{"database": "openregs", "table": "congressional_record", "rows": [["CREC-2025-01-14-pt1-PgH126", "2025-01-14", 119, 1, null, null, "PROTECTION OF WOMEN AND GIRLS IN SPORTS ACT OF 2025", "HOUSE", "HOUSE", "ALLOTHER", "H126", "H138", "[{\"name\": \"Tim Walberg\", \"role\": \"speaking\"}, {\"name\": \"Suzanne Bonamici\", \"role\": \"speaking\"}, {\"name\": \"W. Gregory Steube\", \"role\": \"speaking\"}, {\"name\": \"Mark Takano\", \"role\": \"speaking\"}, {\"name\": \"Michael A. Rulli\", \"role\": \"speaking\"}, {\"name\": \"Alma S. Adams\", \"role\": \"speaking\"}, {\"name\": \"Rick W. Allen\", \"role\": \"speaking\"}, {\"name\": \"Katherine M. Clark\", \"role\": \"speaking\"}, {\"name\": \"Burgess Owens\", \"role\": \"speaking\"}, {\"name\": \"Jerrold Nadler\", \"role\": \"speaking\"}, {\"name\": \"Mary E. Miller\", \"role\": \"speaking\"}, {\"name\": \"Yassamin Ansari\", \"role\": \"speaking\"}, {\"name\": \"Robert F. Onder, Jr.\", \"role\": \"speaking\"}, {\"name\": \"Robin L. 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Hoyle\", \"role\": \"speaking\"}, {\"name\": \"Mark Pocan\", \"role\": \"speaking\"}, {\"name\": \"Melanie A. Stansbury\", \"role\": \"speaking\"}, {\"name\": \"Maxwell Frost\", \"role\": \"speaking\"}]", "[{\"congress\": \"119\", \"type\": \"HRES\", \"number\": \"5\"}, {\"congress\": \"119\", \"type\": \"HRES\", \"number\": \"5\"}, {\"congress\": \"119\", \"type\": \"S\", \"number\": \"9\"}, {\"congress\": \"119\", \"type\": \"HR\", \"number\": \"28\"}, {\"congress\": \"119\", \"type\": \"HR\", \"number\": \"28\"}, {\"congress\": \"119\", \"type\": \"HR\", \"number\": \"28\"}]", "171 Cong. Rec. H126", "Congressional Record, Volume 171 Issue 7 (Tuesday, January 14, 2025)\n\n[Congressional Record Volume 171, Number 7 (Tuesday, January 14, 2025)]\n[House]\n[Pages H126-H138]\nFrom the Congressional Record Online through the Government Publishing Office [www.gpo.gov]\n\n PROTECTION OF WOMEN AND GIRLS IN SPORTS ACT OF 2025\n\n Mr. WALBERG. Mr. Speaker, pursuant to House Resolution 5, I call up\nthe bill (H.R. 28) to amend the Education Amendments of 1972 to provide\nthat for purposes of determining compliance with title IX of such Act\nin athletics, sex shall be recognized based solely on a person's\nreproductive biology and genetics at birth, and ask for its immediate\nconsideration in the House.\n The Clerk read the title of the bill.\n The SPEAKER pro tempore. Pursuant to House Resolution 5, the bill is\nconsidered read.\n The text of the bill is as follows:\n\n H.R. 28\n\n Be it enacted by the Senate and House of Representatives of\n the United States of America in Congress assembled,\n\n SECTION 1. SHORT TITLE.\n\n This Act may be cited as the ``Protection of Women and\n Girls in Sports Act of 2025''.\n\n SEC. 2. AMENDMENT.\n\n Section 901 of the Education Amendments of 1972 (20 U.S.C.\n 1681) is amended by adding at the end the following:\n ``(d)(1) It shall be a violation of subsection (a) for a\n recipient of Federal financial assistance who operates,\n sponsors, or facilitates athletic programs or activities to\n permit a person whose sex is male to participate in an\n athletic program or activity that is designated for women or\n girls.\n ``(2) For the purposes of this subsection, sex shall be\n recognized based solely on a person's reproductive biology\n and genetics at birth.\n ``(3) For the purposes of this subsection, the term\n `athletic programs and activities' includes, but is not\n limited to, all programs or activities that are provided\n conditional upon participation with any athletic team.\n ``(4) Nothing in this subsection shall be construed to\n prohibit a recipient from permitting males to train or\n practice with an athletic program or activity that is\n designated for women or girls so long as no female is\n deprived of a roster spot on a team or sport, opportunity to\n participate in a practice or competition, scholarship,\n admission to an educational institution, or any other benefit\n that accompanies participating in the athletic program or\n activity.\n ``(e) The Comptroller General shall carry out a study to\n determine the meaning of the phrase `any other benefit' as\n used in subsection (d)(4) by looking at benefits to women or\n girls of participating in single sex sports that would be\n lost by allowing males to participate. The study shall\n document the adverse psychological, developmental,\n participatory, and sociological results to girls of allowing\n males to compete, be members of a sports team, or\n participants in athletic programs, that are designed for\n girls, including displacement or discouragement from sports\n participation, deprivation of a roster spot on a team or\n sport, loss of the opportunity to participate in a practice\n or competition, loss of a scholarship or scholarship\n opportunities, loss or displacement of admission to an\n educational institution, deprivation of the benefit of an\n environment free of hostility based on sexual assault or\n harassment, or any other benefit that accompanies\n participating in the athletics program or activity. Further,\n the Comptroller General shall submit to the Committee on\n Education and the Workforce of the House of Representatives\n and the Committee on Health, Education, Labor, and Pensions\n of the Senate a report that contains the results of such\n study.''.\n\n The SPEAKER pro tempore. The bill shall be debatable for 1 hour,\nequally divided and controlled by the majority leader and the minority\nleader or their respective designees.\n The gentleman from Michigan (Mr. Walberg) and the gentlewoman from\nOregon (Ms. Bonamici) each will control 30 minutes.\n The Chair recognizes the gentleman from Michigan (Mr. Walberg).\n\n General Leave\n\n Mr. WALBERG. Mr. Speaker, I ask unanimous consent that all Members\nmay have 5 legislative days in which to revise and extend their remarks\nand insert extraneous material on H.R. 28.\n The SPEAKER pro tempore. Is there objection to the request of the\ngentleman from Michigan?\n There was no objection.\n\n {time} 1215\n\n Mr. WALBERG. Mr. Speaker, I yield myself such time as I may consume.\n Mr. Speaker, I rise to speak in support of H.R. 28, the Protection of\nWomen and Girls in Sports Act of 2025, authored by Representative Greg\nSteube.\n This bill is about a promise. More than 50 years ago, this country\nmade a promise to women and girls across America. That promise, Title\nIX, said women and girls would have equal opportunities, both in the\nclassroom and in athletics.\n For years, America has kept her promise. Prior to Title IX, only\n300,000 women and girls participated in high school and college sports.\nBy the 40th anniversary of Title IX's passage, the number was up to 3\nmillion, and the numbers have continued to climb and grow ever since.\n Today, female participation in sports has increased over 1,000\npercent at the high school level and over 600 percent at the college\nlevel since Title IX went into effect. Unfortunately, these wins for\nwomen and girls ushered in by the promise of Title IX have been under\nattack.\n The Biden-Harris administration pushed a radical rewrite of Title IX\nthat would eliminate policies enacted by 26 States to protect equal\nathletic opportunities for women and girls. Even with last week's court\norder striking down the regulation and the Trump administration poised\nto undo the harm caused by it, nearly half of the States have no\nprotections in place for female athletes.\n Mr. Speaker, kicking girls off sports teams to make way for\nbiological males takes opportunities away from these girls. This means\nfewer college scholarships and fewer opportunities for girls. It also\nmakes them second-class citizens in their own sports and puts their\nsafety at risk.\n The Protection of Women and Girls in Sports Act of 2025 offers a new\npromise to America's women and girls. It will strengthen Title IX's\nprotections for women, ensure a level playing field for female\nathletes, and protect the law\n\n[[Page H127]]\n\nfrom current and future radical regulatory schemes.\n Mr. Speaker, I urge my colleagues to support this bill, and I reserve\nthe balance of my time.\n Ms. BONAMICI. Mr. Speaker, I yield myself such time as I may consume.\n Mr. Speaker, I rise today in strong opposition to the so-called\nProtection of Women and Girls in Sports Act of 2025, a bill that will\nactually do the opposite and make sports more dangerous for women and\ngirls.\n In fact, this bill will empower child predators, putting students\nacross the country at increased risk. This is a one-size-fits-all bill\nthat would apply equally to every sport, from K-12 schools to colleges.\n Currently, schools, parents, and communities manage youth sports\nleagues and write rules about who can participate in different sports\nat different levels. Many State schools and athletic associations\nacross the country have allowed equal participation for transgender\nathletes for years, and it is working just fine.\n This legislation would revoke all Federal funding from schools that\ninclude transgender students on girls' and women's sports teams. This\nis damaging and discriminatory to transgender students who benefit, as\nall students do, from participating in school sports, and it is also\ndamaging to the entire school that is threatened because Federal\nfunding benefits all students.\n I remind my colleauges to keep in mind that as of last month, of the\napproximately 510,000 athletes who play at the NCAA level, 10 are\ntransgender--not 10,000, 10 out of 510,000.\n Transgender students, like all students, deserve the same opportunity\nas their peers to learn teamwork, find belonging, and grow into well-\nrounded adults through sports.\n Childhood and adolescence are important times for growth and\ndevelopment, and sports help students form healthy habits and develop\nstrong social and emotional skills. Sports provide meaningful\nopportunities for kids to feel confident in themselves and learn\nvaluable life lessons about teamwork, leadership, and communication.\nTeams provide a place for kids to make friends and build relationships.\n Yet, my colleagues across the aisle want to take these opportunities\naway from certain children. That is discriminatory, and it is wrong. My\ncolleagues are apparently so afraid of people who are different than\nthem that they have manufactured false and dangerous presumptions based\non outdated stereotypes about transgendered people, especially\ntransgender women and girls.\n Additionally, there is no way this so-called protection bill could be\nenforced without opening the door to harassment and privacy violations.\nIt opens the door to inspection, not protection, of women and girls in\nsports. Will students have to undergo exams to prove they are a girl?\n We are already seeing examples of harassment and questioning of girls\nwho may not conform to stereotypical feminine roles. Will they be\nsubject to demands for medical tests and private information? That is\nintrusive, offensive, and unacceptable, especially from a party of\nlimited government.\n I want to be very clear: There are real problems harming women and\ngirls in sports, but transgender students are not why. Today, we should\nbe working to solve the real pervasive problems in athletics that deter\nwomen and girls from participating, including sexual harassment and\nassault, lack of equal resources, and pay inequality.\n We should be working on those issues and also on the issues that\nimprove the lives of the people we represent back home, like increasing\naccess to affordable healthcare and housing, lowering costs for\neveryday Americans, and fighting the climate crisis.\n Instead, here we are again. We have seen this time and time again:\nRepublicans fearmonger about the trans community to divert attention\nfrom the fact that they have no real solutions to help everyday\nAmericans with the pressing problems they face.\n We must not discriminate against kids because of who they are.\nTransgender youth already face high hurdles. Research shows that this\ntype of discriminatory policy is associated with declines in mental\nhealth and higher suicide risk among already LGBTQI+ youth. We don't\nneed adults in Congress making things worse.\n As Republican Governor Spencer Cox from Utah said in his veto\nstatement of a similar bill: ``When in doubt, however, I always try to\nerr on the side of kindness, mercy, and compassion.'' So should we all.\n Mr. Speaker, I reserve the balance of my time.\n Mr. WALBERG. Mr. Speaker, I yield 3\\1/2\\ minutes to the gentleman\nfrom Florida (Mr. Steube), the sponsor of this legislation.\n Mr. STEUBE. Mr. Speaker, Scripture reminds us that, at the beginning\nof time, God created mankind as males and females, and He blessed them.\n All throughout humanity, we have recognized as a species that there\nare women and there are men, as God created, who are obviously\nbiologically different and, dare I say, scientifically different. Even\nscience agrees with this premise.\n Yet, our culture and civilization continue to be subjected to the\nperverse lie that there are more than two genders or that men can be\nwomen or women can be men.\n The distinction between men and women is clear and evident, and the\nerasure of this division has been promulgated by those in the radical\nleft who seek to dismantle the core foundation of our society.\n We must never let our country and the American way of life surrender\nto this immoral ideology. What a shame it is that, over the last\nseveral years, the radical left has tried to corrupt the minds of many\nAmericans with the ideology that gender is just a spectrum, that it is\nfluid, or that you can be whatever you want, whenever you want,\ndepending on how you feel. To them, it is just a social construct.