House Panel Advances Bill Banning Transgender Athletes From Women’s Sports

A House committee on March 9 voted to pass a bill that would bar transgender athletes from competing in women’s and girls’ sports.
In a party-line vote, the House Committee on Education and the Workforce advanced the Protection of Women and Girls in Sports Act, H.R. 734., which would amend Title IX to recognize sex as “based solely on a person’s reproductive biology and genetics at birth.” Title IX protects against sex discrimination in education.
The panel on Thursday also voted to pass a national “parents bills of rights.” Both measures are headed to the House floor.
The vote came a day after robust debate in the committee on these two bills. Both measures are part of the “Commitment to America” policy promises that the GOP announced last fall….}