A recurring theme from my Republican colleagues and their witnesses is that trans girls are more likely to injure other players during sports.

if my testimony makes me transphobic, then I believe your opening monologue makes you a misogynist.

While this Committee purports to care about the safety of women, in 2021, when the House voted to reauthorize the Violence Against Women Act, 80 percent of the Republican caucus voted against that law.

While we are considering this bill today, I would remind my colleagues that this legislation is also a part of a comprehensive veterans package being negotiated between the House and Senate Veterans' Affairs Committees. Mr. Speaker, I look…

By allowing biological males to compete in women's sports, we are placing our daughters in danger every time they step onto the field.

Once again, I strongly encourage all Members to support this legislation, and I yield back the balance of my time.

A school that knowingly allows a male athlete to take a spot on a women's team... is denying a female student athletic opportunity.

Once again, I encourage all Members to support this legislation, and I yield back the balance of my time. The SPEAKER pro tempore. The question is on the motion offered by the gentleman from Michigan (Mr. Bergman) that the House suspend…

This is about protecting girls and women. This is about protecting our daughters, our sisters, our nieces, and our granddaughters.

Inclusion cannot be prioritized over safety and fairness.

I want to thank you for your testimony. I know it is heartfelt, and I appreciate it. It means a lot to me, as a mother, as an athlete, as a coach, as a woman.

I am sure you are going to get canceled. I am sure I am going to get canceled. But you know what that tells me? My ladder's on the right wall and I am doing the right thing.

Quite simply, men do not belong in women's sports.

Simply put, this bill will stop the pattern of unremarkable male athletes that switch to women's sports and suddenly come in first place.

So, I just want to be clear, there is not a hidden agenda. It is actually to protect women in women's sports.

If the Biden Administration is successful, it will mean that more women will lose out on academic and athletic opportunities that should have been afforded to them under Title IX.

I love the lip service. I do, and you academics, I love that.

I want to just say that I am greatly concerned that students are being taught to view certain groups as oppressors, and now apparently that includes Jewish people.