House Passes Bill Barring Transgender Athletes From Women’s Sports

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House Passes Bill Barring Transgender Athletes From Women’s Sports — House Speaker Kevin McCarthy (R-Calif.) speaks during an event to celebrate the House passing The Protection of Women and Girls In Sports Act outside the U.S. Capitol in Washington on April 20, 2023. Chip Somodevilla/Getty Images

Jackson Richman

Reporter

Janice Hisle

Senior Reporter

4/20/2023|Updated: 4/23/2023

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The House of Representatives approved legislation on April 20 that would prohibit taxpayer-funded institutions from allowing transgender athletes to compete in women’s and girls’ sports in schools.

The vote tally fell along party lines, 219–203.

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Jackson Richman is a Washington correspondent for The Epoch Times. In addition to Washington politics, he covers the intersection of politics and sports/sports and culture. He previously was a writer at Mediaite and Washington correspondent at Jewish News Syndicate. His writing has also appeared in The Washington Examiner. He is an alum of George Washington University.