\n The radical left has taken gender identity so far that many on the\nleft can't even define what a woman is for fear of retribution or\ncancelation by transgender activists. They have adopted completely\nmade-up terms, such as nonbinary, trans male, and trans female. Some\neven say there are 74 genders, everything from agender to omnigender.\nThere is even an astral gender, which is having a gender identity where\nyou feel related to outer space. How can the radical left be able to\nidentify that gender, yet they can't even define what a woman is?\n Not too long ago, progressives would say all that is ridiculous, but\ntoday, it is their religion. If you question their lies and fictitious\nterms, you are labeled a transphobic bigot and canceled.\n In giving homage to the trans movement, radical leftists have given\nway to the corruption of the minds of our Nation's youth by dismantling\nthe very protections that Congress created to ensure fairness in\neducation and athletics. In 1972, Congress created Title IX to protect\nwomen's sports and to give women their own playing field in athletics.\nIn worship of their trans idols, radical leftists want to kill Title\nIX, abandoning women across the country.\n Parents don't want biological men in locker rooms with their\ndaughters, nor do they believe it is fair that a male could compete\nwith women in female athletics. This is why Title IX protections were\nimplemented in the first place.\n Radical leftists want you to believe that this is never happening or\nthat it is so rare that we shouldn't be concerned.\n The other side just made a comment that so few of these people are\ninvolved in college athletics. The truth of the matter proves\notherwise. In my very own district, my constituent Emma Weyant, an\nincredibly talented swimmer and Olympic medalist, lost the 2022 NCAA\nwomen's swimming championship title for the 500-meter freestyle by less\nthan 2 seconds. The man who beat her formerly competed for years on the\nmen's swimming team and took home that title after identifying as a\nwoman.\n It is a sad day in our country when radical leftists are willing to\nerase the rights that women have fought decades to obtain, all to\nelevate biological males to the top of women's platforms.\n An overwhelming majority of Americans believe that men don't belong\nin women's sports and that we must allow common sense to prevail. This\nbill would deliver upon the mandate the American people gave Congress\nto restore the integrity of women's sports, just as Title IX intended.\n\n[[Page H128]]\n\n Now is our time to act. If my liberal colleagues truly believe in\nsupporting women's rights, as they often tout, they will vote in favor\nof this bill.\n Mr. Speaker, I encourage my colleagues on both sides of the aisle to\nstand for women's free and fair opportunities in athletics and to stand\nfor truth, not lies.\n Ms. BONAMICI. Mr. Speaker, as trans student and successful athlete\nRebekah said: ``I know what it is like to have my gender questioned. .\n. . It is invasive and embarrassing. I wouldn't want anyone else to\nhave to go through that,'' and, ``It is awful. Legislators are bullying\nkids.''\n Mr. Speaker, I yield 1 minute to the gentleman from California (Mr.\nTakano).\n Mr. TAKANO. Mr. Speaker, I rise in strong, unequivocal opposition to\nH.R. 28, the Republican child predator empowerment act. This bill lets\npoliticians in Washington dictate to parents, school districts, and\nathletic associations across the country who can and cannot participate\nin their local sports leagues.\n It creates a one-size-fits-all policy that holds a kindergartner\nwanting to play soccer to the same standards as an elite athlete.\n This legislation undermines the very values we hold dear as\nAmericans--fairness, opportunity, and the belief in the power of local\ncommunities to make decisions for themselves.\n Even conservative Governors in States like Indiana and Utah\nrecognized this and vetoed some of these bills.\n Just as troubling, the bill's language opens the door to invasive,\ndegrading, and humiliating physical examinations of children, children\nwho simply want to play softball or join a basketball team.\n\n Mr. Speaker, our communities thrive when every child can be part of a\nteam, learn sportsmanship, and challenge themselves. They falter when\nwe write exclusion and fear into our laws.\n Mr. Speaker, I urge my colleagues to vote ``no.''\n Mr. WALBERG. Mr. Speaker, I would call attention to the fact that, in\nthis bill, we offer no requirement for any type of invasive checks on\nwomen or men. They simply have to go to the birth certificate. That\nwill give the answer.\n Mr. Speaker, I yield 2 minutes to the gentleman from Ohio (Mr.\nRulli), a member of the Committee on Education and Workforce.\n Mr. RULLI. Mr. Speaker, I stand here today in support of H.R. 28, and\nI urge the House to pass this bill.\n There is no reason we should even be having this conversation right\nnow. H.R. 28 is a women's rights bill to protect Title IX, which was\nconstructed to protect women's rights.\n This first came on my radar while I was a member of the Ohio Senate.\nI had a lesbian couple shopping in my store, and they asked me to step\naside to talk to me for a minute. They said that I needed to protect\nwomen's sports. We had Title IX. Since we had Stonewall 50 years ago,\nthis couple told me, they have worked their entire life for women's\nrights.\n What my opposition party is doing is blurring the lines of what is a\nwoman and what is a man.\n My daughter has played soccer her entire life. She is scared to death\nto play right now. She has seen the videos of what trans athletes have\nbeen doing to women athletes, as far as breaking their faces in\nvolleyball, basketball, and baseball.\n We do not have a clear, level playing field when we have the trans\ncommunity participating in women's sports. We need to protect the\nconcept of the woman, and women must be protected.\n H.R. 28 is the only path forward. It is shameful that the opposition\nparty does not support the protection of women.\n We have to define what a woman is again, and H.R. 28 is the only\nvehicle that could actually protect women in America, whether it is in\nhigh school or whether it is in college, for them to pursue their\ndreams.\n Ms. BONAMICI. Mr. Speaker, just a reminder that this bill applies to\nevery student of every age in every sport the same way. As Flynn, a\nsuccessful trans athlete, said: ``The next time you see a story about\ntrans athletes, think of the children behind the story who are just\ntrying to play a game with their peers.''\n Mr. Speaker, I yield 1 minute to the gentlewoman from North Carolina\n(Ms. Adams).\n Ms. ADAMS. Mr. Speaker, I rise because this bill threatens the\nprinciples that make our schools and sports fields places of\nopportunity.\n This bill does not protect anyone. It unjustly targets transgender\nwomen and girls under the guise of fairness, but exclusion is not\nfairness, Mr. Speaker. Fairness is ensuring that every athlete can\nparticipate, grow, and thrive.\n For this reason, at the appropriate time, I will offer a motion to\nrecommit this bill back to the committee. If the House rules permitted,\nI would have offered the motion with an important amendment to this\nbill.\n Mr. Speaker, Title IX was originally passed to address the structural\nimbalances between men's and women's sports, disparities that continue\nto pose an actual threat to women and girls in sports today.\n My amendment, based on my Fair Play for Women Act, would strengthen\nTitle IX enforcement and protect all women by increasing\naccountability, transparency, and training in athletic programs.\n Mr. Speaker, I ask unanimous consent to include in the record the\ntext of the amendment immediately prior to the vote on the motion to\nrecommit.\n The SPEAKER pro tempore. Is there objection to the request of the\ngentlewoman from North Carolina?\n There was no objection.\n\n {time} 1230\n\n Ms. ADAMS. Mr. Speaker, I hope my colleagues will join me in voting\nfor the motion to recommit.\n Mr. WALBERG. Mr. Speaker, I yield 2 minutes to the gentleman from\nGeorgia (Mr. Allen) who also chairs the Education and Workforce\nSubcommittee on Health, Employment, Labor, and Pensions.\n Mr. ALLEN. Mr. Speaker, I thank the chairman for yielding the time.\n Mr. Speaker, I rise in strong support of the Protecting Women and\nGirls in Sports Act, a commonsense bill to ensure female athletes only\ncompete with biological females.\n Unfortunately, in just 4 years under the Biden administration, Title\nIX has been under constant attack, jeopardizing women's safety,\nathletic opportunities, and chances for success.\n My colleagues on the other side of the aisle have followed suit. Last\nCongress, not one single Democrat voted in support of this bill on the\nHouse floor.\n I hear about this issue consistently in my district and am often told\nby parents to put an end to this nonsense.\n How many of history's most prolific female athletes would never have\nreached such heights if they were forced to compete against biological\nmales? When will Democrats learn that the American people fundamentally\nreject their radical agenda?\n A Gallup poll recently said 70 percent of the American people believe\nwe should protect women's sports. I am a proud father to 3 daughters\nand a grandfather to 10 granddaughters, all of whom have competed or\nare currently competing in the sport of their choice.\n This bill is about protecting every female's pathway to athletic\nprowess, excellence, and opportunity.\n I thank Representative Steube for his leadership on this issue. As a\ncosponsor of today's bill, I strongly urge a ``yes'' vote.\n Ms. BONAMICI. Mr. Speaker, I yield 1\\1/2\\ minutes to the gentlewoman\nfrom Massachusetts (Ms. Clark), the Democrat whip.\n Ms. CLARK of Massachusetts. Mr. Speaker, every single parent worries\nabout their kids' safety. Every parent wants their daughters to be\ntreated fairly including on the sports field.\n That conversation is being had among parents, schools, experts, and\nsports authorities across the country, as it should be. This bill\nhijacks those conversations. It hijacks the real concerns that parents\nhave raised. It exploits those concerns to place all of our daughters\nin danger.\n This bill doesn't protect a girl's rights. It eliminates them. It\nrequires her to answer an adult's humiliating questions. It will\naccelerate our national crisis of sexual assault on young women and\ngirls. It puts a target on the back of every girl, every young woman\nwho chooses to play sports,\n\n[[Page H129]]\n\nfrom T-ball to competitive collegiate athletes.\n Whatever the problem is we are trying to solve, the genital\ninspection of little girls is the wrong answer. I urge my colleagues to\nreject this bill and say ``no'' on empowering predators.\n Mr. WALBERG. Mr. Speaker, I am shocked at that description of this\nlegislation and would ask where in the world that information is found\nin this bill. There is no requirement for inspections, and there is no\nnecessary effort other than going to a person's birth certificate.\n Mr. Speaker, I yield 2 minutes to the gentleman from Utah (Mr.\nOwens), one who knows about true competition and an equal nature and a\njust nature as well, as he wears a Super Bowl ring. He is also the vice\nchair of the Education and Workforce Committee and chair of the\nSubcommittee on Higher Education and Workforce Development.\n Mr. OWENS. Mr. Speaker, I rise in support of the Protection of Women\nand Girls in Sports Act.\n Fifty years ago, Title IX revolutionized women's sports and opened\ndoors that had been closed for all previous generations. Because of\nTitle IX, women's participation in athletics skyrocketed by over 1,000\npercent in high schools and 600 percent in college athletics.\n This progress of equal opportunity for millions of girls and women\nfor scholarships, honors, careers, and wealth has been under attack for\nthe entirety of the Biden administration.\n By ignoring the biological, physical, and genetic differences between\nmen and women, this administration has dismantled the level playing\nfield that women and girls deserve.\n This is about fairness, safety, and opportunity. When viewed through\nthe eyes of common sense, it is obvious. When seen through the results\nof lost opportunities, it becomes clear that something valuable has\nbeen stolen.\n When men are allowed to compete in women's sports, not only are women\nno longer safe but they also lose scholarships, championships, and\nopportunities to build self-esteem that lasts a lifetime. Young men\nalso lose when they embrace this ideology of unfairness and call it\nadmirable. It is called loss of shame.\n I have 5 daughters and 12 granddaughters. I have stood on the\nsidelines and watched them pour their hearts and souls into the sports\nthey love. I have seen their grit, determination, and pride as they\nworked hard, hoping to be victorious. Even when they are not, these\nmoments of competing add to the lifelong building blocks of character.\n\n What message are we sending to our girls when we tell them their hard\nwork doesn't matter? What is our message as we cowardly stand by as\nboys and men steal their opportunities, dominate their sports, and\nerase their records?\n This debate isn't about sports. It is about what kind of country we\nare going to be. Do we remain a Nation that stands with fairness,\ncelebrates achievement, and defends the rights of our girls and women,\nor do we devolve into a country that bows to radical ideologies at\ntheir expense?