[Congressional Record Volume 168, Number 57 (Thursday, March 31, 2022)]
[House]
[Page H4011]
From the Congressional Record Online through the Government Publishing Office [www.gpo.gov]




                         PROTECT WOMEN'S SPORTS

  The SPEAKER pro tempore. The Chair recognizes the gentlewoman from 
North Carolina (Ms. Foxx) for 5 minutes.
  Ms. FOXX. Mr. Speaker, the strides women have made across all corners 
of the sports world deserve to be celebrated, not torn to pieces by the 
far left's radical ideological agenda.
  This year officially marks the 50th anniversary of title IX, a law 
from 1972 that mandates equal opportunities for women in education.
  While this anniversary deserves to be recognized, the threat of 
President Biden's flawed interpretation of this legislation looms 
larger than ever before. This administration's radical reinterpretation 
of title IX to include sexual orientation and gender identity has 
pushed women to the sidelines.
  President Biden's decision to allow biological male athletes who 
identify as transgender to compete in women's sports is an affront to 
the progress that women have made since 1972.
  Title IX was a revolution for women's sports. Since its passage, 
title IX has spurred women's participation in sports by a considerable 
margin. Instead of rightfully celebrating these achievements, the left 
is willing to sacrifice them for the sake of its radical political 
agenda.

  Mr. Speaker, we should not be tolerating the left's assault on women. 
We must ensure that the safety and needs of young girls and women are 
made a top priority. Erasing sex and gender means, ultimately, erasing 
women, especially when it comes to sports.
  Girls and women at the top of their sport lose a fair chance to 
compete when a biological male enters the field. How is this any 
different than keeping women off the field altogether?
  We can't let women's sports become collateral damage to the far 
left's campaign against the traditional, science-based understanding of 
sex and gender. Allowing women and girls to suffer for the sake of 
being politically correct is the textbook definition of cowardice.
  I am proud of the progress our Nation has made in the past 50 years 
to uplift and affirm the rights of women. The prospect of those 
advances being lost today is gut-wrenching. If we allow these fantasies 
of the radical left to become mainstream, 50 years of progress will be 
buried completely.

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