HYDE-SMITH CHIDES DEMS OVER TITLE IX FILIBUSTER, HYPOCRISY AT TRUMP SPEECH
In Speech, Miss. Senator Vows to Continue Fight to Protect Women, Girls in Sports
WASHINGTON, D.C. – U.S. Senator Cindy Hyde-Smith (R-Miss.) today chided opponents of legislation to ensure Title IX protections for women and girls in sports, and committed to continuing the fight to pass the bill despite a Democrat filibuster.
Hyde-Smith, along with U.S. Senator James Lankford (R-Okla.) and Pete Ricketts (R-Neb.), delivered floor speeches on Title IX and, more specifically, the filibustered Protection of Women and Girls in Sports Act (S.9). Senate Democrats on Monday stood in unanimous opposition to stop the bill from being considered.
“I find it ironic that the party that wore pink to protest President Trump’s address last night – claiming his policies harm women – is the same party where not one member voted to protect women in sports this week. If it were not so serious, it would almost be laughable,” Hyde-Smith said.
“This is not a matter of partisanship, but of common sense and fairness. It is a matter of equal opportunity for all. This is the message we must continue to amplify in Congress, as we work to ensure the future protections of Title IX remain intact,” the Senator added.
Hyde-Smith has argued consistently against the Biden administration’s policies to reinterpret Title IX to allow biological males to compete in women’s sports, maintaining that those actions strip away protections explicitly intended to ensure that women and girls receive equal and fair opportunities.
“After watching the Biden administration claw away at the integrity of Title IX for four years, I am proud to stand with my colleagues and President Trump in fighting to restore the protections that Title IX was always meant to provide to girls and women in sports," Hyde-Smith said. “Despite the attempts of our colleagues across the aisle to defend their war on Title IX, the American people overwhelmingly agree on a fundamental point: biologically male athletes should not be allowed to compete in women’s sports or use women’s locker rooms.”
“We must pass legislation that protects female athletes and preserves the integrity of women’s sports. To suggest that biological females and transgender women are the same in all respects, particularly in the context of athletic competition, is to set women and girls back, not forward,” the Senator said.
The Protection of Women and Girls in Sports Act, introduced by U.S. Senator Tommy Tuberville (R-Ala.), would ensure Title IX provisions treat gender as “recognized based solely on a person’s reproductive biology and genetics at birth.” It would also ban recipients of federal funding from operating, sponsoring, or facilitating athletic programs that permit a male to participate in a women’s sporting event.
Read Hyde-Smith’s full remarks here.
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