Virginia Foxx - Chairwoman of the Education and the Workforce committee | Official U.S. House headshot
Virginia Foxx - Chairwoman of the Education and the Workforce committee | Official U.S. House headshot
WASHINGTON– Education and the Workforce Committee Chairwoman Virginia Foxx (R-NC) joined Speaker Mike Johnson (R-LA), former Secretary of Education Betsy DeVos, former NCAA swimmer and advocate Riley Gaines, and International Women’s Forum chairwoman Heather Higgins to celebrate the 52nd anniversary of the enactment of Title IX and discuss the importance of protecting the law from what they describe as attacks by the Biden administration.
Chairwoman Foxx reflected on the significance and original intent of Title IX:
“I remember when Title IX was passed in 1972. I was working at Appalachian State University at the time, and it was passed in a bipartisan way. By the way, we had President Nixon as president, the Democrats were in control of Congress. And that was a time when Democrats knew what the difference was between a man and a woman. I mean, times have changed. We understood the inherent unfairness of women not having equal opportunity. Women deserved to have scholarships and to be able to compete in their own sports and to be treated fairly. That's the whole idea behind Title IX.”
Foxx criticized recent changes proposed by the Biden administration regarding Title IX:
“We’ve lost that mutual understanding by allowing biological men in women’s sports and giving biological men access to women’s private spaces. Democrats tell us all the time, ‘follow the science.’ What about the science that shows us that a man can’t be a woman and a woman can’t be a man?”
She outlined actions Congress is taking to address these issues:
“We passed Greg Stuebe's bill out of the Education and [the] Workforce Committee. It is H.R.734, Protecting Women and Girls in Sports.… We want to protect the rights that women won in Title IX. And we have passed out of Committee Representative Miller's Congressional Review Act, which we will bring to the Floor, I hope soon. The Congressional Review Act would roll back these new rules put out by the Biden administration, that negate most of the work that was done under Secretary DeVos which was extraordinarily thoughtful, well done, and didn't just protect women and girls in sports.”
To watch full panel discussion click here.
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