The new Republican-controlled Congress is scheduled to hear arguments on the bill that would seek this Ban transgender athletes from competing in women's sports in its first 100 days after voting yes on the new rules package on Friday.
The 119th Congress approved the new rules package after his re-election Mike Johnson As Speaker of the House of Representatives. A bill to address the issue of gender identity in sports has been listed as a top priority.
“A bill to amend the Education Amendments of 1972 would provide that for purposes of determining compliance with Title IX in athletics, sex shall be recognized on the basis of a person’s reproductive biology and heredity at birth alone,” the first bullet point in the final resolution. Section of package cases.
Democrats have previously introduced multiple bills to protect transgender inclusion in women's and girls' sports nationally, including the Equality Act and the Transgender Bill of Rights. The Biden administration has taken multiple steps to enable transgender inclusion through executive orders, including an order on his first day in office in 2021.
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However, those efforts have faltered over the past year, as Democrats backed away from support for transgender inclusion amid massive backlash in a heated election year. The Biden-era Department of Education even withdrew its proposed rule that would have prohibited states from banning transgender athletes from women's and girls' sports in late December after initially proposing it in April 2023.
Now that President-elect Trump and other prominent Republicans have pledged to take action to ban transgender athletes from women's sports before the election, there is a timeline for when that action might begin.
Rep. Greg Steube, R-Fla., celebrated Friday's vote and will reintroduce it Invoice Included in the rules package is the Women and Girls in Sports Protection Act.
“The radical left does not agree with the American people on the issue of protecting women’s sports,” Steube said in a statement issued Friday..
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“Americans have been vocal that they don't want men stealing sports records from women, entering their daughters' locker rooms, replacing female athletes on teams, and taking away their daughters' scholarship opportunities.
“My legislation represents truth, safety and reality: Men have no place in women's sports. Republicans promised to protect women's sports, and under President Trump's leadership, we will deliver on that promise.”
This bill would ensure that biological females compete against other biological females in women's sports administered or sponsored by a recipient of federal funding.
Other women's activist groups also celebrated impending legislative action on the issue after a year of multiple controversies involving transgender athletes competing and sharing locker rooms with biological women and girls across the country.
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Concerned Women for America (CWA) provided a statement to Fox News Digital, praising the bill's prioritization.
“There is no doubt that this must be a legislative priority in the 119th Congress. The Biden administration and company have launched a widespread attack on women's dignity. Leadership must act quickly to restore public policy sensitivity and immediately remove young girls from the world.” “It has awakened the disastrous fires of ideology,” Missy Beatty, a legislative strategist at CWA, told Fox News Digital.
“No little girl should see the most powerful politicians in the world voting to put men in her locker room. Not in the land of the free. It's cowardly and disgusting. But that's the reality of our political landscape.” In the last Congress, the House approved similar legislation on On strict party lines, one party voted that women deserved special spaces, but another party did not.”
The conservative advocacy group Heritage Action for America issued a statement Friday celebrating the vote.
“Today, the House also considered a rules package for the 119th Congress that includes important legislative priorities for legacy work, including the SAVE Act and the Protecting Women and Girls in Sports Act. Congress must now get to work enacting a bold conservative agenda,” the statement said. “We congratulate Speaker Johnson on his re-election as Speaker of the House and look forward to working with all 119 members of Congress to advance conservative political gains.”
A National exit poll The CWA's Legislative Action Committee found that 70% of moderate voters viewed Donald Trump's “opposition to transgender boys and men playing girls' and women's sports and transgender boys and men using girls' and women's restrooms” as important to them. .
6% said it was the most important issue of all, while 44% said it was “very important.”
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