Bill to keep trans athletes out of women’s sports to be heard by Congress after new rules package passes

The new Republican-controlled Congress will hear arguments on a bill that would seek to ban transgender athletes from competing in women’s sports in its first 100 days after voting yes on a new set of rules on Friday.

The 119th Congress approved the new rules package after re-election Mike Johnson as speaker of the House. A bill to address the issue of gender identity in sports has been listed as the top priority.

“A bill to amend the Education Amendments of 1972 to provide that, for the purpose of determining compliance with title IX of said Act in athletics, sex shall be recognized based solely on reproductive biology and a person’s genetics at birth,” the first point in the final. package states section.

Democrats have already introduced several bills to protect transgender inclusion in women’s and girls’ sports at the national level, including the Equality Act and the Transgender Bill of Rights. The Biden administration has taken several steps to allow transgender inclusion via executive orders, including an order on his first day in office in 2021.

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However, these efforts have stalled over the past year, as Democrats have withdrawn their support for transgender inclusion amid immense backlash in a heated election year. Biden’s Department of Education also withdrew its proposed rule that would have prohibited states from banning transgender athletes from women’s and girls’ sports in late December after it was originally proposed in April 2023 .

Now, after President-elect Trump and other prominent Republicans have promised to take action to ban transgender athletes from women’s sports before the election, there is a timetable for when that action can begin.

Rep. Greg Steube, R-Fla., celebrated Friday’s vote and will be reintroduced the bill included in the rules package, the Protection of Women and Girls in Sports Act.

“The radical left is out of step with the American people on the issue of protecting women’s sports,” Steube said in a statement released Friday..

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“Americans have spoken loudly that they do not want men stealing sports records from women, breaking into their daughters’ locker rooms, replacing female athletes on teams, and taking away their daughters’ scholarship opportunities .

“My legislation stands for truth, safety and reality: men have no place in women’s sports. Republicans have promised to protect women’s sports, and under the leadership of President Trump, we have to fulfill this promise.”

This bill ensures that biological females compete against other biological females in women’s sports that are operated or sponsored by a recipient of federal funding.

Other women’s activist groups also celebrated the 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 nation.

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Concerned Women for America (CWA) provided a statement to Fox News Digital, praising the priority of the project.

“There is no question that this should be a legislative priority in the 119th Congress. The Biden administration and company have launched a large-scale attack on the dignity of women. The leadership must act promptly to restore sensitivity to the public policy and immediately take the girls out of the children. disastrous fires of ideology,” CWA Legislative Strategist Macy Petty told Fox News Digital.

“No girl should see the most powerful politicians in the world vote to put men in their wardrobes. Not in the Land of the Free. It’s cowardice and disgusting. But it’s the reality of our political landscape. The last Congress, the House passed similar legislation on strict party lines One party voted that women deserve private spaces, one did not.

The conservative advocacy group Heritage Action for America released a statement Friday celebrating the vote.

“Today, the House also considered the package of rules for the 119th Congress that includes significant legislative priorities for Heritage Action, including the SAVE Act and the Protection of Women and Girls in Sports Act. The Congress must now begin the work to enact a bold conservative agenda. We congratulate Speaker Johnson on his re-election as Speaker of the House and look forward to working with all members of the 119th Congress to enact conservative policy victories,” the statement. he said.

A national exit poll conducted by the legislative action committee CWA found that 70% of moderate voters saw the issue of “Donald Trump’s opposition to transgender boys and men playing women’s sports and of women and boys and transgender men using women’s and women’s bathrooms” as important to them. .

And 6% said it was the most important issue of all, while 44% said it was “very important.”

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