Things are heating up in Congress leading up to President Donald Trump’s inauguration on Monday. The bills are going through the process and are obviously intended to ensure that President Trump is not bored in his first days in office.
One of the bills is the Protection of Women and Girls in Sports Act, which passed with a bipartisan vote in the House of Representatives – two Democrats voted for the bill.
Sorry, Democrats, but that is exactly what non-partisan means.
Two House Democrats voted alongside Republican lawmakers to ban athletes born male from participation in school sports teams for girls.
The Protecting Women and Girls in Sports Act, led by Rep. Greg Steube (R-Florida), would amend federal law to require student-athletes to participate on school sports teams consistent with their birth gender.
Reps. Henry Cuellar, D-Texas, and Vicente Gonzales, D-Texas, were the only Democrats to vote for the bill when it passed by a vote of 218-206. Rep. Don Davis, D-N.C., voted “present.”
All three won re-election by razor-thin margins in districts that have trended redder over the years.
Nitpick: “Gender” is a linguistic term; The relevant term here is “sex,” and it is not “assigned” or even determined at birth, but rather is determined genetically at conception. And yes, unlike a certain Supreme Court justice I could name, I am a biologist by nature.
With that in mind, notice where these two Democrats are coming from. Leaving aside the fever dreams of liberals, Democrats, and the legacy media (but I repeat), Texas is not going blue. I would rather believe that Representatives Cuellar and Gonzales are voting for this bill out of earnest principles, but it is also very likely that their continued political survival is at stake.
The bill will now head to the Senate, where it will hopefully have similar success.
Republicans in the Senate have already signaled that they want to pass the bill soon.
With any luck, the bill will await President Trump’s signature on Monday. May it be one of many; There has been a massive exercise in banter and incompetence at the White House over the past four years, and there is still much that needs to change.
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Here is the vote count:
But here’s the real question: Why was this bill necessary in the first place?
We deal with this issue again and again, as a nation and as a culture. There are certain facts that are irrefutable and undeniable; Men and boys have physical advantages over women and girls from the start. These are advantages in terms of speed, strength, endurance and the ability to withstand external stress. These are facts, and it is astounding that we are at a point where Congress must codify into law that boys are boys and girls are girls and that school sports must be differentiated accordingly; Otherwise there would have been no need to separate sports by gender at all.
This is the pass we reached. My father, who was a lieutenant and bomber navigator in World War II, always joked that it would take an act of Congress to make him a gentleman. It seems that it takes an act of Congress to recognize that boys are boys and girls are girls.
