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Protection of Women and Girls in Sports Act of 2025

Floor Speech

Date: Jan. 14, 2025
Location: Washington, DC

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Ms. ADAMS. Mr. Speaker, I rise because this bill threatens the principles that make our schools and sports fields places of opportunity.

This bill does not protect anyone. It unjustly targets transgender women and girls under the guise of fairness, but exclusion is not fairness, Mr. Speaker. Fairness is ensuring that every athlete can participate, grow, and thrive.

For this reason, at the appropriate time, I will offer a motion to recommit this bill back to the committee. If the House rules permitted, I would have offered the motion with an important amendment to this bill.

Mr. Speaker, Title IX was originally passed to address the structural imbalances between men's and women's sports, disparities that continue to pose an actual threat to women and girls in sports today.

My amendment, based on my Fair Play for Women Act, would strengthen Title IX enforcement and protect all women by increasing accountability, transparency, and training in athletic programs.

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Ms. ADAMS. Mr. Speaker, I hope my colleagues will join me in voting for the motion to recommit.

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Ms. ADAMS. Mr. Speaker, I have a motion to recommit at the desk.

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Ms. ADAMS. Mr. Speaker, on that I demand the yeas and nays.

The yeas and nays were ordered.

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