Should Your Senator Vote to Protect Girls and Women Athletes?

Families, communities, states, and nations are stronger when girls and women are protected from injury. Apparently, Senate Democrats do not understand this principle because they voted on Monday to a block a bill that would stop biological males from participating in women’s sports. In an article published at The Daily Signal, George Caldwell shared the following thoughts.

The vote failed along party lines, with 51 Republicans in favor of ending debate and bringing it to the floor, and 43 Democrats and two nominal independents who caucus with them voting against. Two Democrats and two Republicans didn’t vote. The bill fell short of the threshold of 60 needed to end debate by nine votes.

The bill proceeded roughly along party lines as it went through Congress, as only two Democrats had voted to pass the bill in the House, introduced by Sen. Tommy Tuberville, R-Ala. It would have codified into law President Donald Trump’s Feb. 5 executive order denying federal funding to schools that allow transgender-identifying male athletes to compete against females.

The American public broadly supports such measures, as evidenced by a Jan. 19 New York Times poll, which found that 79% of respondents said biological males who identify as women should not be allowed to participate in girls and women’s sports. That includes 67% of Democrats polled.

The bill would have amended Title IX of the Education Amendments of 1972 to recognize that “sex shall be recognized based solely on a person’s reproductive biology and genetics at birth.”

The bill would have cut off federal funding to institutions that “permit a person whose sex is male to participate in an athletic program or activity that is designated for women or girls.”

According to the website SheWon.org, which tracks this issue, to date 791 female athletes have been deprived of 1,121 awards in 545 competitions across 43 different sports by transgender competitors.

With their vote, Democrats rejected 79% of Americans who say that men do not belong in women’s sports, locker rooms, or showers. Parents can stand up for their daughters and act to protect girls and women athletes by notifying their Senators and telling them to protect girls and women. By protecting girls and women athletes, we can strengthen families, communities, states, and nations.