Pat Fallon actually said...

"Will it be fair, with such limited numbers of people available to play those sports, if women, biological women, are having to compete on the same field of play with biological males?"

"But we don't seem to have a lot of concern, and, in fact, H.R. 51 was the first bill that we've heard for any statehood for any of our territories, and yet there are 3 million residents of Puerto Rico..."

"I find it disheartening and, quite frankly, insulting that one of my colleagues... said that there was great momentum and interest in D.C. Statehood and then it changed and then it waned."

"I'm in a hyperpartisan environment that, again, is very disheartening, but we'll hope to change the culture some time and some day."