The House is expected to pass legislation on Thursday that would ban transgender women and girls from competing in female school athletics — the latest GOP salvo in the intensifying culture wars over transgender rights in America.
The bill, authored by Rep. Greg Steube, R-Fla., would amend Title IX to bar schools that receive federal funding from allowing people “whose sex is male” to participate in sports designated for women or girls.
“Congress in 1972 created Title IX to protect women’s sports, to enable women to have an equal playing field in athletics, and in worship to their trans idols, the [Biden] administration wants to flip that on its head. It’s insane,” Steube said in a floor speech Wednesday. Rep. Greg Steube, R-Fla., at an Oversight and Reform Committee business meeting in Washington, D.C., on Jan. 29, 2019.The GOP bill will go nowhere in the Democratic-controlled Senate, and the White House has saidthe measure, which “targets people for who they are and therefore is discriminatory,” if it were to make it to his desk.
The bill “makes school sports less fair by singling out and banning transgender women and girls as young as kindergarten from participating on school sports teams with their friends,” said Rep. Mark Takano, D-Calif., a leader of the Equality Caucus, which advocates for LGBTQ rights on Capitol Hill.
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