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

Title IX was designed to give female athletes equality, fairness.

It is not against any group.

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.

We deserve answers. People deserve answers, not rhetoric.

My bill prohibits any school or university that receives Federal funding from allowing biological males from participating in women's sports.

So, you know what? I am a woman, and let me tell you, hear me roar, because I will not stop protecting women.

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

If schools violate the provision of this bill, they lose access to all Federal funding.

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

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.

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…

The cure for antisemitism is not simply knowledge. It is truth.

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

I am for protecting women. We fought very, very long and very hard to protect women.

I thank Ranking Member Lofgren for her very kind and generous words. I can only hope that my constituents in Michigan hear the praise from the ranking member from the great State of California for the work that we do together on the…

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

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