January 15, 2025 11:33 AM UTC

Lowering the Price of Eggs by Banning Transgender Athletes

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• by: Colorado Pols

House Republicans are hard at work this week in Washington D.C. cutting the price of eggs and other critical household items by barring transgender athletes.

As The New York Times reports:

A divided House on Tuesday approved legislation that aims to bar transgender women and girls from participating in school athletic programs designated for female students, as Republicans sought to wring political opportunity from a social issue that helped them win the 2024 elections.

The bill, approved almost entirely along party lines on a vote of 218 to 206, would prohibit federal funding from going to K-12 schools that include transgender students on women’s sports teams. It faces a steep challenge in the Senate, where seven Democrats would have to join Republicans to move it past a filibuster and to a final vote…

…Democrats, who dubbed the bill the “Child Predator Empowerment Act,” said it was a dangerous invasion of privacy for young girls that would put them at greater risk. They also pointed to the bill as the latest example of an unhealthy fixation among Republicans with trying to restrict the rights of transgender individuals, when they could be spending their time passing legislation to create jobs or reduce the prices of groceries.

Representative Jim McGovern, Democrat of Massachusetts, said bluntly that the bill was an example of Republicans’ “creepy obsession with your kids’ private parts” and that it would fuel more hate against a small and vulnerable population of transgender children that already faces higher rates of bullying and mental health issues.

Colorado freshman Rep. Jeff Crank (R-Colorado Springs) was a co-sponsor of HR 28, the “Protection of Women and Girls in Sports Act of 2025.” All four Republicans from Colorado — Crank, Lauren Boebert, Jeff Hurd, and Gabe Evans — voted “YES” on this critical legislation.

After the vote, House Speaker Mike Johnson used the Bible to defend this anti-trans legislation:

“We know from Scripture, and from nature, that men are men and women are women, and men cannot become women,” Johnson said in a news conference immediately after the vote…

…Johnson said he was referring to a passage in Genesis, and when asked…how he responded to different interpretations of that passage by Christians, including traditions that ordain openly transgender people, he said the Bible was “pretty clear.”

“Well, it goes back to the first book — Genesis: male and female, he made them,” Johnson said. “I’m not sure there’s another interpretation, but everybody’s open to interpreting Scripture however they will.”

Indeed.

As The Washington Post explains, House Republicans are planting a flag that banning transgender athletes from participating in sports ranks as one of their #1 issues:

The measure was last debated in 2023, when not a single Democrat voted yes. Since then, Republicans have repeatedly pressed the matter as a threat to girls’ and women’s sports, spending at least $111 million on political ads making the case last year…

…“Republicans fearmonger about the trans community to divert attention from the fact they have no real solutions to help everyday Americans,” said Rep. Suzanne Bonamici (D-Oregon). [Pols emphasis]

We’re sure House Republicans will take up the issue of grocery prices next.

[Insert eye roll]