WASHNGTON—Subcommittee on Health Care and Financial Services Chairwoman Lisa McClain (R-Mich.) immediately opened a subcommittee listening to titled “The Importance of Protecting Female Athletics and Title IX.” Subcommittee Chairwoman McClain opened the listening to by discussing how as a substitute of defending the hard-fought protections that Title IX secured, the Biden Administration has proposed guidelines that can drastically alter Title IX and put leftist politics earlier than ladies and women.

Below are Subcommittee Chairwoman McClain’s remarks as ready for supply.

Men don’t belong in ladies’s sports activities. Let me say it yet another time. Men don’t belong in ladies’s sports activities. Period.

The easy undeniable fact that this must be stated out loud is a tragic reflection of the place the Left is on this situation.

There needs to be no debate about this. 

However, we’re right here immediately as a result of the Biden Administration is selecting to disregard the reality.

The reality is that permitting organic males to compete in ladies’s sports activities is essentially unfair.

It can be unsafe.

Scientific proof affirms that organic men and women have unchangeable physiological variations attributable to their intercourse.

Some of those variations profit males athletically.

For instance, males sometimes have larger muscle mass, lung capability, and bone density than females. 

All these traits give males a aggressive benefit over females.

This is why ladies ought to compete towards ladies and men ought to compete towards males.

This is what Title IX was designed to guard.

By permitting organic males to compete in ladies’s sports activities, we’re putting our daughters in peril every time they step onto the sphere.

This is a listening to about defending ladies.  Period.  That’s it.

I’m pissed off as I proceed to listen to about feminine athletes who’re injured by organic males competing in ladies’s sports activities.

I’m a mom to 2 daughters.  Any dad or mum will inform you that their most sacred accountability is defending their kids.

That is why immediately’s listening to is about defending our daughters, our nieces, our granddaughters.

It is time for us to get off the sideline and rise up for them.

Unfortunately, the Biden Administration has proven that it’s placing leftist politics earlier than ladies and women.

In a fraudulent effort to be inclusive, the Biden Administration is sacrificing equality.

Instead of defending the hard-fought protections that Title IX secured, the Biden Administration has proposed two guidelines that can drastically alter Title IX.

The Biden Administration’s proposed guidelines redefine “sex” to incorporate “gender identity” and develop Title IX protections to organic males.

Protections that have been created and applied for ladies and women.

If the Biden Administration is profitable, it’s going to imply that extra ladies will lose out on the educational and athletic alternatives that ought to have been afforded to them below Title IX.

Last 12 months, we celebrated the fiftieth anniversary of Title IX’s enactment.

For the final 50 years, we have now seen Title IX’s success in securing equality for ladies throughout the nation.

We can not permit this Administration to dismantle the rights and protections that girls fought so onerous to attain.

We should defend ladies and women, and I encourage my colleagues  on either side of the aisle to remain centered on this situation all through the listening to.

To our panel, thanks for being right here earlier than the Subcommittee immediately.  I’m trying ahead to having this essential dialogue with you all.