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On the recordJuly 10, 2024
Madam Speaker, I yield 2 minutes to the gentlewoman from Michigan (Mrs. McClain), a member of the Committee on Education and the Workforce. Mrs. McCLAIN. Madam Speaker, today, our girls are under attack. Our daughters are under attack. I ask this: What about their freedoms? What about their rights? Do they not have any rights? Do they not have any freedoms? I say they do. I am here to protect women's and girls' rights and freedoms. For more than 50 years, Title IX has ensured our daughters have access to quality education and athletic programs. Now, President Biden and his bureaucrats at the Department of Education, are hell-bent on erasing those vital protections for our girls. This rule to redefine sex discrimination on the basis of gender identity will force schools to provide biological men, who claim to be women, access to women's locker rooms. Yes, that is the truth. That is not fear. That is the truth. They will also be allowed to go to their same bathrooms. What about our daughters' rights? What about our daughters' freedoms? What about their rights? What about girls' rights and women's rights to have safety and feel secure? Do they not have any rights anymore? They should not be an expense at all. This is absolutely ridiculous. You want to talk about us fearmongering? If these allegations that we are talking about right now wouldn't be true, he wouldn't have had to redefine the law without congressional consent. He did it with a stroke of his pen.…
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