[Congressional Record Volume 169, Number 57 (Wednesday, March 29, 2023)]
[House]
[Pages H1540-H1541]
From the Congressional Record Online through the Government Publishing Office [www.gpo.gov]




                      A SAD DAY FOR WOMEN'S SPORTS

  (Mr. LaMALFA asked and was given permission to address the House for 
1 minute and to revise and extend his remarks.)
  Mr. LaMALFA. Mr. Speaker, on Sunday, ESPN celebrated Women's History 
Month by putting out a tweet celebrating swimmer Lia Thomas. The only 
problem, Lia Thomas is not a woman.
  Lia, whose real name is William, is a man pretending to be a woman, 
ranked about 400 in men's swimming, but now about number 1 in women's.
  This individual identifying as a woman was allowed to compete in 
women's swimming for the University of Pennsylvania. Consequently, this

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person won a national title that should have gone to a female athlete.
  Instead of denouncing this farcical nonsense, ESPN decided to 
celebrate it. It is a sad day for women's sports when our Nation's 
premier sports broadcaster chooses to celebrate biological males 
competing in women's sports.
  The evidence is overwhelming that males have competitive athletic 
advantage over females. It, therefore, makes zero sense to allow men to 
compete in women's sports.
  Do you call this progress? Certainly not for women athletes.

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