSteube‘s Protection of Women and Girls in Sports Act.
“I feel grateful for the leadership of all the co-sponsors of this bill for standing up for women.” WATCH: pic.twitter.com/oKGSH0ufXE
— Independent Women’s Voice (@IWV) April 20, 2023
The bill received no votes from House members of the Democrat Party, which chose instead to focus on the Green New Deal, a leftist legislation first drafted by self-proclaimed Democratic-socialist Rep. Alexandria Ocasio-Cortez, D-N.Y., and Sen. Ed Markey, D-Mass., in 2018.
“Today we reintroduced the Green New Deal in the Hous️e!” AOC tweeted championing the leftist bill. “We’re also rolling out a new tool: an implementation guide to show communities and organizers how to get federal $$ for GND investments in your community.”
We just reintroduced the Green New Deal. Check out our brand new implementation guide and see how you can get federal funding for Green New Deal investments in your community: https://t.co/oSoegvLM66 pic.twitter.com/hivsaojdnN
— Ed Markey (@SenMarkey) April 20, 2023
The Green New Deal would cost American taxpayers $92.9 trillion (about $290,000 per person in the US) if passed, according to an analysis by the American Action Forum.
President Joe Biden, who as a presential candidate said he did not support the Green New Deal, announced a whopping $1 billion of taxpayer money to assist developing countries “catalyze” climate change, according to a White House statement reviewed by Headline USA. The Biden White House is also requested $500 million for the Amazon Fund and “related activities.”
The pro-women sports House bill will now head to the Democrat-controlled Senate, where it is unlikely to pass.
Both Senate Majority Chuck Schumer, D-N.Y., and President Biden have voiced support for allowing biological males to compete in women’s sports, saying he thinks transgender students should have access to “sports, bathrooms and locker rooms in accordance with their gender identity.”
Sen. Schumer says “I agree” with Joe Biden’s plan to give transgender students in federally funded schools access to “sports, bathrooms and locker rooms in accordance with their gender identity.”
pic.twitter.com/nTZcjtzfGQ— Daily Caller (@DailyCaller) December 1, 2020