\n An overwhelming majority of Americans have boldly spoken on the\nvision of our society. We see it as one in which we continue to teach\nour young men respect.\n The SPEAKER pro tempore. The time of the gentleman has expired.\n Mr. WALBERG. Mr. Speaker, I yield an additional 15 seconds to the\ngentleman from Utah.\n Mr. OWENS. Mr. Speaker, the only respect they earn is the respect to\ndefend and honor womanhood.\n Our daughters and women are watching. The message to men standing\nquietly on the sidelines of this issue is: It is time to man up. These\nare girls and women in our lives who depend on us to stand and fight\nfor what is right. Now is the time to protect them from men who want to\ninfringe on their space and their sports.\n To my colleagues on both sides of the aisle, please join us as we\nsupport the Protection of Women and Girls in Sports Act.\n Ms. BONAMICI. Mr. Speaker, in light of the comment that the gentleman\nfrom Michigan, who is managing the time on the other side of the aisle,\nmade about birth certificates, I want to remind my colleagues that in\nthe discussion on a similar bill, we had a conversation about how out\nof the millions of birth certificates in this country, there are a\nconsiderable number of children who are born either intersex or with\nambiguous genitalia.\n How does the gentleman plan to enforce this bill? Because he is\nsaying birth certificates but those aren't necessarily reliable.\n Mr. Speaker, I yield to the gentleman from Michigan (Mr. Walberg) for\nthe purpose of a colloquy.\n Mr. WALBERG. Certainly. That bill doesn't deal with this at all. It\ndeals with men in sports.\n Ms. BONAMICI. Mr. Speaker, reclaiming my time.\n Mr. Speaker, I yield 1 minute to the gentleman from New York (Mr.\nNadler).\n Mr. NADLER. Mr. Speaker, I rise to oppose this hateful bill. This\nbill is a cruel attack on transgender children, already among the most\nvulnerable in our society, facing high risks of suicide, violence, and\nbullying.\n Let's be clear. This bill isn't about fairness. The NCAA stated last\nmonth there are fewer than 10 transgender athletes in collegiate sports\nout of 510,000, less than 0.002 of 1 percent of athletes. The rare\ncases Republicans cite are outliers, not evidence of a systemic issue.\n To deal with this 0.002 of 1 percent, the bill opens the door to\ninvasive scrutiny of all girls' bodies, violating their privacy and\ndignity. Little girls will be forced to have their biological sex\nverified through humiliating physical examinations of their genitals by\nstrangers and forced to present documentation about their anatomy.\n In States with similar bans, even cisgender girls deemed not feminine\nenough have faced harassment, humiliation, and have been forced to\nundergo genital examination. This isn't fairness. It is cruelty.\n Mr. Speaker, I urge my colleagues to reject this hateful bill and\nfocus on real issues affecting our schools and communities.\n Mr. WALBERG. Mr. Speaker, I yield 1 minute to the gentlewoman from\nIllinois (Mrs. Miller), a member of the Education and Workforce\nCommittee and a strong leader in protecting womanhood, girls, and Title\nIX.\n Mrs. MILLER of Illinois. Mr. Speaker, I rise today in defense of\nwomen. I rise in support of the Protection of Women and Girls in Sports\nAct which safeguards our daughters from the radical Democrats' agenda\nto have our daughters and granddaughters compete against and share\nlocker rooms with men.\n Allowing grown men to compete in women's sports puts the safety of\nour daughters at risk. We have already seen numerous examples of female\nathletes being injured by grown men who claim to be women.\n The physical advantages possessed by male athletes are undeniable.\nAllowing men to compete alongside women undermines the integrity of\nwomen's sports and diminishes the hard work, dedication, and dreams of\nfemale athletes.\n This bill ensures that individuals participate in sports according to\ntheir biological sex and keeps men out of our daughters' locker rooms\nand showers. By passing this bill, we honor the legacy of Title IX and\nprotect the future of women's athletics.\n The SPEAKER pro tempore. The time of the gentlewoman has expired.\n Mr. WALBERG. Mr. Speaker, I yield an additional 5 seconds to the\ngentlewoman from Illinois.\n Mrs. MILLER of Illinois. Mr. Speaker, we are sending a clear message\nto the radical Democrats we will no longer tolerate our daughters being\ntaken advantage of.\n Ms. BONAMICI. Mr. Speaker, I yield 1 minute to the gentlewoman from\nArizona (Ms. Ansari).\n Ms. ANSARI. Mr. Speaker, I rise today to oppose the GOP child\npredator empowerment act. This bill is an egregious attack on young\nwomen and girls.\n Everyone in this room knows that this legislation has the power to\nthreaten the physical and mental safety of minors. Schools and athletic\ninstitutions already have rules around fairness and safety in\nchildren's sports. This is literally why we have the NCAA. This bill is\ntextbook government overreach meant to fuel division.\n Further, this bill provides no enforcement guidelines, insinuating\nthat Republicans are just fine with subjecting\n\n[[Page H130]]\n\nyoung women and girls to invasive, humiliating medical examinations and\nphysical inspections.\n\n This is an attack on the mental and sexual safety of all girls in\nthis country as young as kindergarten. Everyone deserves to have the\nopportunity to learn the camaraderie and life lessons that come with\nplaying sports.\n I urge a strong ``no'' on this legislation because I believe we\nshould make our children safer, not empower adult strangers to\ninvestigate their most private physicality.\n Congress needs to get back to our jobs, lowering costs for everyday\nfamilies and working on issues that address the vast majority of us.\n Mr. WALBERG. Mr. Speaker, I yield 2 minutes to the gentleman from\nMissouri (Mr. Onder), a new member of the Education and Workforce\nCommittee.\n Mr. ONDER. Mr. Speaker, I rise in support of H.R. 28 and urge the\nHouse to pass this important bill.\n For the past 50 years, Title IX has been an unqualified success at\nincreasing participation of girls and young women in sports at both the\ncollegiate and secondary level.\n For 2 years, by allowing men identifying as women to dominate many\nevents in women's sports, the Biden administration has perversely used\nTitle IX to destroy the very gains that Title IX has fostered for young\nwomen.\n The issue is one of fundamental fairness. Males have a greater lung\ncapacity, larger heart, more bone density, and dramatically more muscle\nmass than girls, all of which lead to an enormous competitive advantage\nin many sports.\n Champion Olympic sprinter Allyson Felix's lifetime best time in the\n400 meter was 49.26 seconds. In 2017 alone, 15,000 young men, high\nschool men and boys, outperformed that time. Swimmer Will Thomas, a/k/a\nLia Thomas, ranked 462nd in his sport as a man, only to steal the NCAA\n500-meter freestyle championship as a purported woman.\n To accept men in women's sports is to destroy women's sports. Being a\nmale or female is a biological reality that cannot be changed by a few\nmonths of hormones or by clothes or by radical gender ideology. The\nfuture of our young women and girls and the gains they have made\nthrough 50 years of Title IX must be protected.\n Mr. Speaker, I urge my colleagues to support this important bill.\n\n {time} 1245\n\n Ms. BONAMICI. Mr. Speaker, may I inquire as to the time remaining on\nboth sides.\n The SPEAKER pro tempore. The gentlewoman from Oregon has 18 minutes\nremaining. The gentleman from Michigan has 15 minutes remaining.\n Ms. BONAMICI. Mr. Speaker, I yield 1 minute to the gentlewoman from\nIllinois (Ms. Kelly).\n Ms. KELLY of Illinois. Mr. Speaker, every child should be afforded\nthe opportunity to learn the essential lessons of sportsmanship,\nresilience, and discipline that playing team sports offers. This\nincludes transgender children who make up a very small number of young\nathletes.\n A transgender child who joins a sports team does so for the same\nreason that any other child does. They want to stay active, feed their\nhunger for competition, and form friendships with children their age.\nThis typical experience, however, has been stifled by politicians who\nwant to exercise authority on transgender students by prohibiting them\nfrom participating on sports teams with their peers.\n This bill distracts us from what really matters to our constituents.\nI thought my colleagues would join me in wanting to continue delivering\nfor people back home by expanding healthcare initiatives, improving\neconomic opportunities, and fostering public safety. Instead, an attack\nhas been launched on a community of marginalized people.\n Mr. Speaker, I urge my colleagues to oppose this bill.\n Mr. WALBERG. Mr. Speaker, I yield 2 minutes to the gentleman from\nNorth Carolina (Mr. Harris), an incoming member of the Education and\nWorkforce Committee.\n Mr. HARRIS of North Carolina. Mr. Speaker, in 2022 North Carolina\nhigh schooler Peyton McNabb was seriously injured when a teenage boy\nspiked a ball into her head during a girls volleyball game, leaving her\nwith a concussion and permanent injuries.\n Despite stories like Peyton's, the left continues to want us to\nbelieve it is totally safe for men to compete against women. In fact,\nthe current administration tried to impose this radical agenda across\nour Nation.\n The truth is, President Biden's attempt to redefine the word ``sex''\nin Title IX robs our daughters of opportunity and leaves them\nvulnerable.\n Thankfully, the Biden administration's perverted rule was invalidated\nat the national level by a Federal court just this past week.\n However, I stand today because Congress needs to make it clear that\nTitle IX cannot and will not be weaponized to perpetuate a lie that men\ncan become women.\n This bill simply affirms common sense and reflects reality. Men and\nwomen are uniquely created by God, and no amount of testosterone\ntherapy can reverse biological design.\n On behalf of the women and girls I represent in North Carolina and\nthose across America, I will vote ``yes'' for the Protection of Women\nand Girls in Sports Act and fight to restore sanity. I urge all of my\ncolleagues to do the same.\n Ms. BONAMICI. Mr. Speaker, just another reminder that this bill is a\nblanket ban that treats every age student in every sport the same.\n I yield 1 minute to the gentleman from Illinois (Mr. Quigley).\n Mr. QUIGLEY. Mr. Speaker, this bill is a cynical scapegoating of a\nvulnerable population. To make matters worse, it is a hateful attack on\nkids. Trans kids deserve to play sports just like their peers, and\nCongress can't bar them from the field.\n All young people should be able to benefit from team sports--building\ncharacter, developing friendships, and improving their mental health.\n Organizations like the NCAA, International Olympic Committee, and\nState athletic boards have included trans athletes for years. Instead\nof following their lead, my colleagues want to codify hate and\ndiscrimination against all trans kids in all sports.\n Not so long ago, all women were banned from school sports until the\npassage of Title IX. Even then, extremists preached that women playing\nsports was the end of sports as we know it.\n Today's rhetoric about trans women and girls is no different and will\nsoon be seen as just as outdated and absurd.\n Every child should be able to join a team that is consistent with\ntheir gender and benefit from sports.\n Mr. WALBERG. Mr. Speaker, I yield 2 minutes to the gentleman from\nIndiana (Mr. Messmer), who is an incoming member of the Education and\nWorkforce Committee.\n Mr. MESSMER. Mr. Speaker, I thank Chairman Walberg for yielding the\ntime, and I thank Congressman Steube for introducing this important\nlegislation.\n Mr. Speaker, I rise in support of the Protecting Women and Girls in\nSports Act and would like to clarify a comment from the gentleman on\nthe other side of the aisle that as majority leader of the Indiana\nSenate, we easily overrode the Governor's veto of our State law\nprotecting women in sports.\n Since the passage of Title IX in 1972, female participation at the\nhigh school and collegiate level has risen dramatically.\n Competitive sports are very important to the students and families in\nIndiana's Eighth District and all athletes around this great country.\n The Biden administration's recent attempt to rewrite and reimagine\nTitle IX is threatening to erase more than 50 years of progress and\nwomen's rights and equal opportunities for all female athletes.\n It is a simple fact of life that men and women are biologically\ndifferent and that men and boys have levels of strength that women and\ngirls do not have.\n Allowing men to compete in women's sports is unfair to the women and\ngirls, and it takes away their chances to receive scholarships and be\nrecognized and rewarded for their hard work, skills, and\naccomplishments.\n Over the last couple of years, we have all watched in disbelief as\ntop female athletes are losing their hard-earned titles to biological\nmales who are competing as females.\n\n[[Page H131]]\n\n Americans are also horrified to learn about the injuries women and\ngirls are facing when in competition with a biological male.\n As a father and a grandfather, I am entirely against forcing\nanybody's daughter or granddaughter to have to share a women's locker\nroom with anyone other than women and girls.