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Unbox to Quickly See Which Bills the Republicans Will Propose in the House
In their rules package, they express an agenda
The Republican rules package, dated December 31, proposes 12 bills to be considered in the House of Representatives. This package tells us something about their priorities.
One: Title IX protections for sports will identify an athlete’s sex “solely” by their “reproductive biology and genetics at birth.” If they wanted to chromosome-test athletes, they would have said that. The nonsense way they’ve phrased it — “genetics at birth,” as if genes change — suggests that they’re more interested in maintaining unalterable documentation of biometrics, which is part of state surveillance of everyone.
As I’ve been saying for a few years now, this discourse has never been about sports. Be serious: This is the number one agenda item in the Republican’s list of House bills. It cannot genuinely reflect concern that a teen may skin her knee if another soccer player is an inch taller than she. And if it is pointed out that a trans person might win a sports scholarship, displacing (according to a common narrative) a potential recipient who isn’t trans, lawmakers could more boldly solve this scarcity by funding everyone’s college education.
