Senate Dems Need to Vote YES on the Protection of Women and Girls in Sports Act

And I think they know it

February 25, 2025

First, if you’re in need of a great explainer about what’s going on with the recent Executive Orders concerning matters related to sex and gender (and the litigation about them), check out this great Substack piece by Glenna Goldis from yesterday (and follow her at @glennagoldis if you’re on X).

More to the point of this post, there is a bill called the Protection of Women and Girls in Sports Act that passed in the House of Representatives once in 2023 and again in January of this year. On the day the House took up the matter for a vote in 2023, I published an article titled “Why progressives should support the Protection of Women and Girls in Sports Act.” I explained:

Today, the U.S. House of Representatives is poised to take the historic step of passing the Protection of Women and Girls in Sports Act of 2023. The U.S. chapter of Women’s Declaration International, of which I serve as president, is proud to support the bill.

In the 1960s and 1970s, second-wave feminists, who leaned to the Left, fought hard for women’s rights. They opened rape crisis centers and domestic violence shelters (run by women) for women fleeing male violence. They won many property rights for women, which allowed women to leave oppressive marriages. And they fought for abortion access.

There’s a very good reason why second-wave feminists had to fight for women’s rights: it was because women didn’t have those things before. And the reason women didn’t have those things before was because they were women. Today, all of that is being thrown out the window because of the absurd fallacy of “gender identity.”

One of feminists’ most stunning accomplishments was the enactment of Title IX, which was designed to end discrimination against women in the educational arena. Its implementing regulations permit the separation of the sexes under certain circumstances.

The Protection of Women and Girls in Sports Act of 2023 is a powerful piece of legislation that would bolster Title IX by explicitly protecting women and girls in athletics, and political progressives should support it. So why aren’t they?

Our society has been taught a vicious and unscientific lie: that some men can be women, and that some women can be men, on the basis of their “gender identity.” Democratic Party leadership, at the state and federal levels, is one of the greatest perpetrators of this lie.

[I no longer serve as president of WDI USA, though I remain a loyal volunteer.]

That year, not a single House Democrat voted yes. When it came to a vote in the House in January of this year, two House Democrats voted yes.

The bill could come to the floor of the Senate at any time. Last week, Australian TERF extraordinaire Sall Grover and I headed to the Capitol to tell the Senate Democrats why they should vote yes if it does (Kath Deves was with us for one day of visits as well). We visited the offices of every single Senate Democrat. We spoke with members of their staff. We distributed materials explaining why they should vote yes. You can check out videos and photos we took to document several of our office visits on my X feed.

Read on to learn more about our visits and why I think the Senate Dems know they’re in trouble.

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