\n The results of the November election have made it clear that\nAmericans agree with me and my colleagues.\n It is time for a change back to the way things were intended to be.\nTitle IX was created to protect equality and opportunity for women and\ngirls in sports. Thanks to this legislation, we will go back to doing\njust that.\n Ms. BONAMICI. Mr. Speaker, I yield 2 minutes to the gentlewoman from\nNew York (Ms. Ocasio-Cortez).\n Ms. OCASIO-CORTEZ. Mr. Speaker, here we are today. Republicans, who\nhave voted consistently against the Violence Against Women Act, who\nhave taken away the rights of all women to choose and have control over\ntheir own body, who as women are bleeding out in parking lots across\nthe country, standing there allowing us to die, now want to pretend\ntoday that they care about women.\n Why? To open up gender, and, yes, genital examinations into little\ngirls in this country in the so-called name of attacking trans girls.\nTo that, today, what we have to say are two words: Not today.\n The majority right now says there is no place in this bill that says\nit opens up for genital examinations. Well, here is the thing: There is\nno enforcement mechanism in this bill. When there is no enforcement\nmechanism, you open the door to every enforcement mechanism.\n Trans girls are girls, and for all the folks that are so concerned,\nthank you for your concern about women for the first time that I have\nseen. I don't know about you all, I don't know who has been to gym\nclass lately, but even if you only believe in two genders, I have\nplayed coed sports all the time.\n What this also opens the door for is for women to try to perform a\nvery specific kind of femininity for the very kind of men who are\ndrafting this bill and to open up questioning of who is a woman because\nof how we look, how we present ourselves, and, yes, what we choose to\ndo with our bodies.\n I know who loves this bill. Yes, bigoted folks love this bill.\nAssaulters love this bill. Also, CEOs love this bill, because Los\nAngeles is on fire right now, and this is the number one priority that\nthe majority has.\n Mr. WALBERG. Mr. Speaker, I yield 1\\1/2\\ minutes to the gentleman\nfrom Georgia (Mr. Carter), the chair of the House Energy and Commerce\nEnergy Subcommittee.\n Mr. CARTER of Georgia. Mr. Speaker, I rise today in strong support of\nthe Protection of Women and Girls in Sports Act, which ensures fairness\nand safety in girls athletics.\n For the past 4 years, the Biden-Harris administration and\ncongressional Democrats have made it very clear: They want men\ncompeting against our daughters and granddaughters. They want to force\nschools to allow biological males to share private spaces with\nbiological females and compete in women's sports. That is wrong.\n In fact, the vast majority of Americans agree that men do not belong\nin women's sports or in women's locker rooms.\n Ask working-class Americans if Michael Phelps should have swum the\nwomen's 200-meter freestyle. The answer is no.\n That is why we must protect women's sports, and under President-elect\nTrump's leadership we are already fulfilling that promise.\n This week, the House of Representatives will stand with all young\nwomen and girls who deserve to have the opportunity to compete safely\nand fairly.\n As a grandfather to six wonderful, capable granddaughters, this is\nimportant to me. This bill will safeguard and uphold the integrity and\nsafety of women's sports and the true intention of Title IX, allowing\nall women the opportunity to achieve excellence in sports.\n I commend Representative Steube for working on this issue, and I urge\nmy colleagues to join me in supporting the Protection of Women and\nGirls in Sports Act.\n Ms. BONAMICI. Mr. Speaker, may I inquire as to the time remaining.\n The SPEAKER pro tempore. The gentlewoman from Oregon has 14 minutes\nremaining. The gentleman from Michigan has 10 minutes remaining.\n Ms. BONAMICI. Mr. Speaker, I yield 1 minute to the gentleman from\nOhio (Mr. Landsman).\n Mr. LANDSMAN. Mr. Speaker, I hate bullies. This bill is about\nbullying children. Children struggle with identity, gender, and\notherwise. As a parent of two and a former teacher, I need all adults,\nincluding politicians and lawmakers, to help my wife and I protect our\nchildren, to support them, to give them a sense of purpose and\nbelonging.\n This bill does the opposite. You are just picking on children.\n Our government is not supposed to be this intrusive. Your government\nhas become incredibly intrusive. You are in our doctors' offices\nbanning reproductive freedom. You are in our classrooms banning books\nand telling teachers what they can and cannot say. Now you are in my\ndaughter's locker room requiring physical exams of children.\n It is so profoundly disgusting and inappropriate and un-American. We\nhave an economy to fix, a border crisis to address, a budget to\nbalance. My request to my colleagues is to focus. Stop bullying\nchildren.\n The SPEAKER pro tempore. Members are reminded to direct their\ncomments to the Chair.\n Mr. WALBERG. Mr. Speaker, I yield 1\\1/2\\ minutes to the gentlewoman\nfrom Wyoming (Ms. Hageman).\n Ms. HAGEMAN. Mr. Speaker, I rise in support of H.R. 28 to prohibit\nfederally funded schools from allowing men to compete in women's\nsports.\n Mr. Speaker, I find it truly staggering that we as Congress have to\neven consider such an issue, but here we are.\n Under the last 4 years of the outgoing administration, we have\nwitnessed the imposition of a radical gender ideology that has\ndisregarded the most fundamentals of biological principles with an\nexpectation that Americans must redefine their perception and beliefs,\nno questions asked.\n We have stood by and watched as this administration and career D.C.\nbureaucrats have sought to twist and manipulate the meaning and purpose\nbehind Title IX, which, if successful, would have disenfranchised the\nvery women and girls that Title IX was meant to protect.\n Despite Title IX, for over half a century since its inception, having\npaved the way for millions of women and girls, including myself, to\nachieve their dreams, its very existence has been consistently under\nthreat on behalf of an unaccountable Federal bureaucracy.\n It is past time that we as a government restore the sanity that has\nbeen lost over the last 4 years, and it brings me great pride to\nwitness this critical issue at the forefront of the new Congress so\nthat we may truly act upon the American people's mandate.\n As a cosponsor of this bill, I thank Representative Steube along with\nthe Education and Workforce Committee for their committed leadership on\nthis issue, and I urge all my colleagues to support H.R. 28.\n\n {time} 1300\n\n Ms. BONAMICI. Mr. Speaker, I yield 1 minute to the gentlewoman from\nCalifornia (Ms. Jacobs).\n Ms. JACOBS. Mr. Speaker, it is honestly hard to know where even to\nstart with this bill.\n Maybe let's start with the name. This bill doesn't even come close to\nprotecting women and girls in sports. In fact, it puts all women and\ngirls in danger of sexual abuse.\n I hear my colleagues say, no, this wouldn't require genital exams.\nLet me tell you, Mr. Speaker, we have already seen an investigation\nlike this happen at a high school in Utah. Unsurprisingly, they wrongly\ntargeted someone who wasn't trans.\n If this bill is passed into law, then there are only a few ways to\nactually enforce it, and that is genital inspections and asking young\ngirls very inappropriate questions about their menstrual cycles.\n My colleagues know that I am 35 years old, and I love talking about\nmy period. I think it is important we talk about it. We shouldn't be\nmaking young girls answer these questions to people they don't even\ntrust.\n If this bill is passed into law, then these kinds of secret\ninvestigations,\n\n[[Page H132]]\n\nshady questions, and surveillance of kids could happen all across this\ncountry.\n This does not protect women and girls. This only further jeopardizes\ntheir safety and security when they are playing sports. This bill is\nsloppy, vague, and prejudiced.\n Mr. WALBERG. Mr. Speaker, I yield 1\\1/2\\ minutes to the gentleman\nfrom Texas (Mr. Pfluger).\n Mr. PFLUGER. Mr. Speaker, I rise today in full support of H.R. 28,\nthe Protection of Women and Girls in Sports Act.\n Female athletes should never be forced to compete against biological\nmen in sports, plain and simple. Allowing biological men to compete in\nfemale sports is not only a complete and utter failure to women who\nhave trained their whole lives to achieve their dreams, but it also\ncompletely ignores the scientific fact that men and women have clear\nbiological differences that make competing on the same sports team\nunfair and dangerous.\n Mr. Speaker, last year, the Biden administration tried to push a\nradical Title IX change that would have prevented any institution\nreceiving Federal funding from banning biological men from competing in\nwomen's sports. That is insane.\n Educational institutions have a responsibility to protect the women\nand girls who attend them, and this legislation ensures that they will\nbe able to do just that.\n Let me be clear: Allowing biological men to compete in women's sports\nhurts women. It takes away opportunities, scholarship funds, and titles\nthat are meant for women.\n As a father of three girls, this is personal to me. I want my girls\nto be able to succeed in the sports that they play. I want them to be\nsafe. I want that to be a level playing field. What we are talking\nabout here is protecting women, protecting my three girls.\n The Protection of Women and Girls in Sports Act will prevent schools\nfrom allowing biological men to compete in women's sports by defining\nsex in an athletic competition by genetics at birth.\n Mr. Speaker, I thank the gentlemen from Florida (Mr. Steube), my good\nfriend, for leading this effort, and I urge all of my colleagues to\nvote ``yes.''\n Ms. BONAMICI. Mr. Speaker, I yield 1 minute to the gentlewoman from\nOregon (Ms. Salinas).\n Ms. SALINAS. Mr. Speaker, I rise today in strong opposition to H.R.\n28.\n As a mother to a former child athlete, I get the need to keep our\ndaughters safe and ensure our school sports are fair. Sadly, there is\nnothing in this bill to improve the safety of our daughters or improve\nfair play. In fact, the bill subjects girls, cisgender and transgender\ngirls, to harm and ridicule, and it strips fairness from players,\nparents, and school communities.\n The bill sets up an unfair playing field where any parent can raise a\nconcern that a transgender girl might be playing on a girls' team, and\nwe know this is so very rare.\n It is unfair to the girls who may be targeted because they grow\nfaster, play harder, or simply may be more talented than their\nteammates.\n This bill is unfair to the school districts that can't navigate the\nthreats of lawsuits but also can't afford to lose Federal funding,\nleaving students without sports or school meals.\n This bill is unfair to the girl athletes who could be subject to\ngenital inspection and subject to humiliation, leaving them with a\nlegacy of trauma rather than the lessons of teamwork and sportsmanship.\n Finally, this bill is unfair to the American people, who are\ndemanding that we take their call to address the cost of living\nseriously.\n Mr. Speaker, I urge my colleagues to leave these decisions in the\nhands of parents and local sports authorities and vote ``no'' on H.R.\n28.\n Mr. WALBERG. Mr. Speaker, I yield 1 minute to the gentleman from\nCalifornia (Mr. LaMalfa).\n Mr. LaMALFA. Mr. Speaker, I have to do a reset here and say: Why are\nwe in here even having to discuss this?\n It is amazing to me that the idea that we would have XY chromosome\nmales competing and taking the place of women and girls in sports is\njust mind-blowing.\n Where are we at in the country, where are we as a society, that we\nare doing this? It is beyond comprehension that we are doing this to\nour girls.\n Where are the feminists? Where are the people who have fought so hard\nto get rights for women but now they fade into the background over this\ntransgender situation that we are advancing way too much in this\ncountry?\n The young ladies depicted here, Paula, Lily, and Riley, whom I know\npersonally, shouldn't even have to be in this position here. I commend\nthem for being such strong leaders, coming from being athletes trying\nto do their thing, just trying to compete for medals, scholarships, and\nthings, and having those taken away. They have stepped forward to be\nleaders when they didn't ask to. They probably were not even that\ncomfortable with the spotlight. Certainly, they have been subject to\nabuse in doing so.\n\n God blessed them with their leadership in stepping forward. We need\nto back them up by passing this legislation and put this to an end.\n Ms. BONAMICI. Mr. Speaker, I yield 1 minute to the gentlewoman from\nOregon (Ms. Dexter).\n Ms. DEXTER. Mr. Speaker, as a working-class kid who grew up in\nsports, the mother of two college athletes, and a physician, I\nunderstand how important sports are to our kids' development and their\nsense of community.\n No child in this country should be denied access to the opportunity\nto play a sport, including our transgender children.\n I will vote against the GOP child predator empowerment act because it\ndoes not protect women. It attacks children.\n Under this bill, kids as young as 4 years old could be forced to\nundergo invasive medical exams and answer personal questions about\ntheir bodies from adults they don't know or trust.