[Congressional Record Volume 169, Number 66 (Thursday, April 20, 2023)]
[House]
[Pages H1897-H1898]
From the Congressional Record Online through the Government Publishing Office [www.gpo.gov]




                       TITLE IX MUST BE DEFENDED

  (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, I am glad to rise today in support of 
Congressman Steube's H.R. 734. It is amazing how contorted this 
argument has become.
  This is simply about protecting women and girls in sports. We have 
seen what has happened when we don't. We have seen in women's cage 
fighting, where you have a biological male cracking the heads of the 
women in there. It is so uncompetitive.
  Girls in college sports or women's sports when they step up to the 
starting line in track meets feel already defeated because there are 
two biological males running against them.
  Are we going to protect women and girls in sports and the rest of 
life or not?
  This legislation simply goes in the direction of allowing sports to 
be competitive once again for women and

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girls. This legislation is not about all the other things that the 
folks on the other side of the aisle are trying to turn it into.
  It is simple and it is really essential if we want to have our women 
and our girls not feel defeated right out of the chute.
  I don't know where the feminists are, but there are a lot of us men 
that feel strongly about this, supporting this, and supporting Title 
IX, and the whole concept that men and women are different. Girls and 
women deserve the same chance as everybody else.

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