US House passes Protection of Women and Girls in Sports Act
April 25, 2023
In a 219-203 party-line vote, the United States House of Representatives passed the Protection of Women and Girls in Sports Act.
The bill, sponsored by Rep. Greg Steube (R-FL), “generally prohibits school athletic programs from allowing individuals whose biological sex at birth was male to participate in programs that are for women or girls,” according to the House summary of the legislation.
The legislation has little chance of passage in the Senate, and President Joe Biden has vowed to veto it.
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Posted by: grateful1 -
Apr. 25, 2023 6:33 PM ET USA
Thanks to every House member who voted for this commonsense bill. Hopefully, the bill is clearer than the House's summary of it, which refers to those "whose biological sex AT BIRTH WAS male." For accuracy's sake, it should instead refer to those "whose biological sex IS male." Biological sex is determined at conception, not at birth, when it is simply observed to be what it always was & always will be. (That's why the expression "sex assigned at birth" is nonsensical.)