\n This legislation distorts commonsense conversations about how to\nensure fairness in our athletic competitions and instead denies our\nchildren their basic rights and safety.\n In Congress, I will continue to stand up against attacks on our\ntransgender community because every child in Oregon deserves our\nsupport and care.\n Mr. WALBERG. Mr. Speaker, I yield 2 minutes to the gentleman from\nMissouri (Mr. Alford).\n Mr. ALFORD. Mr. Speaker, I rise today in strong and unwavering\nsupport for protecting women, protecting women's sports, and passing\nH.R. 28, the Protection of Women and Girls in Sports Act.\n The Biden administration fought to tear down the decades of progress\nwomen have made in athletics. Women have been stripped of their earned\ntitles and live in fear for their safety in the locker rooms of\nAmerica, women like Riley Gaines, Lily Mullens, Paula Scanlan, and so\nmany others with unspoken stories.\n Last week, the Federal court ruled in favor of reality. Biden tried\nto rewrite Title IX, and his unconstitutional idea was rejected. Let's\nvote in favor of reality today.\n The Protection of Women and Girls in Sports Act clarifies the\nprotections under Title IX and ensures our women can continue to\ncompete in fair and secure environments. It is an insult and utter\ndisgrace to have them robbed of the triumph by a biological male.\n We are told that if this bill passed, President Biden would veto it.\nMr. Speaker, on November 5, the American people vetoed the radical\nleft's progressive agenda. Next week, America will return to common\nsense.\n I pray that my colleagues on the other side of the aisle remember\ncommon sense today in this very Chamber. It is not complex, Mr.\nSpeaker. God intricately created two genders for one reason.\n Men have no business competing in women's sports or being in their\nlocker rooms.\n Ms. BONAMICI. Mr. Speaker, I yield 1 minute to the gentlewoman from\nWashington (Ms. Randall).\n Ms. RANDALL. Mr. Speaker, I rise today as a queer woman, once the\nonly girl on my peewee football team, and a graduate from a women's\ncollege in strong opposition to H.R. 28.\n This bill makes schools less safe for women and girls. It gives every\nteacher, coach, and parent an opportunity to police who looks feminine\nenough to play. It will put all girls at risk of intrusive questions\nand physical genital\n\n[[Page H133]]\n\nexaminations, dissuading girls' participation in sports.\n As LGBTQ+ youth continue to face attacks and targeting from extremist\nlawmakers in legislative chambers across the country and higher rates\nof depression and suicide, this bill is doubly dangerous.\n In my community, I meet young people and parents over and over who\nhave fled States like Idaho, Texas, and Florida because they want to\nlive in safe, welcoming communities where they know they have a future.\n While there are real problems impacting women's sports, including\nsexual violence, lack of equal resources, and pay inequality, this bill\ndoes nothing to address them.\n Mr. Speaker, I urge all of my colleagues to focus on addressing the\npressing issues facing everyday Americans and to reject this hateful\nlegislation.\n Mr. WALBERG. Mr. Speaker, I reserve the balance of my time.\n Ms. BONAMICI. Mr. Speaker, I yield 1 minute to the gentlewoman from\nVermont (Ms. Balint).\n Ms. BALINT. Mr. Speaker, I rise in fierce opposition to this bill.\n Trans Americans are not the problem. This obsession with monitoring\nkids' genitals is absolutely the problem.\n Let's be clear. This is about kids--my kids, your kids, all kids,\neven elementary school kids playing basketball.\n I am a mom of two teens. I am a former teacher. I know what kids are\ngoing through in school. They are already self-conscious about their\nbodies. They just want to be on the soccer field with their friends.\nThey certainly do not want to be humiliated by Members of Congress.\n Let's talk about what enforcement looks like because, Mr. Speaker,\nyou don't want to talk about it. We know there is only one logical\nconclusion to this. This is interrogation of young girls about their\nbodies. This is asking people to show them what is underneath their\nunderwear. That is what we are talking about. This is the logical\nconclusion for this bill.\n It is vile, and it is twisted. They don't want to talk about the\ndetails. It is an absolute invasion of children's privacy. Far from\nprotecting anyone, it puts our children at risk.\n Mr. Speaker, actually, I urge colleagues on both sides of the aisle\nto reject this government overreach.\n Mr. WALBERG. Mr. Speaker, I reserve the balance of my time.\n Ms. BONAMICI. Mr. Speaker, may I please inquire as to the time\nremaining.\n\n The SPEAKER pro tempore (Mr. Moore of North Carolina). The\ngentlewoman from Oregon has 8 minutes remaining.\n Ms. BONAMICI. Mr. Speaker, I yield 1 minute to the gentlewoman from\nOregon (Ms. Hoyle).\n Ms. HOYLE of Oregon. Mr. Speaker, this bill is a clear example of\ngovernment overreach.\n What business does the government have micromanaging how any sporting\nassociation runs their league? Having a congressional vote to dictate\nthe terms of participation in a private sporting league is a slippery\nslope. What is next, voting on what uniforms the Ducks should wear each\nSaturday or, more sinisterly, who can participate based on race,\nreligion, or national origin?\n Government has a role, and this isn't it.\n How do my colleagues propose to enforce this bill? Ohio passed the\nSave Women's Sports Act, where a girl would have to verify her gender\nby an exam of her external and internal anatomy.\n Traumatizing girls who happen to be late in physically maturing or\nnaturally have a more athletic build to satisfy extreme political\nagendas is fear-mongering, cowardice, and downright creepy.\n Who will be doing these inspections? We do not need Taliban-like\nenforcers in our schools.\n Every day, women are injured and murdered in domestic violence and\nchildren are murdered in their classrooms. If you want to protect women\nand girls, let's work on that. Until then, let's be honest about what\nthis is: political propaganda that has nothing to do with lowering\ncosts for working Americans.\n Mr. WALBERG. Mr. Speaker, I continue to hear the talk about invasion\nof privacy of young kids. It is just not true. On the other hand, let\nme explain to my colleagues what is invasive.\n Last year, Riley Gaines, the former University of Kentucky swimmer,\ntestified in front of Georgia's State legislature. In addressing\nGeorgia Tech's president, she said: ``We did not give our consent to be\nexploited and exposed to a 6-foot-4 fully naked man. Because you did\nnothing, that man walked into the women's locker room at your\nuniversity and saw me undress down to full nudity. You allowed college\nwomen to be traumatized . . . on your campus in this way. Why didn't\nyou protect us?''\n I ask the same to my Democratic colleagues, Mr. Speaker. Why aren't\nthey willing to protect the women and girls from this invasion of their\nprivacy?\n Mr. Speaker, I reserve the balance of my time.\n\n {time} 1315\n\n Ms. BONAMICI. Mr. Speaker, I yield 1 minute to the gentleman from\nWisconsin (Mr. Pocan).\n Mr. POCAN. Mr. Speaker, this is the third week that we are in the\n119th Congress and the third week that no bill is before us to lower\ncosts for Americans.\n Instead, before us is a political attempt to divide us as a nation,\nstigmatizing some kids so some adults can get MAGA merit badges.\n The Republican Governor of Utah vetoed a similar piece of legislation\nafter he shared that, of the 75,000 students in high school sports in\nUtah, only 4 were trans, and only 1 was a girl playing sports. He also\nmentioned the very real 86 percent of trans kids reporting suicidality\ndue to things like adults stigmatizing kids for political gain.\n Instead, today, the proposed solution in search of an actual problem\nsuggests we somehow ban girls from sports with some sort of process to\ndetermine who is a girl. Does this mean hiring potential predators to\npeek at the private parts of kids in locker rooms? That sounds like an\nactual problem to me.\n Creating a solution to a nonexistent problem by creating a problem\ninstead of lowering costs for Americans is a sign of an ineffective\ncongressional majority, at best.\n Mr. Speaker, I urge a ``no'' vote.\n Mr. WALBERG. Mr. Speaker, I reserve the balance of my time.\n Ms. BONAMICI. Mr. Speaker, I yield 1 minute to the gentlewoman from\nNew Mexico (Ms. Stansbury).\n Ms. STANSBURY. Mr. Speaker, what I would like to know is, what does\nthis bill have to do with lowering costs, the economy, or making our\ncommunities safer?\n The answer is nothing.\n We are 2 weeks into the 119th Congress, and the GOP is already\nwasting our time on political messaging bills. This bill is not about\nprotecting women or children. It is the opposite.\n It is about government overreach, telling parents their kids can't\nplay T-ball or run track and telling our athletic associations that\nthey can't regulate sports.\n It is about bullying trans kids, who are amongst the most vulnerable\nin our communities, and subjecting our children to potentially\ndangerous situations in their schools. We won't stand for it. It has to\nstop.\n H.R. 28 is an assault on the safety of the trans community and our\nchildren. It puts hate and division over unity, and it undermines\nequality in this country. It has to stop.\n Mr. Speaker, that is why I oppose this bill, and I urge my colleagues\nto vote against it.\n Mr. WALBERG. Mr. Speaker, I reserve the balance of my time.\n Ms. BONAMICI. Mr. Speaker, may I inquire as to how much time I have\nremaining.\n The SPEAKER pro tempore. The gentlewoman from Oregon has 5 minutes\nremaining.\n Ms. BONAMICI. Mr. Speaker, I yield 1\\1/2\\ minutes to the gentleman\nfrom Florida (Mr. Frost).\n Mr. FROST. Mr. Speaker, never did I think that my first debate of\nthis new Congress would be debating a Republican bill that empowers\npedophiles and predators. Republicans say it is about protecting women,\nbut that is a damned lie.\n This bill puts all girls, all children, at risk in our school systems\nand across this entire country.\n We have a bill like this in my State of Florida, and I will tell this\nquick\n\n[[Page H134]]\n\nstory of a high school student, who was student government president of\nher entire school. Now she is forced to take classes online after\nauthorities published a 500-page report where they forced her\nclassmates to share whether or not they have seen her naked in the\nlocker room and seen her genitalia.\n Strangers, adult men, could ask girls as young as 4 years old\npersonal questions about their body. My question is, Republicans say it\nis about protecting girls, for people listening at home: Is it\nprotecting girls to empower strangers to question your daughter about\nwhat is in their pants? No. It is disgusting.\n Is it protecting girls to empower adult men to ask your daughter to\ninspect what is in her pants while you are not around? No. That is\npedophilia. It is predatory behavior.\n The hate on the other side of the aisle for trans Americans is so\nmuch so that they are willing to put all of our children, all of our\ndaughters, at risk of a serious problem in this country.\n Mr. Speaker, to protect our kids, we have to vote ``no'' on the\nRepublican child predator empowerment act.\n Mr. WALBERG. Mr. Speaker, may I inquire as to how much time I have\nremaining.\n The SPEAKER pro tempore. The gentleman from Michigan has 3\\1/2\\\nminutes remaining.\n Mr. WALBERG. Mr. Speaker, I reserve the balance of my time.\n Ms. BONAMICI. Mr. Speaker, I include in the Record a letter led by\nthe National Women's Law Center and the Women's Sports Foundation from\n33 national and 34 State and local women's and girls' rights\norganizations to voice our vehement opposition to H.R. 28.\n\n January 13, 2025.\n Dear Member of Congress, The National Women's Law Center\n and Women's Sports Foundation, joined by the undersigned\n women's and girls' rights organizations, write to voice our\n vehement opposition to H.R. 28 and S. 9, ``The Protection of\n Women and Girls in Sports Act of 2025.'' As organizations\n deeply committed to fulfilling the promise of Title IX of the\n Education Amendments of 1972 of equal educational opportunity\n for all women and girls, including in school sports, we have\n advocated for gender equity in schools for decades. Far from\n promoting sex equality in sports, H.R. 28 and S. 9 are\n discriminatory attempts to cause harm to and exclude\n transgender, intersex, and nonbinary students from school\n sports and would not promote fairness or safety in school\n sports for women and girls. We thus urge you to reject this\n effort to enshrine sex discrimination and oppose H.R. 28 and\n S. 9.\n H.R. 28 and S. 9 unmistakably constitute discrimination on\n the basis of sex. As recognized by the U.S. Supreme Court,\n numerous Federal courts, and the U.S. Department of\n Education, sex discrimination includes discrimination based\n on gender identity and sex characteristics. Title mandate\n that all students must be able to access the benefits and\n opportunities of an education free from sex discrimination\n includes the right to play sports.