Today is Friday, April the 21st, 2023.

Welcome to the Daily Article Podcast.

I'm Chris Elkins with the Denison Forum,

narrating today's article written by Dr. Ryan Denison.

Yesterday, the House of Representatives passed the Protection of Women and Girls in Sports Act, with every Republican voting for it

and every Democrat voting against it. The bill would change the Title IX legislation to specify that

when it comes to athletics, quote, sex shall be recognized based solely on a person's reproductive

biology and genetics at birth."

This change would be significant considering that Title IX was passed in 1972 in order to prohibit,

quote, discrimination on the base of sex in educational programs and activities that receive federal funding, end quote.

At the heart of the debate between the two political parties is who is most in need of protection

from discrimination. House Speaker Kevin McCarthy spoke for the Republicans in arguing that,

quote, there's a reason why there's men's and women's sports. It's about fairness, end

quote. Florida Republican Greg Stubb, one of the bill's sponsors, added that Congress first

past Title IX, quote, to enable women to have an equal playing field in athletics. In quote,

it's telling that even those, It's telling that even those...

It's telling that even those who oppose the bill

have largely abandoned the argument that biological males have no innate advantage

over biological females in athletic competitions.

Instead, they have mostly made the debate about discrimination

against transgender athletes.

As Mark Pocken, a Democrat from Wisconsin, argued, quote, trans kids deserve the right to be equal members of their school communities,

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