The U.S. House voted along party lines in favor of a joint resolution to reverse the Biden Administration’s recent expansion of protections for transgender student athletes, which is scheduled to go into effect Aug. 1.
The vote on House Joint Resolution 165 was 210 to 205.
Alaska’s Rep. Mary Peltola skipping out on the vote so she could smoke fish in Bethel for her freezer this winter. Bethel observers say she has been cutting and smoking salmon. She also skipped out on a vote to ensure that illegal aliens are not voting in federal elections.
The Biden reinterpretation of Title IX, finalized this spring, allows boys and men who “identify” as females to enter spaces reserved for girls, such as locker rooms and bathrooms in schools across the country. Biden’s rewrite is now the subject of numerous lawsuits from conservative groups and attorneys general, including Alaska’s Treg Taylor.
Republican Rep. Mary Miller of Illinois, who was the lead sponsor on the resolution, said, “It’s a great day for our daughters and granddaughters, who deserve protection from Biden’s radical attempt to force men into their private spaces & athletics.”
Miller, when she introduced the resolution, said, “Joe Biden is undermining years of progress women have made in securing their rights under Title IX. For more than half a century, Title IX has protected women and girls, ensuring they have equal opportunities in education. However, the Biden Administration is putting our girls at risk by allowing men to access women 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.”
