Posted on 04/20/2023 12:47:20 PM PDT by Red Badger
The House of Representatives passed legislation on Thursday to protect women’s sports leagues by banning male athletes who identify as females from competing.
The Protection of Women and Girls in Sports Act of 2023 would amend Title IX of the Education Amendments of 1972 such that recipients of federal financial assistance which operate sports leagues cannot “permit a person whose sex is male to participate in an athletic program or activity that is designated for women or girls.” The legislation passed with 219 affirmative votes, all of which came from Republicans, and 203 negative votes, all of which came from Democrats.
“The Democrats have gone to great lengths to call this bill extreme. The Democrats have gone to great lengths, being almost hysterical, to call this bill discriminatory,” Rep. Virginia Foxx (R-NC), the chairwoman of the House Education and Workforce Committee, said in a floor speech on Wednesday. “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.”
Critics of allowing self-identified transgender athletes to compete in women’s sports leagues note that men have inherent physical advantages over women.
The phenomenon has dominated headlines in recent years: track athlete CeCe Telfer won an NCAA women’s national championship after competing with fellow men in the previous season, transgender swimmer Lia Thomas tied with female champion Riley Gaines and was honored by ESPN for a women’s history month segment, and MMA fighter Fallon Fox was accused of breaking multiple female opponents’ skulls after he began to compete as a woman.
Democrats nevertheless claimed that the Protection of Women and Girls in Sports Act is discriminatory in nature. Rep. Nancy Pelosi (D-CA), who previously served as Speaker of the House, said in another floor speech that she opposed the bill because “trans kids are all God’s children” and belong “in sports, in schools, in books, in families, and on teams.”
The Protection of Women and Girls in Sports Act now faces a vote in the Senate, which is narrowly controlled by Democrats. The White House issued a veto notice on Monday clarifying that President Joe Biden would oppose the legislation.
“Schools, coaches, and athletic associations around the country are already working with families to develop participation rules that are fair and that take into account particular sports, grade levels, and levels of competition,” the notice said. “At a time when transgender youth already face a nationwide mental health crisis, with half of transgender youth in a recent survey saying they have seriously considered suicide, a national law that further stigmatizes these children is completely unnecessary, hurts families and students, and would only put students at greater risk. Discrimination has no place in our nation’s schools or on our playing fields.”
The White House recently sparked controversy after senior officials participated in several Transgender Day of Visibility events days after a woman who identified as a man killed three children and three adults at The Covenant School, a ministry of the conservative evangelical Covenant Presbyterian Church in Nashville, Tennessee. Biden has not met with families of the victims but will host three Tennessee Democrats who were expelled or nearly expelled from the state’s General Assembly for breaking floor rules as they hosted a gun control protest.
Democrats have also opposed state-level measures to outlaw sex change procedures for minors, noting the permanent damage that surgeries and cross-sex hormones can inflict upon patients. Other bills passed by conservative-leaning states prohibit sexually explicit drag shows in public or near children.
Should be titled: “Democrats vote for men ruining women’s sports”.
Well, Democrats are afraid of offending anyone in the LGBT axis, hence, the vote we saw on the legislation.
Then Attach it to the Debt Ceiling bill
Of course they didn’t. They’re just a block of brain dead morons, you know?
Good. Women have as a group been favorable to the pleas and demands of the rainbow people from the beginning. “Don’t hurt them. They just want to exist. They just want to love who they want to love. They will leave us alone. They are harmless. They don’t want to warp our kids. They ought to get married, tHey love just like us.”
Bullcrap. This is what you get when women back this crap. Now that they feel a negative effect on supporting perversion, now they want to be protected from it. Note they aren’t also complaining about the girls pretending to be boys. Because THAT doesn’t negatively effect them. It has zero to do with any moral principle, it has to do with trophies.
No effs left to give. I want it gone but gynosociety supports it so we can’t deal with the problems. These people need effective mental treatment to feel ok in their own skins but gynosociety blocks this from occurring. The other perverts need something else done to them but we can’t do that either even though it would deal with the problem.
Let’s spin this the way CNN and other Democrats do:
So, all Democrats are misogynistic pigs and they want to replace women with depraved men.
Are there no Democrats with daughters that are athletes?
Every time a man in women’s clothing wins an event that’s one less scholarship the women will get.
A co-worker of mine is a referee after work for HS and college level sports and goes to state championships as such.
He tells me that his biggest problem isn’t the students but the parents.
He was attacked in the parking lot once by an irate mother that claimed a call he made in the game ‘ruined’ her daughter’s chances for a college scholarship!
Are there no ‘IRATE MOTHERS’ in the Democrat Party?
Will they just allow their daughters to be displaced by MEN that are mentally ill or perverted?................
Good campaign issue for the GOP in 2024. Let’s see if the Senate Dems make the same mistake.
Pelosi quoting God? I’m surprised lightning doesn’t come down and strike her.
And accosted in the locker room?
Democrats support loser men who step down in competition to win medals and scholorships.
So the Demonic Party votes against 50% of the population in favor of the 3% mentally ill pervert population, and of course there will be no repercussionsfor the Demonic POS scum, because the majority of that 50% supports their own demise. Brilliant.
Proof positive that Dhimmicrats don’t care about women.
I wonder how many will cross over in the Senate.
Democrats: 1 Maybe
Independents: 1 Maybe
Republicans: 3 Possibly
The three most visible women?
Murkowski, Collins & Graham?
Democrats today hold no individual opinion or mindset. They are a lock-step bunch of malicious lemmings desiring only to take you over the cliff in their stead.
When it comes time to actually stand up for an issue of some importance, the so-called “moderates” and “blue dogs” disappear; reps like Henry Cuellar, Spangenburg and Ro Khanna always vote the party line while throwing out a few bon mots to the slavering “press”.
I suppose none of the Democrats have daughters in sports? No nieces?
This is just crazy. How do they hang together like this? You know there must be some who hate it.
I have a friend who is a Democrat, very vociferously at times, yet her granddaughter is a lacrosse player and being sought after in her junior year of HS. I know this legislation would give her pause, and I bet you I could talk her into voting to protect her granddaughter if she isn’t there already.
Elected Democrats have once again affirmed that they are all part of a cartel that has hijacked the name of the Democrat party, and made a very abrupt left turn. The Soviet Comintern did not have this much unity of purpose.
But then, Stalin knew whom should be executed in the following purges.
We’re all women now.
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