{"id":1832044,"date":"2023-02-01T18:19:02","date_gmt":"2023-02-01T23:19:02","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/?p=1832044"},"modified":"2023-02-01T18:25:00","modified_gmt":"2023-02-01T23:25:00","slug":"house-republicans-pledge-to-protect-womens-sports-in-event-honoring-national-girls-and-women-in-sports-day","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/house-republicans-pledge-to-protect-womens-sports-in-event-honoring-national-girls-and-women-in-sports-day\/","title":{"rendered":"House Republicans Pledge To Protect Women\u2019s Sports In Event Honoring National Girls And Women In Sports Day"},"content":{"rendered":"<aside class=\"mashsb-container mashsb-main mashsb-stretched\"><div class=\"mashsb-box\"><div class=\"mashsb-count mash-medium\" style=\"float:left\"><div class=\"counts mashsbcount\">34<\/div><span class=\"mashsb-sharetext\">SHARES<\/span><\/div><div class=\"mashsb-buttons\"><a class=\"mashicon-facebook mash-medium mash-nomargin mashsb-noshadow\" href=\"https:\/\/www.facebook.com\/sharer.php?u=https%3A%2F%2Fwww.conservativenewsdaily.net%2Fbreaking-news%2Fhouse-republicans-pledge-to-protect-womens-sports-in-event-honoring-national-girls-and-women-in-sports-day%2F\" target=\"_top\" rel=\"nofollow\"><span class=\"icon\"><\/span><span class=\"text\">Facebook<\/span><\/a><a class=\"mashicon-twitter mash-medium mash-nomargin mashsb-noshadow\" href=\"https:\/\/twitter.com\/intent\/tweet?text=&amp;url=https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/?p=1832044&amp;via=ConservNewsDly\" target=\"_top\" rel=\"nofollow\"><span class=\"icon\"><\/span><span class=\"text\">Twitter<\/span><\/a><a class=\"mashicon-subscribe mash-medium mash-nomargin mashsb-noshadow\" href=\"#\" target=\"_top\" rel=\"nofollow\"><span class=\"icon\"><\/span><span class=\"text\">Subscribe<\/span><\/a><div class=\"onoffswitch2 mash-medium mashsb-noshadow\" style=\"display:none\"><\/div><\/div>\n            <\/div>\n                <div style=\"clear:both\"><\/div><\/aside>\n            <!-- Share buttons by mashshare.net - Version: 4.0.47-->\n<p>  Image CreditVictoria Marshall <\/p>\n<p>Washington, D.C. \u2014 Protecting women\u2019s sports is a top priority for House Republicans now that they\u2019ve secured the majority, House Speaker Kevin McCarthy said at a panel held in honor of National Girls and Women in Sports Day at the U.S. Capitol. <\/p>\n<p>\u201cThis is not a partisan issue, this is a fairness issue,\u201d McCarthy stated. <\/p>\n<p lang=\"en\" dir=\"ltr\">Allowing biological boys to compete in women\u2019s sports is wokeness at its worst. It is a way to erase women. It can prevent them from being champions and excelling in sports. <a href=\"https:\/\/t.co\/uOpkxBsHqY\">https:\/\/t.co\/uOpkxBsHqY<\/a><\/p>\n<p>\u2014 Kevin McCarthy (@SpeakerMcCarthy) <a href=\"https:\/\/twitter.com\/SpeakerMcCarthy\/status\/1620844168255000578?ref_src=twsrc%5Etfw\">February 1, 2023<\/a>  <\/p>\n<p>The panel included the Speaker, Congresswoman Jen Kiggans, R-FL, former NCAA champion swimmer and Stand With Women spokesperson Riley Gains. Former NCAA athlete Macy Petty and Young Women For America Ambassador Margo Knorr were also present. Gains also hosted a second panel, which featured Congresswomen Virginia Foxx and Marjorie Taylor Greene (R\u2013GA), and Lisa McClain(R\u2013MI). <\/p>\n<p>In the first panel, participants talked about their experience being sidelined by men in their respective sports and how they want to bring awareness to the issue so women\u2019s sports can be protected.<\/p>\n<p>\u201cIf we, as female athletes, aren\u2019t willing to stick up for ourselves, how can we expect someone else to stick up for us,\u201d Gains spoke to the panel. Gains competed on the University of Kentucky women\u2019s swim team, and during her senior year, she tied with biological male Lia Thomas at the NCAA Championships.<\/p>\n<p>\u201cIt was at this moment that I realized that not only were we being forced to compete against biological men, change in the locker room with biological men \u2014 who, keep in mind, were fully intact with male genitalia \u2026 I realized that we as female athletes were being sidelined to men and reduced to a photo op.\u201d<\/p>\n<p>Petty spoke about her experience competing with biological men for scholarships during college recruitment.<\/p>\n<p>\u201cThese sports reflect our bodies, right?\u201d Petty asked. \u201cMen and women\u2019s sports are separated for a reason, and that reason has nothing to do with ideology or identity but by biology and how we were designed and how we were created.\u201d<\/p>\n<p>Despite their concerns and despite their protests, the NCAA has yet to do anything for female athletes or address their complaints about the inclusion in female spaces of biological men.<\/p>\n<p>\u201cNo one has asked us how we felt,\u201d Gains said. \u201cWe exist to validate a male\u2019s identity.\u201d <\/p>\n<p> Virginia Foxx, Congresswoman, speaks at a panel moderated jointly by Riley Gains and Marjorie Taylor Greene.<\/p>\n<p>The second panel featured all three Congresswomen who championed the cause. <a href=\"https:\/\/www.congress.gov\/bill\/117th-congress\/house-bill\/426\/all-info\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noreferrer noopener\">The Protection of Women and Girls in Sports Act<\/a>A bill that would ban colleges from allowing male biological athletes to compete in women&#8217;s athletic events. The bill was introduced by Rep. Greg Steube\u00a0(R-FL) in 2021. <\/p>\n<p>\u201cI\u2019m appalled at what is being pushed,\u201d Foxx addressed the panel. \u201cI think it\u2019s important that women have the same opportunities that men<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>&#8216;This is not a partisan issue, this is a fairness issue,&#8217; House Speaker Kevin McCarthy said at a panel honoring women&#8217;s sports.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1130,"featured_media":1832047,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_mo_disable_npp":"","fifu_image_url":"https:\/\/cndimages.nyc3.digitaloceanspaces.com\/breaking-news\/wp-content\/uploads\/2021\/01\/IMG_2758-scaled-1.jpg","fifu_image_alt":"","footnotes":""},"categories":[546],"tags":[7660,4864,6060,8552,3653,4107,5500,5508,3756,3847,5605,4694],"class_list":["post-1832044","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-the-federalist","tag-day","tag-event","tag-girls","tag-honoring","tag-house","tag-national","tag-pledge","tag-protect","tag-republicans","tag-sports","tag-women","tag-womens"],"fifu_image_url":"https:\/\/cndimages.nyc3.digitaloceanspaces.com\/breaking-news\/wp-content\/uploads\/2021\/01\/IMG_2758-scaled-1.jpg","_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1832044","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1130"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=1832044"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1832044\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/1832047"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=1832044"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=1832044"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=1832044"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}