Today, on the House Floor, Education and Labor Committee Republican Leader Virginia Foxx (R-NC) condemned the Left's reinterpretation of Title IX to erase women from sports.
“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.
“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 in the far Left's campaign against a 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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