The House gave women a small win yesterday by passing the Protection of Women and Girls in Sports Act of 2025 (H.R.28)

A little background on H.R. 28: introduced by Rep. Greg Steube, R-Florida, and cosponsored by U.S. Rep. Harriet Hageman, R-Wyoming, passed on a 218-206 count with one formal abstention and nine members not voting.

The legislation in H.R. 28 establishes definitions for sports participation based on biological sex at birth and prohibits federal funding for schools or athletic programs that allow biological males to compete in female categories. Something soon-to-be-moving-out Joe Biden tried to pull a fast one on with Title IX gender ideology mandates.

As one of the first generations to benefit from Title IX, I want all girls to have the same opportunity to safely participate in athletics. The ideological war on womanhood completely disregards biological facts, putting our daughters in danger on courts, fields and tracks.

The left’s anti-woman agenda is a slap in the face to every female who has trained, sacrificed and excelled in their sport and the generations who fought to give them that opportunity. The Protection of Women and Girls in Sports Act is a commonsense solution to ensure fairness, safety, and respect for biological realities. Republicans will not back down in this fight to protect our daughters and their futures.”-Harriet Hageman

Can we get an “Amen” in the back of the house? The interesting tidbit to note here is how the MSM frames the headlines. Both NBC and ABC News say the “House passes bill to ban transgender student-athletes from women’s sports”. Read that again. House passes bill to ban transgender student-athletes from women’s sports. Not “House passes bill to ban BIOLOGICAL BOYS/MALE athletes from women’s sports. CBS News states that transgender students are “banned from participating in girls’ sports”. Again, let’s read between the lines: Boys who want to be girls are banned from girls’ sports. There. Fixed it for CBS, too.

The distinction between men and women is clear and evident, and the erasure of this division has been promulgated by those in the radical left who seek to dismantle the core foundation of our society. We must never let our country and the American way of life surrender to this immoral ideology.”-Rep. Greg Steube, R-Fla.

I know some lurkers may be reading this and thinking about what a hateful group of women we must be to not support this lunacy. But, a boy, a young man or a grown man with man parts has NO BUSINESS in a woman’s locker room at a school, in a university setting or at the neighborhood gym. A boy/man who says he’s a “girl” has NO BUSINESS taking away a girl’s college scholarship or a State, National or Olympic title. For parents of kids who identify as “trans”, seeing as they make up about 3% of young people, this may involve being an active and supportive parent and looking into other options of co-ed sports. And, if you are a parent who thinks it’s completely okay for your high school (biological boy) -AKA trans “girl” to take a scholarship opportunity or a state title away from a hard-working, young woman and you cannot find the stones to explain how this is unfair on so many levels to YOUR child that YOU gave birth to with your feminine biological makeup, YOU are part of the problem.

@GOP bigots. When they tell you who they are, believe them.

— Mike Reid (@ToysRUsforyears) April 20, 2023

C’mon. Heya, Mike? Are you okay? And, excuse me, GOP “bigots”? You know who voted against this legislation in the House? Henry Cuellar and Vincente Gonzalez-both Democrats from Texas! Both MEN! But, the left will continue to be delusional. Manhattan Rep. Jerry Nadler (D-NY), says this is a “cruel attack” on children and may lead to young girls to be subject to “genital examination” and, Dear God, if that is not perverted and sick, we don’t know what is. Perverted and sick, according to these yutzes, is certainly not a biological boy/man who thinks he’s a “girl” strolling around the locker room with his ball sack hanging out. Girl athletes who do not want to see this in their locker rooms and showers are now “bigots” in favor of “sick and twisted genital inspection”. Their families who rally behind them and don’t want them experiencing this lunacy in their showers, locker rooms and, at their sporting events are also “bigots”. Why? Becausethese Democrat MEN say so.

Here’s another MAN sounding off:

What’s most offensive about the legislation is that it doesn’t distinguish: girls sports at what age?. Whether you’re an Olympic athlete, an NCAA player, a high school sports player regulated by your state or whether you’re just playing soccer as a 4-year-old or 5-year-old down the street.

It potentially could lead to inspections, individuals raising concerns, and how you proceed with that is something that is concerning to the House Democratic Caucus.”-House Democratic Caucus Chairman Pete Aguilar

Oh, here we go with the inspections again. Does anyone else think these men are preoccupied with this sick notion? These GUYS are sooooo concerned about children and women and their welfare that it is now offensive to tell a boy that he is, indeed a boy with boy strength and he cannot beat a girl at swimming or slam a volleyball at her head and give her a concussion so he can win a match. But, they say-only a few girls have been injured at the hands of a boy-err-ummm-a trans “girl”. The number of girls actually injured is so minuscule. No big deal.

Athletes come to their sports with a variety of talent, body sizes, physical advantages or disadvantages, genetic makeup, and mental drive. Many cisgender girls, for example, are extremely tall or have exceptional muscle mass, traits that could give them an edge in multiple sports. But, correctly, we do not exclude those girls from school sports.”-ACLU

The count brought it to blows between Rep. Nancy Mace (R-SC) asked Rep. Jasmine Crockett (D-Texas):

Child?!

Looks like she is trying to get herself a reality show and not help her constituents!

— Elizabeth Morais (@ElizabethM10333) January 15, 2025

Oh, but Crockett didn’t say “child”, according to her defenders. She said “chile“, good Southern womah like Nancy Mace should know what this means, according to them. “Chile” could mean “chill” or….it could also mean what Nancy Mace thought it meant: CHILD.

…predominantly southern variation of the word “child”, meaning a juvenile person, either in the literal or figurative sense.

Thank you, Urban Dictionary!

Now H.R.28 goes to the Senate and then, God only knows. It will probably sit out on the bench for a long time. We can have hope for some sanity to return. And it’s about time that it did.

Feature Photo Credit: Boys and girls holding basketballs via iStock, cropped and modified