Controversial Transgender Athlete Ban Passes House with Zero Democratic Support

House Republicans passed a bill that restricts transgender students from playing on women’s sports teams, amending Title IX to define sex as based solely on a person’s reproductive biology and genetics at birth. The bill has no chance of becoming law as it is likely to stall in the Democrat-controlled Senate, and President Joe Biden has already announced that he would veto the bill if it were to reach his desk. Several Democratic and civil rights groups supporting transgender students slammed the bill’s passage as a political attack under the guise of protecting women’s sports.