(14 Jan 2025)
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Washington, DC -14 January 2025
1. Wide of House Speaker Mike Johnson, others at press conference
2. Cutaway of audience
3. SOUNDBITE (English) Rep. Mike Johnson, Speaker of the House:
"House Republicans have yet again stood up for women. This is a commitment that we have made because it comports with what is right and what is common sense. We know from Scripture and from nature that men are men and women are women, and men cannot become women. It’s sad that we have to say that it’s a matter of biology. It’s how we’re made. And if we try to ignore that or to undo it, we do so at our peril and to the detriment of our daughters."
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4. SOUNDBITE (English) Rep. Mike Johnson, Speaker of the House:
"It’s estimated that more than 700 female athletes have been displaced by males in their women’s sporting events, and that has resulted in more than 1000 estimated medals, records and scholarships intended for women going to men. My own daughters competed in sports as they were growing up, and I can only imagine the anger I would feel as a dad if they had their trophies stolen from them. But that’s indeed what many women are facing today. And it’s not just anger, It’s it’s fear. Biological men competing against women also poses a threat to the safety of our girls. It’s dangerous. It’s unfair. It’s a rejection of reality. And it is just plain wrong."But today, the House voted to uphold common sense again. We voted to require all schools receiving federal funds to uphold the original meaning of Title nine and keep biological men out of women’s sports."
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5. SOUNDBITE (English) Riley Gaines, Conservative Activist and Former College Swimmer:
"I’m mad that this is something we have to do and mad that we as women have to beg for equal rights. I’m mad that we have to beg for privacy in areas of undressing, and I’m mad that we have to beg for safety on the court or on the field or walking in the streets at night, for that matter."
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6. SOUNDBITE (English) Riley Gaines, Conservative Activist and Former College Swimmer:
"Men do not belong in women’s sports. And with the House passage of the protection of Women and Girls in Sports Act, we are one step closer as a nation to making sure that not one more male athlete is able to take a trophy, a roster, spot playing time resources, or an opportunity to compete from a woman. The American people will again. We believe that women’s sports are for women. I cannot believe we have to say this, but unfortunately we do. It matters"
7. Wide of press conference following remarks
STORYLINE:
The U.S. House passed a bill, largely along partisan lines, that would ban transgender athletes from competing in women’s and girls sports at schools and other educational institutions that receive federal funds.
The vote was 218-206, with two Democrats joining Republicans in support of the legislation.
Afterward, House Speaker Mike Johnson joined supporters of the bill at a press conference on Capitol Hill.
"House Republicans have yet again stood up for women," Johnson said. "This is a commitment that we have made because it comports with what is right and what is common sense," he said.
The bill, called "The Protection of Women and Girls in Sports Act,’ would bar educational institutions that receive government funding from allowing transgender female athletes to participate in athletic programs or activities “designated for women or girls.”
It would amend Title IX, which prohibits discrimination on the basis of sex at those institutions.
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