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

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…

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…

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.

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

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

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

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

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

Whatever happened to 'I am woman, hear me roar'? What--what--have we lost our minds? I am here to protect women, girls. My God, why do I have to apologize for that?

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

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.

It is not against any group.

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

And what harm will come to our female athletes by redefining 'sex' in Title IX to include gender identity?

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.

I must say I am surprised to hear that my Republican colleagues care so much about protecting the, quote, 'safety, privacy, and opportunities of women,' since their voting record and priorities this Congress shows the opposite.

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