A group of nearly 70 House Republicans introduced a bill on Wednesday to reverse the Biden administration’s changes to Title IX forcing public schools to allow trans-identifying males to compete in women’s sports and use women’s bathrooms.
Representative Mary Miller (R-IL) led 67 of her GOP colleagues in the House in introducing the bill, which would nix the changes.
Miller called the administration’s new regulations a “blatant violation” of Title IX’s protections for women.
“Joe Biden is undermining years of progress women have made in securing their rights under Title IX,” Miller said in a statement.
“For more than half a century, Title IX has protected women and girls, ensuring they have equal opportunities in education,” the congresswoman said. “However, the Biden Administration is putting our girls at risk by allowing men to access women’s and girls’ bathrooms and locker rooms. This divergence is a blatant violation of the protections Title IX was meant to guarantee, and it undermines the very foundation of women’s rights and security in their private spaces.”
Last month, Miller had a heated exchange with Health and Human Services Secretary Xavier Becerra over transgender medical interventions for minors during a House committee hearing.
Miller asked Becerra to commit to not withholding federal funding from hospitals that refuse to provide transgender medical services for religious reasons.
“If a health facility is violating the law and not providing the service they’re required to, they’re not entitled to the resources,” Becerra responded.
“The guidance on your website tells children how great puberty blockers are,” Miller told Becerra. “I want to stop people like you that are forcing these non-reversible treatments on children.”
🚨After attempting to lie, HHS Secretary Becerra says the quiet part out loud. Joe Biden’s government will withhold funds from religious hospitals that refuse to provide sex-change operations for young children. pic.twitter.com/pEX4LC82TF
— Rep. Mary Miller (@RepMaryMiller) May 15, 2024
In April, the Education Department unveiled new Title IX regulations to prohibit schools from enforcing blanket bans on trans-identifying males in girls’ sports set to take effect in August.
Title IX is the 1972 federal civil rights law prohibiting sex-based discrimination at schools receiving federal funding.
The Biden administration’s new regulations will apply to all public K-12 schools, colleges, and universities that receive federal funding.
The new rules state that schools that receive federal funding may not ban biological males in girls’ sports wholesale, but they may exclude them on a case-by-case basis.
“Sex-related criteria” at schools that would limit or ban a trans-identifying student from playing on the team of their preferred gender must meet two standards. First, the criteria must be related to an “important educational objective,” and second, the criteria must also “minimize harms” to the trans-identified student.
Preventing sports-related injuries would be an example of an “important educational objective,” the department noted.
High school girls have been injured playing with trans-identifying males. Last year in North Carolina, a female high school volleyball player suffered severe trauma to her head and neck after a trans-identifying male player spiked a volleyball that hit her head.
Another example of an “important educational objective” would be “fairness in competition.”
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Female athletes at high schools and colleges in several states have spoken out against competing against biological males.
Since the rules were announced, at least nine states have filed lawsuits against the administration over its new Title IX rules, which appear to conflict with laws in several states restricting trans-identifying students from playing on girls’ teams or using girls’ facilities.
Several other congresswomen, including Representatives Elise Stefanik (R-NY), Anna Paulina Luna (R-FL), and Education and the Workforce Committee Chairwoman Virginia Foxx (R-NC), voiced their support for the bill.
“I’m proud to support Representative Mary Miller’s legislation to block the Biden Administration’s radical efforts to roll back women’s rights and undo President Trump’s policies that ensure every American receives due process under the law,” Stefanik said.
