Rep. Greg Steube on Wednesday responded to President Joe Biden’s criticism of the GOP’s effort to protect women’s sports, saying it is a “sad day” when Democrats seek to “erase the rights that women have fought decades to obtain.”
The Sarasota Republican addressed Biden and his administration’s push to force transgender women into biological women’s sports, and claim they are doing so in the name of “fairness.”
Steube has fought this aggressive maneuvering on behalf of the LGBTQ movement by filing the “Protection of Women and Girls in Sports Act of 2023.”
As The Free Press has reported, the bill, introduced in February, ensures that women’s competitive sports funded through the federal law known as Title IX feature biological females competing only against other biological females.
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Last week, Biden announced he would veto Steube’s bill, if it passes Congress. The Democratic president called the measure “discriminatory” and added that it “further stigmatizes these children” and “is completely unnecessary, hurts families and students, and would only put students at greater risk.”
On Wednesday, Steube issued a reply. He opened by quoting several verses of the Bible, beginning with Genesis, which says, “So God created mankind in his own image, in the image of God he created them; male and female he created them. … He created them male and female and blessed them.”
“For thousands of years in human history we have recognized as a species that there are women and there are men, who are obviously biologically different, dare I say, even scientifically different. And even science agrees with this premise,” Steube said.
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“Yet, over the last several years there has been a perversion in our culture by the enemy and the left has completely embraced the lie to erase the lines of gender and to convince you there isn’t really gender and that gender is fluid and can be whatever you want, whenever you want. Again more lies.”
“The left has taken gender identity so far that many on the left today cannot even define what a woman is — for fear of retribution by trans activists,” said Steubem, recalling that Ketanji Brown Jackson, Biden’s appointee to the Supreme Court, couldn’t define the term woman during her confirmation hearing.
“The radical left has adopted completely made up terms that didn’t even exist just a few short years ago, like nonbinary, cisgender, trans male, trans female,” Steube continued.
He noted that some liberals now claim there are 74 genders.
“You can choose from everything from Agender to Omnigender. There is even an Astral gender, which is having a gender identity that feels to be related to space. I don’t even know what that means?” said Steube.
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The congressman added many Democrats not long ago would say such claims were “ridiculous.” Now, however, it is mainstream Democratic ideology.
Steube then said he has three dictionaries in his home, copyrighted, respectively, in 1828, 1959, and 1988. “Shockingly,” he said, “nowhere in any of these dictionaries are the terms, non-binary or trans man or trans woman.”
Webster’s version, he added, points out that “trans man” and “trans female” did not appear in the English language until 1996.
“During the entire history of mankind, you were either male or female until the last few years,” Steube continued. “In worship to the trans movement, the Biden administration has moved at warp speed to infiltrate every aspect of the federal government with trans speak.”
As evidence, he added, Biden seeks to create rules under Title IX “to force biological men into women’s sports in complete defiance of the laws this body passed over 50 years ago.”
Crafted in 1972, Title IX intended to protect women’s sports, to enable women to have an equal playing field in athletics, Steube noted.
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“And in worship to their Trans idols, the administration wants to flip that on its head. It’s insane. Title IX was created for women’s sports and now the left wants to kill it.”
“In them giving homage to the trans movement, they are abandoning women all across the country,” said Steube.
“Parents do not want biological men in locker rooms with their daughters, nor do they believe it’s equitable that a male can compete with women in female athletics. It’s the whole purpose that Title IX was created to begin with.”
Steube then mentioned the website shewon.org, which has chronicled “hundreds” of examples of women who were displaced by men in women’s sports.
As one example, echoing recent comments by Republican Gov. Ron DeSantis, the congressman pointed out Sarasota native Emma Weyant, an all-American and Olympic medal swimmer who in 2022 lost the NCAA title for women to Lia Thomas, a transgender woman.
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“It is a sad day in America when the Democrats have regressed so far backwards that they are willing to erase the rights that women have fought decades to obtain — all to elevate biological males to the top of women’s podiums,” Steube said.
“The integrity of women’s sports must be protected,” he concluded. “If my liberal colleagues truly believe in supporting women’s rights, as they so often tout, they will vote in favor of this bill. I encourage my colleagues on both sides of the aisle to stand for women’s free and fair opportunities in athletics and to stand for truth not lies.”
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