Some Democrats in Congress balk when asked to define what a woman is. But sitting on deck is a piece of legislation that could reveal to their constituents at home how far left they really are.
Members of the House of Representatives are expected to vote this week on the Protection of Women and Girls in Sports Act. It will be the third attempt at a measure first brought forth by Rep. Greg Steube (R-Florida) in 2021.
It’s a long way from becoming law, but a floor vote on GOP-sponsored H.R. 734* would also serve the dual purpose of making Democrats go on record as opposing or supporting males who identify as females on girls’ and women’s teams across all levels of education.
In its effort to advance transgender rights, the Biden White House has proposed widening the scope of Title IX, the 50-year-old landmark legislation that exists to protect the rights of women in sports.
“Title IX was created 50 years ago to give women athletes equality. At the time, in 1972, there were only 300,000 female athletes nationwide. Right now, you have 3.2 million high school female athletes. That has done so much for women to give them equality of opportunity, and even our rights to vote are only 100 years old. This is not a time to be going back on women’s rights,” Mary Beth Waddell said on Washington Watch with Tony Perkins on Friday.
Waddell is the director of Federal Affairs for Family and Religious Liberty at the Family Research Council.
Currently 21 states ban transgender males from competing on girls’ and women’s sports teams. H.R. 734 would make the ban nationwide.
“All athletic programs have to be done via strictly biological sex. The only things it would make sure are okay is if you have co-ed teams – but you’re not allowed to give a biological male a roster spot that’s meant for a woman,” Wardell said.
The ban would not apply to co-ed teams and would apply to practice sessions “if the women want to scrimmage against the men because they know the men are better, and it’s going to improve their skills,” Wardell said.
People often think of fairness when confronted with the transgender sports discussion, but that’s the first of many layers, according to the FRC spokeswoman.
“We’ve seen over the years a number of biological males competing in what should be biological women’s sports and taking titles, taking scholarships, taking opportunities,” Waddell said.
White House: ‘Here’s how we’ll do it’
The Department of Education earlier this month published a fact sheet on its proposed changes to eligibility standards for athletic teams. The proposal stopped short of banning transgenders from girls’ and women’s sports altogether but calls for “flexibility.”
School districts would not be allowed to adopt a one-size-fits-all policy for team eligibility. In addition, schools would be required to show that allowing transgenders to compete with biological females was unfair or had the potential to cause injury.
Current state bans “fail to account for differences among students across grade and education levels. They also fail to account for different levels of competition – including no-cut teams that let all students participate – and different types of sports,” the proposal states.
As students mature physically, girls’ sports like basketball and softball become more physical and more competitive.
Language in the proposal makes it difficult for school districts to ban transgender students from female teams at the elementary school level. It becomes murky at the middle school level, stating:
“The Department expects that, under its proposed regulation, elementary school students would generally be able to participate on school sports teams consistent with their gender identity and that it would be particularly difficult for a school to justify excluding students immediately following elementary school from participating consistent with their gender identity.”
The policy concedes that fairness is an issue for older students. Even then, schools would have to address transgender eligibility issues on a case-by-case basis.
“For older students, especially at the high school and college level, the Department expects that sex-related criteria that limit participation of some transgender students may be permitted, in some cases, when they enable the school to achieve an important educational objective, such as fairness in competition, and meet the proposed regulation’s other requirements,” the proposal states.
The Left’s passion for trans movement
While the male-female difference seems obvious to many, the Left often responds to the transgender sports discussion with great passion, Waddell said.
“You’re seeing this vitriolic response that is uncalled for and shows the deception, the blindness that has been placed over people’s eyes,” she said.
Earlier this month, former Kentucky swimmer Riley Gaines (left) was forced to seek safety in a classroom after a speech at San Francisco State University. Gaines has said she intends to pursue legal action.
A 12-time All-American and five-time Southeastern Conference champion, Gaines watched the NCAA give the fifth-place trophy to transgender female William “Lia” Thomas in 2022. Technically, Gaines and Thomas tied. The different was too little to determine a winner.
“… I had the opportunity to meet [Riley Gaines] and to introduce her last year for an event on the 50th anniversary of Title IX,” Waddell shared. “She’s well-spoken, very poised, very kind. You wouldn’t think she would illicit such a reaction. She’s just telling her story and what happened to her. Even from those within the LBGT community who were part of this, I just think it shows that there really is a wound underneath that they’re trying to protect.”
* H.R. 734 currently has 93 cosponsors in the House – all of whom are Republican.
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Copyright American Family News. Reprinted with permission.
If your DNA is XY,,,you are a male,,,If your DNA is XX you are a woman. What is it about provable science that these fools do not understand? Allow the men to comeptete with the women and a lot of women are going to be hurt. Is not one of the most basic human rights of a woman is to be kept safe from harm or physical damage? Not if you life is imagained to be in La La land of Liberal Self-gods and you become the children of the lessor gods whom nature culls out by the bucketful.
Democrats see everything as subjective, how they feel things should be (not as they are) their whole world is subjective. Not Objective.
To the Democrat Party cult and their supporters, Gender, Truth, Facts, Reality and History are all irrelevant, if the Democrats do not WANT to believe them or they disagree with them. Democrats will just make up their own, Gender, Truth, Facts, Reality and History to fit what they WANT to believe or fits into the Con or Deception that they are running at the time.
The Libs then tried to have us all imagine what a day in American would be like without the Mexicans, then when the vote rolled in most people were so fed up with the illegal immigration the majority all voted to see them gone.
Yep.
One X, one Y
You are . . a guy.
Science, math etc, are racist. ERGO they don’t matter to libtards.
TILL they see CONSEQUENCES from making their ‘side known’ though, WILL IT MATTER?
This is exactly the kind of thing that needs to be done to counter the logic defying nut bags that are turning the Republic into a giant loony farm. It’s incredible how many air heads are out there that can be influenced by any off the wall trend on social media. But these idiots are “votes” for the left wing democrats and “votes” are more important to the left than the fate of the country. We need to make it as difficult on them as possible to gather BOTH normal citizens and nut bag votes.
Democrats seem to Hate Biological Women…unless they are a Democrat. And let’s see how long the Biological Women Democrats last. Coming up soon we’ll see all the Rights Women have be rescinded because Democrats can’t define “Women” so they don’t exist.
have you seen most demoncrap women?
someone’s been around them with the ugly stick.
Is it that they ARE ugly, that they become libtards? OR Does being a libtard make them ugly?
Democrats seem to have a difficult problem in defining gender and sex even though nature and science has given them very definite clues which they continue to ignore. What’s most surprising is that women of the party echo this confusion, case in point the nominee to the Supreme Court! They have detached themselves from the reality of who they are. For any of them to against the protection of of women and girls in sports is a betrayal of their sex and the subjugation to male domination, the think feminism fought against for so long!