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I just voted for the Protection of Women & Girls in Sports Act. It passed without so much as one Democrat vote.

Biological women & girls deserve a level playing field, don’t they? How is it fair when biological women are forced to compete against biological men?

For transgender women, hormone replacement simply CANNOT reverse many of the athletic characteristics of the biological male body, especially after puberty. This includes skeletal size, lung volume, cardiovascular capacity, tendon strength, muscle power, and hand & feet size, just to name a few. That’s not my opinion; it is the widely reported medical assessment of numerous experts.

Friends, nobody’s advocating for the mistreatment of transgender individuals!! But where’s the compassion for the overwhelming majority of female athletes who are... you know... biologically female?

• Where’s the compassion for women who are displaced from the victory stand because they don’t possess the athletic characteristics of a biological male?

• Where’s the compassion for female athletes who lose scholarship slots because a biological male has taken that slot as a transgender woman?

• Where’s the compassion for women who hold athletic records that have (or will soon be) broken by a biological male competing as a transgender woman?

This was one of the easiest votes I’ll have all year in Congress.