\n Rather than promote these goals, the deceptively titled,\n ``The Protection of Women and Girls in Sports Act,'' promotes\n discrimination and makes no effort to address the actual,\n pervasive discriminatory barriers that women and girls\n continue to face in school athletics. H.R. 28 and S. 9 do\n nothing to address the fact that college women have almost\n 60,000 fewer athletic opportunities to play than men, or that\n high school girls have over 1 million fewer opportunities\n than boys to play sports. It fails to take any steps to open\n opportunities for women and girls of color, who are\n disproportionately impacted by these disparities in\n participation opportunities. H.R. 28 and S. 9 do not advance\n policies to address the second-class treatment women's and\n girls' teams continue to receive from their schools as\n compared to men's and boys' teams when it comes to\n facilities, equipment, and travel. These bills do not address\n how colleges and universities have shortchanged women\n athletes millions of dollars in academic assistance. Nor do\n H.R. 28 and S. 9 seek to strengthen protections against the\n rampant sexual abuse student-athletes of all ages and genders\n still face. To put it plainly, one would be hard pressed to\n explain how banning transgender women and girls from playing\n alongside their peers does anything to address actual\n problems of sex discrimination in sports.\n H.R. 28 and S. 9's real purpose is not to expand\n opportunities for women and girls, but to deny transgender,\n intersex, and nonbinary students of their right under Title\n IX to equal athletic opportunities. This harms all women and\n girls. Recent data from the CDC shows that state policies\n that prevent transgender high school students from playing\n are correlated with lower participation by all high school\n girls between 2011 and 2019; meanwhile, participation by all\n girls remained unchanged in states with policies allowing\n transgender students to play. Sports participation is linked\n to increased academic achievement and fosters in students\n increased emotional, mental, and physical well-being and a\n sense of community. Amending Title IX to exclude transgender,\n intersex, and nonbinary students from these benefits will\n undeniably harm these students, who because of stigma and\n discrimination are already especially vulnerable to isolation\n and decreased academic performance, and ultimately harm all\n women and girls.\n Our organizations are deeply concerned about how H.R. 28\n and S. 9 dangerously invite gender policing that threatens\n all women and girls. H.R. 28 and S. 9 are vague and\n unworkable and could only be implemented by a combination of\n invasive and harmful practices. There is no principled way to\n apply the bill's unclear language to the many girls and young\n women born with intersex variations, which by definition, are\n variations in ``reproductive biology and genetics at birth.''\n Similar bans have been widely used to push girls and women\n born with these variations out of sports opportunities and\n have chilled their participation in school sports.\n Additionally, H.R. 28 and S. 9 would inevitably lead to\n schools and athletic associations adopting ``sex\n verification'' practices which may include forcing women and\n girls to submit to a variety of invasive, humiliating, and\n unscientific practices for the purported purpose of\n determining whether they are ``really'' girls or women. These\n procedures make all women and girls vulnerable to sexual\n abuse, but are especially likely to be used to target Black\n and brown women and girls who do not conform to white ideals\n of femininity, other women and girls who do not conform to\n sexist stereotypes, and nonbinary and gender nonconforming\n students. If H.R. 28 and S. 9 become law, it would permit\n school districts, colleges and universities, and athletics\n associations to become the arbiters of who is\n ``sufficiently'' feminine to play, thereby perpetuating\n harmful racist and sexist stereotypes that punish students\n for who they are or how they look, and placing students at\n further risk for sexual abuse, including harassment. And this\n isn't speculation. Just last year, a Utah school board member\n publicly questioned the gender of a 16-year-old cisgender\n girl playing on a high school basketball team who wore short\n hair and baggy clothes. As a result, the student was\n subjected to harassment, bullying, and threats of violence,\n necessitating police protection for her and her family.\n Every student deserves the opportunity to participate in\n sports in a safe environment. The blanket, discriminatory\n exclusion that H.R. 28 and S. 9 would mandate for every age,\n every sport, and every level of competition flies in the face\n of Title IX's mandate of equal access to educational\n opportunities. Transgender women and girls have been playing\n school sports for years, adhering to various rules and\n regulations set by their state or sport governance\n organization which govern their participation. Claims that\n they have been unfairly ``dominating'' competition are\n utterly false. H.R. 28 and S. 9 promote fear, dangerous\n stereotypes, and sex discrimination based on misinformation,\n and they should not become law.\n We welcome and support efforts that protect women and girls\n in sports, including those that would fix the problems we\n identified above. But this is not what H.R. 28 and S. 9 do.\n As women's rights and gender justice organizations, we\n vehemently reject this dangerous legislation and rhetoric\n which only serves to marginalize transgender, nonbinary, and\n intersex people and encourage scrutiny and policing of the\n bodies of all women and girls in sports. Supporting the civil\n rights of women and girls cannot be separated from\n championing policies that protect the rights of transgender,\n intersex, and nonbinary individuals' rights to be free from\n sex discrimination, including in school sports. This, at a\n minimum, includes voicing strong opposition to H.R. 28 and S.\n 9.\n If you have questions about this letter, please contact\n Shiwali Patel and Sarah Axelson.\n Sincerely,\n National Women's Law Center and Women's Sports Foundation,\n joined by:\n\n national organizations\n\n A Better Balance, American Association of University Women\n (AAUW), American Civil Liberties Union, Athletes Unlimited,\n Bend the Arc: Jewish Action, Callisto, Center for Policing\n Equity, Clearinghouse on Women's Issues, Empowering Pacific\n Islander Communities, End Rape on Campus, Esperanza United,\n Family Values @ Work, Feminist Majority Foundation, Girls for\n Gender Equity, Guttmacher Institute, Institute for Women's\n Policy Research, interACT: Advocates for Intersex Youth, Know\n Your IX, a project of Advocates for Youth, Ms. Foundation for\n Women, National Organization for Women, National Council of\n Jewish Women (NCJW), National Latina Institute for\n Reproductive Justice, National Partnership for Women &\n Families, Power to Decide, Red Wine & Blue, Reproductive\n Freedom for All (formerly NARAL Pro-Choice America), Sexual\n Violence Prevention Association (SVPA), Shattering Glass,\n Stop Sexual Assault in Schools, Transgender Law Center,\n VOICEINSPORT Foundation, Women's March, YWCA USA.\n\n state and local organizations\n\n ASTOP, Inc. Sexual Abuse Center, Bozeman City for CEDAW\n Women's Human Rights Task Force, MT, Chicago Alliance Against\n Sexual Exploitation (CAASE), Deaf Unity, Diverse & Resilient,\n Domestic Violence Escape (DOVE), Inc., Freedom, Inc.,\n\n[[Page H135]]\n\n Gender Justice, Harvard Law School Gender Violence Program,\n Illinois Accountability Initiative, Illinois Coalition\n Against Sexual Assault, KWH Law Center for Social Justice and\n Change, Maryland Network Against Domestic Violence, Menagerie\n Rugby Club, Minnesota Suns, Montanans for Choice Take Action,\n National Council of Jewish Women, Pennsylvania, National\n Organization for Women, Central New York, National\n Organization for Women, Columbia Area (MO), National\n Organization for Women, Florida, National Organization for\n Women, Massachusetts, National Organization for Women,\n Missouri, National Organization for Women, Montana, National\n Organization for Women, Santa Fe, National Organization for\n Women, Seattle, Network NOVA, Northwoods Women Inc., People\n Of Progression, Public Counsel, Reach Counseling, Stepping\n Stones, Inc., The Tucker Center, Wisconsin Coalition Against\n Sexual Assault, Women's Law Project.\n\n Ms. BONAMICI. Mr. Speaker, I also include in the Record a letter from\nRandi Weingarten, president of the American Federation of Teachers,\nwhich reads in part:\n ``On behalf of the 1.8 million members of the AFT, I write to urge\nyou to oppose H.R. 28, the so-called Protection of Women and Girls in\nSports Act of 2025, and to reject its attacks on our students.''\n\n AFT,\n\n January 13, 2025.\n House of Representatives,\n Washington, DC.\n Dear Representative: On behalf of the 1.8 million members\n of the AFT, I write to urge you to oppose H.R. 28, the so-\n called Protection of Women and Girls in Sports Act of 2025,\n and to reject its attacks on our students. This misguided\n bill bans transgender kids from participating in school\n sports, causing harm and undermining civil rights for all\n students.\n Rather than focusing on ways to strengthen public schools,\n meet the needs of all students and families, and protect\n transgender students from attacks, this bill targets students\n and blocks them from participating in school activities\n alongside their peers. Schools and colleges are looking for a\n practical road map on how to craft athletic policies and\n criteria for male and female teams consistent with Title IX--\n not a politically motivated blanket ban. Tragically, H.R. 28\n uses Title IX, which is intended to prevent discrimination,\n to in fact discriminate.\n This is not what parents and families want. They want\n Congress to address the actual challenges confronting them\n daily. Down-ballot elections across the country demonstrate\n that voters overwhelmingly reject political fights in schools\n and instead favor strengthening their public schools and\n providing educators the resources they need to create safe\n and welcoming environments; boost academic skills, pave\n pathways to career, college, and beyond; and keep kids safe\n from gun and other violence. The new Congress should be\n working to advance commonsense solutions that support our\n nation's students, value our nation's parents and families,\n and help our nation's educators.\n H.R. 28 is harmful and cruel. It targets innocent kids who\n want to live their lives in peace and play sports on a team\n with their friends and classmates. And to make matters worse,\n it uses the protection of women and girls as a smokescreen to\n further discriminate against them and open up pathways to\n violate their privacy and safety. We know that if the\n legislation's goal were to truly expand protections for women\n and girls, it would provide for equal facilities and\n equipment, strengthen sexual harassment protections and\n address strategies women athletes have been advocating for\n decades--but it does not.\n We stand with parents and families eager to partner with\n Congress to meaningfully address these issues. Unfortunately,\n that is not the focus of this legislation. Please vote ``no''\n on H.R. 28.\n Thank you for considering our views on these issues.\n Sincerely,\n Randi Weingarten,\n President, AFT.\n\n Ms. BONAMICI. Mr. Speaker, I reserve the balance of my time.\n Mr. WALBERG. Mr. Speaker, I reserve the balance of my time.\n Ms. BONAMICI. Mr. Speaker, may I inquire as to how much time I have\nremaining.\n The SPEAKER pro tempore. The gentlewoman from Oregon has 3\\1/2\\\nminutes remaining.\n Ms. BONAMICI. Mr. Speaker, I yield myself the balance of my time.\n Mr. Speaker, Congress has the power and the responsibility to make a\nreal difference for Americans. Yet, we are starting this Congress with\na bill that dangerously picks on an extremely small number of children\nand young adults but putting all children and young adults at risk.\nThese attacks are fueled by discrimination and not facts.\n A poll from 2022 found that two-thirds of LGBTQI+ youth report that\nrecent debates about State laws restricting the rights of transgender\npeople have negatively affected their mental health. Today, my\ncolleagues are furthering this hate. America already has a youth mental\nhealth crisis, and my colleagues are exacerbating it by promoting these\nhateful policies, and that is unacceptable.\n Let's talk about ways to champion opportunities in sports for all\nwomen and girls. We celebrated the 50th anniversary of Title IX 2 years\nago, which protects people from discrimination based on sex in\neducation programs or activities.\n Under Title IX, we have seen a considerable increase in the number of\nfemale students participating in sports, but college women still have\nnearly 60,000 fewer athletic opportunities than men, and high school\ngirls have about 1 million fewer opportunities to play sports than high\nschool boys.\n Do my colleagues only care about women's sports when it benefits\npartisan talking points? Apparently so because preventing transgender\nwomen and girls, who make up only a tiny fraction of a percent of\ncollege athletes, from participating in sports seems to be more\nimportant to my colleagues than starting this 119th Congress with\nlegislation that would protect female athletes from assault or\nharassment.\n Mr. Speaker, we should focus our work on promoting policies that make\nsports safe, accessible, and fair for everyone. This bill does not do\nthat.\n I emphasize that my colleagues still have not explained how\nenforcement is going to happen without serious and risky invasions of\nprivacy and the inquiry of intensely personal information.