Senate Democrats betrayed women and girls, including their own constituents, on Monday. Despite overwhelming public support for female-only sports and locker rooms, including among registered Democrats, not a single Democrat voted for the Protection of Women and Girls in Sports Act.
This eminently sensible and straightforward piece of legislation would have defined the word “sex” accurately in Title IX of the Education Amendments of 1972 and prohibited male athletes from competing in female-only athletics at educational institutions funded under Title IX. It passed in the House of Representatives in 2023 but did not advance in the Senate that year.
Senate Democrats betrayed women and girls, including their own constituents, on Monday. Despite overwhelming public support for female-only sports and locker rooms, including among registered Democrats, not a single Democrat voted for the Protection of Women and Girls in Sports Act.
It passed again in the House of Representatives in January of this year, with two Democrats in support, and came to a cloture vote in the Senate on Monday. Not a single Senate Democrat voted yes, and the bill failed to obtain the necessary number of votes to advance.
