[Congressional Record Volume 169, Number 65 (Wednesday, April 19, 2023)] [House] [Pages H1881-H1884] From the Congressional Record Online through the Government Publishing Office [www.gpo.gov]
Date: 2023-04-19
Chamber: HOUSE
Mr. OWENS: I rise in support of the Protection of Women and Girls in Sports Act. Since Title IX became law 50 years ago, women and girls have shattered records, broken barriers, and blazed a trail for generations of female athletes to dream big and to rise to new heights in athletics. As a former athlete, I know firsthand the far-reaching, profound impact of sports participation on physical, academic, and social development. In a recent survey, over half of the women executives of major U.S. companies attributed their success to participating in collegiate athletics. The regressive, unscientific, and unsound policy of the Biden administration to allow biological men to compete against women strips the rights and dignity of every woman to safe and fair competition in sports. The science is clear. Men are physiologically faster, stronger, and bigger than women. Biological men develop larger hearts and lungs, denser bones, and stronger muscles. This is common sense, my friends, and we all instinctively know this. Putting a stronger, faster, bigger man against women turns back the clock on this remarkable accomplishment of female athletes by half a century. Who also suffers from this attack on womanhood? Young men who have already been damaged for decades of progressive left policies that have destroyed the nuclear family. Mr. Speaker, 80 percent of these urban men no longer have a father who will teach them their primary job as a man is to respect and protect womanhood, that his greatest success and legacy will be leaving his children and wife a good name. Instead, you see in these urban, crime-ridden Democrat cities young men who have lost hope and as a result are losing their souls. Turn on the TV. In the same cities where these urban city political leaders are closing their eyes to sexualization of children as young as 3 or 4 years old, where confusing our children about gender fluidity is at its heights, you will see gangs of young men with no respect for women as they bully, use, abuse, and beat up girls and women and, with no shame, boast about it as they post their insidious attacks on TikTok. No hope, no soul. I'll make a request to those on the other side of the aisle; ask the urban community of Black women what they think of turning men into women, not the elitist Black minority who are married and have a safe life inside their middle-class neighborhood bubble, but the 78 percent of single mothers who are trying to raise and provide for their children solo. Ask them how it is for generations to deal with the absence of good, God-fearing, honest, hardworking, committed, visionary, and courageous men who will stand and sacrifice anything, including their lives, for their wives and children. These women will tell you that they already live in communities where males no longer identify as men. We will not stand by and allow the anti-family, anti-women progressive left to add women to their long list of hopelessness. Our message with this bill is to all women, regardless of your politics, creed, color, background, social status, or religion. The Republican Party will ensure that you and your daughters will never lose hope; that your efforts, your work, and your dreams will never be stolen by an ideology that has driven the party that has lost its way. We promise never to demean your contributions, past and present, your efforts and sacrifice, acknowledged or forgotten, that has helped to forge this great Nation. We start today by defending meritocracy and granting every woman a level playing field of fairness. As the chairman of the Subcommittee on Higher Education and Workforce Development, I am proud to support the Protection of Women and Girls in Sports Act to end the reckless, anti-women, and unfair policies of the Biden White House against female athletes.