\n Mr. Speaker, I urge my colleagues to show some compassion, show some\nhumanity, and please reject this partisan bill that will harm our\nNation's youth.\n Mr. Speaker, I yield back the balance of my time.\n Mr. WALBERG. Mr. Speaker, I yield myself the balance of my time.\n Mr. Speaker, it saddens me to hear that my colleagues, who I respect\nand enjoy working with on most things, are totally not recognizing the\nfact that the American people, parents, grandparents, and teachers,\ndon't stand with them and organizations that are reported today aren't\nspeaking for the benefit of girls and women.\n It is absolutely heart-wrenching to see daughters and sisters lose\nraces. The strides women have made across all corners of the sports\nworld deserve to be celebrated and protected.\n Like it or not, sports are based on physical ability. Pretending\notherwise is a stark denial of reality.\n Erasing sex means ultimately erasing women, especially when it comes\nto sports. Girls and women lose a fair chance to compete when a\nbiological male enters the field.\n We can't let women's sports become collateral damage in the far\nleft's campaign against a traditional science-based understanding of\nsex. Allowing women and girls to suffer for the sake of the dishonesty\nof wokeness is inexcusable.\n We need to stand for women and girls. I believe that the constituents\nin overwhelming majority understand what my colleagues are posturing\nwith and that that is not what we are talking about.\n We are standing for affirming Title IX, affirming women, affirming\ngirls, and protecting them for their abilities to succeed in the\nfuture.\n I plead with my Democratic colleagues to join us in celebrating women\nand girls, the female athlete, and females in general.\n Mr. Speaker, I yield back the balance of my time.\n Ms. BONAMICI. Mr. Speaker, I include in the Record the second letter\nI referenced during general debate on H.R. 28, a letter led by the\nLeadership Conference for Civil and Human Rights with signatories from\n117 national and 289 regional, state, and local civil rights\norganizations rejecting ``the so-called Protection of Women and Girls\nin Sports Act of 2025, because it would harm women and girls and\nundermine civil rights for all students.''\n\n The Leadership Conference,\n\n January 13, 2025.\n\n Oppose H.R. 28 to Protect Civil Rights\n\n Dear Member of Congress, On behalf of The Leadership\n Conference on Civil and Human Rights, a coalition charged by\n its diverse membership of more than 240 national\n organizations to promote and protect the civil and human\n rights of all persons in the United States, and the 414\n undersigned organizations, we call for the full inclusion,\n protection, and celebration of transgender, nonbinary, and\n intersex youth, including access\n\n[[Page H136]]\n\n to extracurricular activities such as athletics, and to\n school facilities, safe and inclusive school environments,\n and accurate and inclusive curriculum. We reject H.R. 28, the\n so-called Protection of Women and Girls in Sports Act of\n 2025, because it would harm women and girls and undermine\n civil rights for all students.\n This discriminatory proposal seeks to exclude transgender,\n nonbinary, and intersex people from athletics programs in\n schools. Although the authors of the legislation represent\n themselves as serving the interests of cisgender girls and\n women, this legislation does not address the longstanding\n barriers all girls and women have faced in their pursuit of\n athletics. Instead of providing for equal facilities,\n equipment, and travel, or any other strategy that women\n athletes have been pushing for for decades, the bill\n cynically veils an attack on transgender people as a question\n of athletics policy.\n Youth sports often play a significant role in children's\n lives and development, helping them to develop critical life\n skills like communication, teamwork, and leadership. Sports\n spaces are imperative for all young people, no matter their\n gender. Transgender, nonbinary, and intersex youth want to\n participate in team sports for the same reasons as their\n cisgender peers: to be part of a team, learn sportsmanship,\n and challenge themselves. School athletics are very often the\n centerpiece of communities across the country, and denying\n transgender, nonbinary, and intersex youth the chance to\n participate only serves to deny them an opportunity to be\n part of that community, further isolating and stigmatizing\n these youth.\n The civil and human rights community is no stranger to the\n proffering of a bigoted agenda as if it were about equal\n opportunity. We know about wolves in sheep's clothing. We\n know that when affirmative action policies created to level\n the playing field in higher education admissions are attacked\n by opponents of voting rights (as was true in the Students\n for Fair Admissions (SFFA) v. Harvard College/University of\n North Carolina cases), that their agenda is not about the\n rights of people of color. We know that when companies profit\n from poverty wages for disabled people, especially in\n segregated work sites (as is the case for sheltered workshops\n that pay subminimum wages to disabled workers), that their\n agenda is not about independence and self-determination for\n workers. And we know that when opponents of Title IX,\n including those who have sought for decades to weaken its\n protections and undermine its enforcement, now present\n themselves as the law's champions, that their agenda is not\n about the rights of women and girls.\n Targeting and excluding transgender, nonbinary, and\n intersex students from participation in school programming,\n including athletics programs, alongside their cisgender peers\n is harmful to all students and undermines the learning\n environment for everyone. If schools mark some students\n effectively as outcasts, they foster an environment where no\n student is included and safe. H.R. 28's vague language and\n intrusive focus on scrutiny of students' bodies will\n effectively exclude cisgender girls and women with intersex\n variations from participation, will invite scrutiny and\n harassment of any other student perceived by anyone as not\n conforming to sex stereotypes, and will likely be\n disproportionately used to target all girls and women of\n color. We support the full inclusion and protection of\n transgender, nonbinary, and intersex youth.\n We are fortunate that transgender, nonbinary, and intersex\n people are present in our community, and we fully embrace\n them as members of our community. As organizations that care\n deeply about ending sex-based discrimination and ensuring\n equal educational opportunities, we support laws and policies\n that protect transgender people from discrimination,\n including full and equal participation in sports, access to\n gender-affirming care, access to school facilities, and\n access to inclusive curriculum. We firmly believe that an\n attack on transgender youth is an attack on civil rights.\n We ask all members of Congress to strongly oppose H.R. 28\n and to reject attacks on transgender, nonbinary, and intersex\n youth; to commit themselves to meaningfully advancing\n policies that support equal opportunity; and to reassure all\n students in the nation's classrooms that they will have the\n chance to learn, grow, and thrive. If you have any questions,\n please reach out to Liz King, senior program director at The\n Leadership Conference on Civil and Human Rights, at\n king@civilrights.org.\n Sincerely,\n\n National (121)\n\n The Leadership Conference on Civil and Human Rights;\n Advocates for Trans Equality, Advocates for Youth, AFT;\n American Association of University Women (AAUW), American\n Atheists; American Civil Liberties Union; American Federation\n of State; County and Municipal Employees (AFSCME); American\n Humanist Association; Amnesty International USA; Autistic\n Women & Nonbinary Network; Bayard Rustin Center for Social\n Justice; Bazelon Center for Mental Health Law; Bend the Arc:\n Jewish Action; CenterLink: The Community of LGBTQ Centers;\n Chrysalis; Clearinghouse on Women's Issues; COLAGE;\n Collective Power for Reproductive Justice; Council for Global\n Equality; EdTrust; Education Law Center; Educators for\n Excellence; Elevated Access; Empowering Pacific Islander\n Communities; Equal Justice Society; Equal Rights Advocates;\n Equality Federation; Equity Forward.\n Family Equality, Feminist Majority Foundation, FORGE, Inc.,\n Gender Justice League, GLAAD, GLMA: Health Professionals\n Advancing LGBTQ+ Equality, GLSEN, HAIR HAS NO GENDER NFP,\n Human Rights Campaign, Human Rights First, Ibis Reproductive\n Health, Impact Fund, Indivisible, interACT: Advocates for\n Intersex Youth, Interfaith Alliance, Japanese American\n Citizens League, Jewish Council for Public Affairs, Justice\n and Joy National Collaborative, Keshet, Labor Council for\n Latin American Advancement, Lambda Legal, LatinoJustice\n PRLDEF, Lavender Rights Project, Liberation is Lit, LPAC,\n Matthew Shepard Foundation, Movement Advancement Project,\n MPact Global, NAACP, NAACP Legal Defense Fund, Nathaniel R.\n Jones Foundation, National Asian Pacific American Bar\n Association (NAPABA), National Association of Social Workers,\n National Center for Lesbian Rights, National Council of\n Jewish Women, National Disability Rights Network (NDRN),\n National Education Association, National Hispanic Media\n Coalition, National LGBTQ Task Force Action Fund, National\n LGBTQ+ Bar Association, National LGBTQI+ Cancer Network,\n National Network of Abortion Funds, National Organization for\n Women.\n National Partnership for Women & Families, National Urban\n League, National Women's Law Center, Nclusion Plus, NETWORK\n Lobby for Catholic Social Justice, Our Schools USA, Out in\n Science, Technology, Engineering & Mathematics, Inc.,\n Patchwork Transgender Peer Services, People For the American\n Way, PFLAG National, Planned Parenthood Federation of\n America, Point of Pride, Popular Democracy, Positive Women's\n Network-USA, Pride At Work, AFL-CIO, Public Justice,\n Reproaction, Reproductive Freedom for All (formerly NARAL\n Pro-Choice America), Safe Schools Action Network, Sam &\n Devorah Foundation for Trans Youth, Service Employees\n International Union (SEIU), SIECUS: Sex Ed for Social Change,\n Sikh American Legal Defense and Education Fund (SALDEF),\n State Innovation Exchange (SiX) Action, Tbuddy, The Advocacy\n Institute, The Advocates for Human Rights, The Autistic\n People of Color Fund, The Global Trans Equity Project, The\n Restaurant Opportunities Centers United (ROC United), The\n TransLatin@ Coalition, Trans in Color, Transathlete,\n Transcending Adolescence, TransFamily Support Services,\n Transgender Law Center, TransParent, T'ruah: The Rabbinic\n Call for Human Rights, UFCW OUTreach, Union for Reform\n Judaism, United Church of Christ, URGE: Unite for\n Reproductive & Gender Equity, Voices for Progress, Voters of\n Tomorrow, Western States Center, Whitman-Walker Institute,\n Youth MOVE National, Youth Seen, YWCA USA.\n\n regional/state/local (294)\n\n African American Office of Gay Concerns, Aces NYC,\n Adirondack North Country Gender Alliance, Advocates for\n Children of New York, AJL Community Health, Alliance For Full\n Acceptance SC, American Federation of Teachers--Oregon,\n Arkansas Black Gay Men's Forum, Association of Latinos/as/xs\n Motivating Action, Azalea Coffee Bar, Bans Off Miami, Basic\n Rights Oregon, Battle Born Progress, Bolingbrook Pride,\n Brenham PFLAG, Brooklyn Community Pride Center, CA LGBTQ\n Health and Human Services Network, CalPride, CAMP Rehoboth,\n Campaign for Southern Equality, Carolina Abortion Fund, Casa\n Freehold, Cascade AIDS Project, Central Coast Coalition for\n Inclusive Schools, Charlotte Trans Health, Chattanooga Trans\n Liberation Collective, Chicago Teachers Union LGBTQ+\n Committee, Chicago Therapy Collective, City of West\n Hollywood, Courage California, Crescent Care, Deerfield IL\n Chapter of PFLAG, Delmarva Pride Center, Denver Health and\n Hospital Authority, Detroit Area Youth Uniting Michigan\n (DAYUM), Disability Law Center, Disability Rights California,\n Disability Rights Oregon.\n East Bay Sanctuary Covenant, Eastern PA Trans Equity\n Project, Education Law Center Pennsylvania, entre hermanos,\n Envision: You, Equality California, Equality Community\n Center, Equality Florida, Equality Illinois, Equality Maine,\n Equality Michigan, Equality New Mexico, Equality NY--Buffalo\n Chapter, Equality Ohio, Equality South Dakota, Equality\n Texas, Equitas Health, Fair Wisconsin, Fairness Campaign,\n Family Forward Oregon, Famous Adventures Summer Camp, Fenway\n Health, FL National Organization for Women, Florida Council\n of Churches, Four Corners Rainbow Youth Center, Freedom\n Oklahoma, Garden State Equality, Gender Alchemy, Gender\n Justice, Gender Justice LA, GenderNexus, Georgia Equality,\n GLSEN Arizona, GLYS Western New York Inc., GRACE/End Child\n Poverty California, Grand Rapids Trans Foundation, GSAFE,\n Harriet Hancock Center Foundation, Hawai`i `Ohana Support\n Network, Health Equity Alliance for LGBTQ+ New Mexicans,\n Howard Brown Health, Hugh Lane Wellness Foundation, Hyacinth\n Foundation.