On July 11, the Congressional Review Act passed with a party-line vote of 210-205, with 18 lawmakers abstaining. The legislation seeks to counter recent Title IX changes implemented by the Biden administration, which would require state governments, schools, and universities to ignore biological sex and accept any self-professed gender identities. In a lawsuit brought against the Department of Education over the rule change, six states say the new guidelines would “gut the very athletic opportunities that Title IX was designed to provide; destroy the privacy protections women and girls currently enjoy in restrooms, locker rooms, shower facilities, and overnight accommodations; preempt numerous State laws; silence and threaten with investigation any student, faculty member, or administrator who doesn’t share the Department’s view of sex; and deny federal funding to any school or university that doesn’t adhere to those views.” Rep. Mary Miller, the bill’s sponsor, said in a statement posted to X, “It's a great day for our daughters and granddaughters, who deserve protection from Biden’s radical attempt to force men into their private spaces & athletics.”The U.S. House of Representatives has advanced a bill aimed at protecting women’s sports.
🚨The House just passed my bill to protect girls' sports by blocking Joe Biden's radical Title IX rewrite. It's a great day for our daughters and granddaughters, who deserve protection from Biden’s radical attempt to force men into their private spaces & athletics. pic.twitter.com/SGyH3ITls4 The Independent Women’s Voice (IWV) hailed the bill’s passage as a major win that will help preserve equal opportunity for women if enacted. “Today’s congressional action is the first step in striking down the Biden administration’s illegal administrative rewrite of Title IX, which dismantled the landmark sex equality law to undermine women’s rights, free speech, and due process,” IWV said in a statement. “By interpreting Title IX’s sex-based protections to apply to ‘gender identity,’ the Biden administration’s rewrite would force schools to let males who identify as women take women’s scholarships and enter women’s spaces — including women’s locker rooms,” the organization added. The legislation comes as a growing national movement, led by female athletes, coaches, and women’s rights advocates, fight to stop the changes from taking effect in August. “The Biden administration is forcing girls to shower with men and ripping scholarships away from hard-working young women,” said IWV’s Law Center Director May Mailman. “Instead of forcing women to litigate their rights court-by-court across the nation, the House has an opportunity to stop this damaging Title IX rewrite.”
— Rep. Mary Miller (@RepMaryMiller) July 11, 2024
