By Free Republic | Created at 2025-01-05 19:25:30 | Updated at 2025-01-07 09:15:18
1 day ago
New GOP-led House already fast tracks bill to ban men in women’s sports
College Fix ^ | January 4, 2025 | Jennifer Kabbany
Posted on 01/05/2025 11:15:11 AM PST by george76
The new Republican-controlled 119th House of Representatives, convened Friday, has already fast tracked a bill that would ban men in women’s sports.
The bill was moved forward as part of the 119th rules package, which allowed 12 bills “on a glide path to a vote on the House floor without allowing for hearings or amendments, by limiting debate, and waiving all the other chamber rules,” GovTrack reported.
The Protection of Women and Girls in Sports Act was reintroduced Friday by U.S. Rep. Greg Steube, a Florida Republican, along with 56 Republican cosponsors.
“This legislation allows women and girls a fair playing field in competitive sports by ensuring that school athletics comply with the Title IX recognition of a person’s reproductive biology and genetics at birth,” a news release from Steube states.
A similar bill has already been introduced twice in the House during the previous two sessions, which is why it was likely allowed to be fast tracked.
The news release states:
“In the 118th Congress, the Republican Conference listed the defense of women’s sports in the Commitment to America and passed Rep. Steube’s bill in the first 100 days of the Republican Majority by a vote of 219-203, without a single Democrat voting in favor. The Senate companion, introduced by U.S. Senator Tommy Tuberville (R-Ala.) was never brought to the floor under the Democrat Senate Majority Leader, Chuck Schumer.
In the 117th Congress, Rep. Steube and former Republican Study Committee Chairman Rep. Jim Banks (R-Ind.) filed a discharge petition for The Protection of Women and Girls in Sports Act where it received 187 signatures.
The Independent Women’s Forum praise the new bill on Friday, thanking Republicans for striving to protect women on “day one of this new Congress.”
“You are sending a message to all the female athletes and their loved ones that, at long last, help is on the way. The Biden-Harris administration consistently put women’s interests last. Women and girls were told to step aside and keep quiet while their opportunities were taken by men. This travesty ends in 2025,” said Carrie Lukas, president of Independent Women’s Forum, in a news release.
TOPICS: Culture/Society; Government; News/Current Events; Politics/Elections
KEYWORDS: men; womenssports
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1 posted on 01/05/2025 11:15:11 AM PST by george76
To: george76
How about lets just keep all sports same sex. I don’t want women in mens sports either. Lets not just be biased only one way. The stupid women who do football and then get creamed, or the guys who wont wrestle a female because shes gonna get hurt plus she takes away a spot from a guy for a feminist pr stunt, come on people.
2 posted on 01/05/2025 11:18:20 AM PST by Secret Agent Man (Gone Galt; not averse to Going Bronson.)
To: george76
We need the Democrats on the record opposing the bill in both the House and Senate.
Then pin the tail on the donkeys—forever.
3 posted on 01/05/2025 11:19:46 AM PST by cgbg (It is time to pull the Deep State out of the mass media--like ticks from a dog.)
To: cgbg
4 posted on 01/05/2025 11:21:16 AM PST by george76 (Ward Churchill : Fake Indian, Fake Scholarship, and Fake Art)
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