And 6% said it was the most important issue of all, while 44% said it was “very important.”
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Rep. Greg Steube, R-Fla., celebrated Friday’s vote and will be reintroducing the bill included in the rules package, the Protection of Women and Girls in Sports Act.
This bill ensures that biological females compete against other biological females in women’s sports that are operated or sponsored by a recipient of federal funding.
A national exit poll conducted by the CWA legislative action committee found that 70% of moderate voters saw the issue of “Donald Trump’s opposition to transgender boys and men playing girls’ and women’s sports and of transgender boys and men using girls’ and women’s bathrooms” as important to them.
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Conservative advocacy group Heritage Action for America released a statement Friday celebrating the vote.
The new Republican-controlled Congress will hear arguments on a bill that would seek to prohibit transgender athletes from competing in women’s sports in its first 100 days after voting yes on a new rules package Friday.
“No little girl should see the most powerful politicians in the world vote to put men in her locker room. Not in the Land of the Free. It’s cowardice and disgusting. But it’s the reality of our political landscape. Last Congress, the House passed similar legislation on strict party lines. One party voted that women deserve private spaces, one didn’t.”
The 119th Congress approved the new rules package after re-electing Mike Johnson as House speaker. A bill to address the issue of gender identity in sports was listed as the top priority.
“A bill to amend the Education Amendments of 1972 to provide that for purposes of determining compliance with title IX of such Act in athletics, sex shall be recognized based solely on a person’s reproductive biology and genetics at birth,” the first point in the final section of the package states.
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