By Katrina Trinko | The Daily Signal
Not a single Democrat in the House of Representatives voted to protect women’s sports.
Talk about being on the wrong side of history.
“The Protection of Women and Girls in Sports Act,” introduced by Rep. Greg Steube, R-Fla., passed the House Thursday in a 219-203 vote. The legislation would require that “school athletics comply with the Title IX recognition of a person’s reproductive biology and genetics at birth,” according to a press release from Steube’s office.
“This bill ensures that biological females compete against other biological females in women’s sports that are operated, sponsored, or facilitated by a recipient of federal funding,” adds the press release.
Not one Republican voted against the bill.
Not one Democrat voted for it.
It’s unlikely the bill will pass the Democrat-controlled Senate. President Joe Biden has already announced he would veto the bill if it came to his desk.
This should be a bipartisan, consensus issue.
It should not be controversial that girls deserve a chance to compete in sports against their physical peers, not boys.
Across the country, girls are losing to biological males who now identify as transgender. Here at The Daily Signal we’ve been covering the issue for years. In 2019, we told the story of Selina Soule, a high school runner who “missed qualifying for the 55-meter in the New England regionals by two spots,” reported my colleague Kelsey Bolar.
Two of the athletes who did qualify for the regionals were biological males.
“It’s very frustrating and heartbreaking when us girls are at the start of the race and we already know that these athletes are going to come out and win no matter how hard you try,” Soule told The Daily Signal. “They took away the spots of deserving girls, athletes … me being included.”
How is this fair?
“The simple truth is that males outperform females in regard to speed and strength due to inborn genetics and sex hormones. This has consistently been proven by long-term research on elite athletes when matched for training,” wrote Drs. Michelle Cretella and Quentin Van Meter in an article for The Daily Signal in 2021.
“While it is true that a male using estrogen will lose muscle strength and impair other aspects of his physiology, he does not alter his genetics; he remains male at the cellular level in all body systems,” added Cretella and Van Meter.
Yet across the country, girls must lose to biological males, just because of transgender ideology.
“Congress in 1972, created Title IX to protect women’s sports, to enable women to have an equal playing field in athletics. And in worship to their trans idols, the administration wants to flip that on its head,” said Steube on the House floor Wednesday. “It’s insane. Title IX was created for women’s sports and now the left wants to kill it.”
“In them giving homage to the trans movement, they are abandoning women all across the country,” he added. “Parents do not want biological men in locker rooms with their daughters, nor do they believe its equitable that a male can compete with women in female athletics. It’s the whole purpose that Title IX was created to begin with.”
Steube is right about the locker rooms. But it’s not just parents who object. It’s also the girls themselves.
“A male was in our locker room when volleyball girls were trying to get changed,” Blake Allen, a 14-year-old, told The Daily Signal last fall. “And after I asked him to leave, he didn’t, and later looked over at girls with their shirts off. And it made many people uncomfortable and feel violated. And I left as soon as I could in a panic.”
But the left doesn’t care that girls like Blake feel violated. Her feelings are irrelevant in today’s world.
So much for this being the golden era of feminism. Once again, the patriarchy is winning—even if it’s now under the disguise of the transgender ideology.
Those people are sick in the brain. There’s no other way to explain it.
Time to eliminate the Governor’s Commission on Women. There is no need for such a place anymore in the new world order. Ban,censor and remove all feminist sponsored women equality propoganda from the web. Remove all history regarding the women’s suffrage movement. Eliminate the WBNA, NWSL, and all other designated women sports – all of them. Go all in Lefties – don’t cherry pick what is deemed equal to women – all or nothing – that is what your Master demands.
Time for a good laugh.
https://www.youtube.com/shorts/cFDYYbT9nc4
God, I hate politics.
So they hate the not yet born, they hate the children, they hate the Normal males, they hate the whities, and now they hate the Normal Women.. Leftist should all put plastic bags on their heads and tie them off, then they can stop the hate… what vulgar humans they are to have so much hate.
This is a United Nations agenda. The democratic politicians in the state obviously got the UN’s memo.
And, Becca Balint, P/L/D, bragging about how special she is to be the first woman congressional representative from Vermont–she voted how on “The Protection of Women and Girls in Sports Act” ? Just another progressive liberal democrat following the directions of the liberal agenda. So much for representing Vermonters…
You forgot “gay” in her description which is how she had the money to win the election and what she’s there for, gay, trans rights not Vermonters rights.
I guess it’s extremely difficult to penetrate the Hive mind of the progressive cult. And the say follow the science but they mean the science that been created by their clan to validate the abnormal. We have them here too.
Worthy of note: If you wish to project the side taken by the Progressives in any issue, you cannot do better than to choose the side that will generate the greatest societal disruption, the most hostility, the one that will set people against one another. It will, invariably, be the least rational approach to the solution. It’s how they choose the position they will take – and, once taken, will become their unshakable dogmatic truth.
Morality, integrity, honesty and fairness are devoid in all Liberal policies now. It’s the insanity of woke…it’s evil. I have seen many stories about young girls in high school athletics, where they are superior… many are lower incomes…and many are minorities. What they need is top placings in their competitions, to use such, to gain attention for athletic COLLEGE scholarships…for all their hard work. But when biological MALES are on these school competing teams….the top “girls” sink to far lower placings…and no longer a “winner” to college scouts, and that harms their chances for college athletic scholarships. Many might be Black girls with nothing but their talent and they see their college chances w/ scholarship money badly needed… go….pooof …..because they cannot compete, or place, successfully against a biological male and win. It is actually all very RACIST.
So the commie left hates women, and loves boys who don’t know for sure what they are.