US EditionHouse Republicans push for debate on Save Women's Sports bill
UNITED STATES, JUL 8 – House Republicans push for debate on bill aiming to enforce biological sex definitions in sports amid federal threats to cut California's funding for policy violations, officials say.
- House Republicans led by Rep. Barbara Gleim of Carlisle pushed to force a floor vote on Senate Bill 9, the Save Women's Sports Act, in Pennsylvania in 2025.
- The bill, stalled in the Democratic-controlled House Education Committee, would require schools to restrict sports participation by biological sex, effectively banning transgender female athletes from girls' sports.
- The measure passed the GOP-led Senate with unanimous Republican support and five Democratic votes, while Democrats re-referred it to the Health Committee to avoid a floor vote.
- Advocates assert the bill protects girls' sports opportunities, citing 27 states with similar bans and Trump's 2020 executive order, while opponents call it discriminatory and damaging, noting related Supreme Court cases and studies linking such laws to negative impacts on transgender youth.
- This political standoff suggests continued division over transgender athlete participation and legal scrutiny ahead as Pennsylvania and the nation navigate the evolving status of women's sports protections.
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Pennsylvania Democrats Stall Bill to Ban Men from Competing in Women's Sports for K-12 and College Institutions
Pennsylvania House Democrats are attempting to stop the bipartisan Senate-approved Save Women’s Sports Act by bizarrely sending the bill out of the Education Committee to the Health Committee in what Republicans exposed as a rule manipulation to disenfranchise female athletes.
Pa. House Republicans tried to force a vote on a transgender athlete ban. Democrats blocked it. - Philadelphia Gay News
By Ian Karbal Members of the Republican minority in the state House tried to force a vote on a bill that would ban transgender athletes from participating in women’s sports in public schools and publicly funded colleges. But Democrats on the House Education Committee blocked them. The bill had already passed the GOP-controlled Senate, with five Democrats joining every Republican in supporting it. After crossing over to the Democratic-controlled …
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Pa. House Dems thwart GOP attempt to force vote on 'Save Women's Sports Act'
HARRISBURG — A procedural push by Pennsylvania House Republicans failed to force floor debate and a vote on a bill to keep transgender women from competing in women’s sports when the Democratic majority stalled the effort.
Why Won’t Adam Gray Keep Men Out of Women’s Sports?
The U.S. Department of Education just told California that its radical policy allowing biological males to compete in girls’ sports violates federal law under Title IX. Instead of following the law, California Democrats are doubling down, putting politics ahead of fairness, safety, and common sense. Why won’t Adam Gray keep men out of women’s sports? “Democrat Adam Gray’s cowardly silence makes it clear: he cares more about appeasing the radica…
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