\n Illinois Migrant Council, Inland Empire Prism Collective,\n Inland Oasis, Jewish Community Relations Council of Broward\n County, Jewish Community Relations Council of Greater\n Phoenix, Just Us at Oasis Center, Kol Ami, Latino Equality\n Alliance, Latino Network, Lavender Phoenix, Levine Center To\n End Hate/Jewish Federation of Greater Rochester, LGBT Center\n of Raleigh, LGBT Center of SE Wisconsin, LGBT Community\n\n[[Page H137]]\n\n Network, LGBTQ Center OC, LGBTQ Community Center of the\n Desert, LGBTQ+ Center Lake County, LGBTQ+ Community Center of\n Darke County, LGBTQI+ Rights Clinic, Northwestern Pritzker\n School of Law, Life is Work, Los Angeles LGBT Center,\n Louisiana Trans Advocates, Louisville Youth Group, Loving\n Beyond Understanding, Lyon Martin Community Health, LYRIC,\n Mabel Wadsworth Center, MaineTransNet, Make it Better for\n Youth, Make the Road Nevada, Mama Bears Playgroup,\n Massachusetts Transgender Political Coalition, MassEquality,\n Metro Trans Umbrella Group, Michigan Alliance for Special\n Education, Michigan Education Justice Coalition, Michigan\n Student Power Alliance, Monica Roberts Resource Center,\n Montgomery Pride United/ Bayard Rustin Community Center,\n Muncie OUTreach LGBTQ+ Center.\n Naper Pride, Nevada Chapter of the National Organization\n for Women, New Alternatives For Homeless LGBT Youth, New\n Haven Pride Center, New Jersey Safe Schools Coalition, New\n Mexico Coalition of Sexual Assault Programs, Next Up Action\n Fund, North County LGBTQ Resource Center, North Dakota Human\n Rights Coalition, North Shore Alliance of LGBTQ+ Youth\n (NAGLY), NoVA Prism Center, Oasis Legal Services, Office of\n Strategic Partnerships, California Department of Health Care\n Services, One Colorado, one-n-ten, OUT Maine, OutCenter\n Southwest Michigan, OutFront Minnesota, OUTMemphis,\n OutNebraska, OutReach LGBTQ+ Community Center, PAVE, Peoria\n Proud, PFLAG Aiken (South Carolina), PFLAG Akron, PFLAG\n Angleton- Lake Jackson, PFLAG Athens Area, Georgia, PFLAG\n Cape Cod, PFLAG Chicago Metro, PFLAG Clayton-Concord, PFLAG\n Collingswood, PFLAG Columbus, Ohio, PFLAG Council of Northern\n Illinois, PFLAG Danville/ Central Susquehanna Valley, PFLAG\n DanvilleKY, PFLAG Dayton, PFLAG Decatur, PFLAG Deerfield IL,\n PFLAG Delaware, PFLAG Detroit, PFLAG DuPage, PFLAG\n Edwardsville, PFLAG Flat Rock/Hendersonville, NC.\n PFLAG Fort Collins / Northern Colorado, PFLAG Fort Wayne,\n PFLAG Fort Worth, PFLAG Frederick, PFLAG Geneva/Tri-Cities,\n PFLAG Grayslake/Round Lake, PFLAG Greater Boston, PFLAG\n Greater St. Louis, PFLAG GREENSBURG, PFLAG Hartford, PFLAG\n Homewood-Flossmoor, PFLAG HuntsvilleTX, PFLAG Illinois, PFLAG\n Ithaca-Cortland, PFLAG Lafayette/Tippecanoe County Indiana,\n PFLAG Lamorinda, PFLAG Los Angeles, PFLAG Madison WI, PFLAG\n meto chapter, PFLAG NYC, PFLAG O'ahu, PFLAG Oakland-East Bay,\n PFLAG Peoria, PFLAG Plymouth-Canton, PFLAG Port Charlotte\n Chapter, PFLAG Sacramento, PFLAG Salisbury, PFLAG San Diego\n County, PFLAG San Francisco, PFLAG San Jose/Peninsula, PFLAG\n Sandy Springs, PFLAG Seattle, PFLAG Sonoma County, PFLAG\n Southern Maryland, PFLAG Springfield/SWMO, PFLAG Tinley Park,\n PFLAG Tri-Valley, PFLAG Valparaiso, PFLAG West Chester/\n Chester County, PFLAG Youngstown, Philadelphia Asian and\n Queer, Pride Action Tank/AIDS Foundation Chicago, Pride at\n Work--Hawai'i.\n Pride Center of Terre Haute Inc., Pride Community Center,\n Inc (Bryan/College Station, Texas), Pride in Action, Southern\n IL, Pride Lafayette (Indiana), Princess Janae Place, PRISM\n FL, Prism United, Pro-Choice North Carolina, PROMO Missouri,\n Public Health Institute of Metropolitan Chicago, QT Summer\n Camp, Queer City Therapy, Queer Keys, Queer Trans Black\n Indigenous People of Color Agency, Queermunity Collaborative,\n Rabbi Joseph H. Gumbiner Community Action Project at Tucson\n Jewish Museum & Holocaust Center, Rad Family, a project of\n North Jersey Pride, Rainbow Collective of WNY, Rainbow\n Families Bay Area Community Group, Rainbow Labs, Rainbow\n Pride Youth Alliance, Reproductive Justice Action Collective,\n Resource Center, Rising Voices, Rochester Rainbow Union,\n Rockland County Pride Center, Rocky Mountain Equality, Rogue\n Action Center, Sacramento LGBT Community Center, Salisbury\n Pride, San Joaquin Delta College, San Joaquin Pride Center,\n INC., Save Our Sisters United, Serving at-risk families\n everywhere, Inc., Sexual Assault Services Organization,\n Silver State Equality-Nevada, Sioux Falls Pride, SMYAL,\n SOJOURN: Southern Jewish Resource Network for Gender and\n Sexual Diversity, Solano Pride Center, Somos Familia Valle,\n Soul 2 Soul Sisters, South Carolina Equality.\n Southern Arizona AIDS Foundation, Southwest Women's Law\n Center, Spencer Pride, Inc., St. Stephen's Episcopal Church,\n Support FHPS Action, TaskForce Prevention and Community\n Services, Tennessee Equality Project, The Center Project, The\n Cherry Fund, The DC LGBTQ+ Community Center, The GLO Center,\n The Human Rights Alliance, The Lavender Room, The LGBTQ\n Center of Southern Nevada, The LIAM Foundation, The LOFT\n LGBTQ+ Community Center, The Mahogany Project, The Pinta\n Pride Project and Buffalo Grove Pride, The Pride Center at\n Equality Park, The San Diego LGBT Community Center, The\n Sports Bra, The Transformation Project South Dakota, Towards\n an Anti-Racist North Kingstown (TANK), TRACTION, Trans\n Maryland, Trans-E-Motion, Transformative Justice Law Project\n of Illinois, Transgender Michigan, Transgender Resource\n Center of New Mexico, Transgender Resource, Advocacy and\n Network Service, TransOhio, T-time Transgender Support,\n Uniting Pride of Champaign County, Upstate NY Black & Latino\n Pride, Inc., Viet Rainbow of Orange County, Waves Ahead Corp,\n We Are Family, Wild West Access Fund of Nevada, WNY Man Made\n Men, Women's Rights and Empowerment Network, Youth Leadership\n Institute, Youth Outlook, Youth OUTright, Zebra Youth.\n\n The SPEAKER pro tempore. All time for debate has expired.\n Pursuant to House Resolution 5, the previous question is ordered on\nthe bill.\n The question is on the engrossment and third reading of the bill.\n The bill was ordered to be engrossed and read a third time, and was\nread the third time.\n\n Motion to Recommit\n\n Ms. ADAMS. Mr. Speaker, I have a motion to recommit at the desk.\n The SPEAKER pro tempore. The Clerk will report the motion to\nrecommit.\n The Clerk read as follows:\n\n Ms. Adams of North Carolina moves to recommit the bill H.R.\n 28 to the Committee on Education and Workforce.\n\n The material previously referred to by Ms. Adams is as follows:\n\n Ms. Adams of North Carolina moves to recommit the bill H.R.\n 28 to the Committee on Education and the Workforce with\n instructions to report the same back to the House forthwith\n with the following amendment:\n\n Strike all after the enacting clause, and insert the\n following:\n\n SECTION 1. SHORT TITLE.\n\n This Act may be cited as the ``Fair Play for Women Act''.\n\n SEC. 2. FINDINGS.\n\n Congress finds the following:\n (1) More than 50 years ago, Congress passed title IX of the\n Education Amendments of 1972 (referred to in this section as\n ``title IX''), helping to transform participation in and\n support for women's sports by barring discrimination on the\n basis of sex in all schools that receive Federal funding,\n including in their athletic programs.\n (2) Since the passage of title IX, millions more women and\n girls have had the opportunity to compete in school-based\n athletics. In high school athletics, athletic participation\n opportunities have increased from nearly 300,000 in 1972 to\n more than 3,400,000 in 2019. In intercollegiate athletics,\n opportunities have increased from nearly 30,000 in 1972 to\n 215,000 in 2020 on teams sponsored by institutions who are\n members of the National Collegiate Athletic Association\n (referred to in this section as the ``NCAA'').\n (3) Despite progress, women and girls still face unequal\n opportunities and unfair treatment in school-based athletics.\n In high school athletics, girls have over 1,000,000 fewer\n athletic opportunities than boys, with schools providing\n girls with 43 percent of all athletic opportunities while\n girls represent nearly half of all students. In\n intercollegiate athletics, colleges would need to provide\n women with an additional 148,000 sports opportunities to\n match the same ratio of sports opportunities per student as\n is offered to men. Overall, girls still do not have the\n participation opportunities provided to boys before the\n enactment of title IX, over 50 years ago.\n (4) Girls of color are often most impacted by unequal\n resources and unfair treatment. At high schools predominantly\n attended by white students, girls have 82 percent of the\n opportunities that boys have to play sports, while at high\n schools predominantly attended by students of color, girls\n have only 67 percent of the opportunities that boys have to\n play sports.\n (5) As part of title IX athletics requirements, schools can\n show they are compliant by providing athletic participation\n opportunities for men and women that are substantially\n proportionate to their respective enrollment rates. Yet, a\n Government Accountability Office report from 2024 found that\n 93 percent of all colleges had athletic participation rates\n for women that were lower than their enrollment rate at the\n colleges. At 63 percent of colleges, women's athletic\n participation rates were at least 10 percentage points lower\n than their enrollment rates. Overall, the athletic\n participation rate for collegiate women was 14 percent less\n than their enrollment rate. Despite widespread noncompliance\n with title IX athletics requirements, no college has ever had\n Federal funding rescinded nor been sued by the Federal\n government for noncompliance.\n (6) The magnitude of current gaps in intercollegiate\n athletics participation opportunities is likely undercounted,\n as investigations of intercollegiate athletics data have\n found that the majority of NCAA member institutions inflate\n the number of women participating in sports by double- and\n triple-counting women athletes who participate in more than\n one sport more often than the institutions double- and\n triple-count their counterparts who are men, counting men who\n are practice players on women's teams as women athletes, and\n packing women's teams with extra players who never end up\n competing.\n (7) Women and girls in sports also face unfair treatment.\n They are frequently provided worse facilities, equipment, and\n uniforms than men and boys, and they receive less financial\n support and publicity from their schools. In the 2019-2020\n academic year, women received $252,000,000 less than men in\n athletic-based scholarships, and for every dollar colleges\n spent on recruiting, travel,\n\n[[Page H138]]\n\n and equipment for men's sports, they spent 58 cents, 62\n cents, and 73 cents, respectively, for women's sports.\n (8) Amid ongoing unfair treatment, athletes and athletics-\n related staff too often are unaware of the rights and\n obligations provided by title IX. In surveys of children and\n their parents, the majority report not knowing what title IX\n is. A study conducted by the Government Accountability Office\n in 2017 found that most high school athletic administrators\n were unaware of who their title IX coordinator was or felt\n unsupported by their title IX coordinator. In intercollegiate\n athletics, most coaches report that they never received\n formal training about title IX as part of the preparation for\n their jobs.\n\n SEC. 3. PURPOSES.\n\n The purposes of this Act are to--\n (1) address unfair and discriminatory treatment of women\n and girls in sports in elementary and secondary schools, as\n well as institutions of higher education;\n (2) improve the collection and transparency of data\n pertaining to participation in and support for women's and\n girls' sports at schools receiving Federal financial\n assistance;\n (3) ensure all students participating in athletics, as well\n as those who work in school-sponsored athletics, are aware of\n and understand the nondiscrimination rights of students\n related to their athletic opportunities; and\n (4) ensure all students have equal access to high-quality\n and supportive athletic opportunities.\n To read the complete bill text go to: http://democrats-\nedworkforce.house.gov/download/fair-play-for-women-act-bill-text\n\n =========================== NOTE ===========================\n\n On January 14, 2025, page H138, in the first column, the\nfollowing appeared: high-quality and supportive athletic\nopportunities.\n\n The online version has been corrected to read: high-quality and\nsupportive athletic opportunities. To read the complete bill text\ngo to: http://democrats-edworkforce.house.gov/download/fair-play-\nfor-women-act-bill-text\n\n ========================= END NOTE =========================\n\n The SPEAKER pro tempore. Pursuant to clause 2(b) of rule XIX, the\nprevious question is ordered on the motion to recommit.\n The question is on the motion to recommit.\n The question was taken; and the Speaker pro tempore announced that\nthe noes appeared to have it.\n Ms. ADAMS. Mr. Speaker, on that I demand the yeas and nays.\n The yeas and nays were ordered.\n The SPEAKER pro tempore. Pursuant to clause 8 of rule XX, further\nproceedings on this question will be postponed.\n\n ____________________"]], "columns": ["granule_id", "date", "congress", "session", "volume", "issue", "title", "chamber", "granule_class", "sub_granule_class", "page_start", "page_end", "speakers", "bills", "citation", "full_text"], "primary_keys": ["granule_id"], "primary_key_values": ["CREC-2025-01-14-pt1-PgH126"], "units": {}, "query_ms": 25.94831900205463, "source": "Federal Register API & Regulations.gov API", "source_url": "https://www.federalregister.gov/developers/api/v1", "license": "Public Domain (U.S. Government data)", "license_url": "https://www.regulations.gov/faq"}