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WASHINGTON, D.C. — On April 20, 2023 , House Majority Leader Steve Scalise (R-La.), joined House Speaker Kevin McCarthy (R-CA), Republican Whip Tom Emmer (R-Minn.), Education and the Workforce Committee Chairwoman Virginia Foxx (R-N.C.), Congressman Greg Steube (R-Fla.), female athletes, and several House Republicans to celebrate the passage of H.R. 734, the Protection of Women and Girls in Sports Act. Leader Scalise praised the bill as an important, commonsense measure to protect the integrity and fairness of competition in women’s sports.   

Leader Scalise’s remarks: 

“This is another team effort where House Republicans are standing up for people who just believe in basic fairness, and today's vote should have been a unanimous vote. Yet, regardless of what political games people play up here, when people go back home and they're in their schools – they're competing – they just want to compete on a level playing field. 

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“The whole intention of Title IX was to create more opportunities for women to compete in sports. And yet, it undermines the very fabric when you say a biological man can just play in a woman's sport if they choose to. And I think we've seen over and over again how that just flies in the face of common sense  – that it just doesn't allow for that same ability for the competition that we've gotten so used to, and that we enjoy seeing. 

“We want women to be able to enjoy those same opportunities in sports, whether it's at the high school level, the college level, or even the professional level. And so we came together today and this is something that [Congressman] Steube, Chairwoman Foxx, [and] so many others have worked on to say, ‘Let's just make sure that if women want to compete in sports, men can compete in sports, but men shouldn’t be able to compete in women's sports.’ It's why you have women's sports. “So it was an important vote today. I think that you saw a lot of really strong arguments for why we need to re-inject common sense back into this debate.”

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