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234 House Democrats, Two Republicans Co-Sponsor Bill Forcing Schools To Let Male Athletes Compete On Girls’ Sports Teams

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Every House Democrat but one has co-sponsored a bill requiring schools to allow male athletes who identify as transgender girls to compete on female sports teams.

Democrats’ Equality Act would amend the Civil Rights Act of 1964 to make “sexual orientation and gender identity” protected characteristics under federal anti-discrimination law. Among other things, the bill would force public schools to expand female athletic teams to include biological males who identify as transgender girls.

Sarah Warbelow, director of the left-wing Human Rights Campaign, praised the bill’s impact on high school sports in written testimony submitted to a House subcommittee on Tuesday.

“Opponents of equality in athletics for transgender athletes have argued that girls who are transgender have unfair physiological advantages over cisgender girls and as a result, will dominate women’s competitive sports,” Warbelow wrote, calling it not “rooted in fact” that biologically male athletes will outperform their female counterparts.

House Judiciary Chairman Jerry Nadler, a Democrat from New York, made a similar argument during an April 2 hearing his committee held on the legislation.

“Many states have sexual orientation and gender identity nondiscrimination laws, and all of them still have women’s sports. Arguments about transgender athletes participating in sports in accordance with their gender identity having competitive advantages have not been borne out,” Nadler said in his opening statement.

In Connecticut, one of the states to which Nadler was referring, two male runners have dominated girls’ high school track. A female competitor called the male runners’ advantage “demoralizing.”

Julia Beck, the head of a self-described radical feminist organization, testified against the bill.

The Democrats’ bill would lead to a male invasion of female spaces, including on the athletic field, Beck said in her April 2 testimony. “Men will dominate female sports,” she warned.

Of the 235 Democrats in the House, 234 have co-sponsored the legislation. (That’s not counting Washington, D.C., and Puerto’s non-voting representatives, who also signed on as co-sponsors.)

Reps. John Katko of New York and Brian Fitzpatrick of Pennsylvania are the only House Republicans to co-sponsor the bill.

Illinois Rep. Dan Lipinski, the only pro-life Democrat left in the House, is also the only one in his party not co-sponsoring the Equality Act.

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  1. When Americans FEAR saying the obvious, because it could ruin their future, exclude them from schools, sports, work, expose them to frenzied campaigns of vilification and ostracism by ruthless, soulless ideological forces, when THIS is the prevailing social climate (or imperious, domineering pretender TO “Social Climate”), then we find ourselves appallingly, creepily, in a place not unlike Germany in, say, 1932. I need not elaborate, I’m sure.

    The little boy cried, “But the emperor has no clothes on!”, and finally the grown-ups admitted what was perfectly obvious all along. I don’t think it would end so well for the little boy in a world like ours, where the grown-ups shriek in lockstep chorus, “But OUR truth is, he has clothes on! Away with the hater!” It’s a big risk, little boy. Ya gotta be brave.

    The girls in Connecticut protesting their loss to biological males are brave. They are running races against BOYS who call themselves girls. So the girls are losing the races, of course. Just two-and-a-half minutes ago on the socio-historical timeline even the “mindless mob” would, in a rare moment of lucidity and common sense, have said “Well, that’s just stupid! Boys can’t call themselves girls and sweep the gold in girls’ sports!” (These girls, to their credit, are even trying to be polite about the transgender “girls’” self-identification, but we all know what it comes down to.)

    Today the mob is browbeaten and cowed, trembling in fear. The whole world, seemingly, can be camped out at your front door in five minutes, hounding and savaging you for…something you said, to assure that neither you nor anybody else ever dare say it again….

    “Yeah, he’s Jewish. So what? He’s my oldest friend!”
    Your services as professor are no longer required at this university.

    “But why are BOYS allowed to run against us? That’s not fair!”
    Your application to this university has been turned down.

    It is going to take courage and tenacity to stand up to and defeat this madness.

    Once upon a time it took courage for somebody to stand up and say, “Ya know, maybe we’re making a mistake with all these lobotomies….” I need not elaborate, I’m sure.

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