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WASHINGTON – Education and the Workforce Committee Chairwoman Virginia Foxx (R-NC) and Speaker Mike Johnson (R-LA) today applaud the House passage of H.J. Res. 165, a Congressional Review Act resolution to overturn the Biden administration’s radical rewrite of Title IX that would erase vital protections for women and girls that have existed for half a century. 
 
When Title IX passed in 1972, it was intended to provide women with equal opportunities in education under the law. It’s now a tool used by the education bureaucracy to enforce inequality and unfairness.
 
“The protections enshrined in Title IX have led women and girls across the nation to achieve innumerable feats for decades—these protections should not be discarded by the Biden administration in an attempt to pander to the radical left,” said Chairwoman Foxx. “The real-world impacts of Biden’s reckless actions mean fewer opportunities for our nation’s girls. It is downright shameful. We will not stand idly by while the integrity—and opportunities for the next generation of America’s women leaders—are placed on the chopping block.”
 
“Unlike Democrats, Republicans know what a woman is, and we know Title IX was written to protect the rights of women,” said Speaker Johnson. “Today, House Republicans stood with American women and girls to override the Biden administration’s radical revision of Title IX that hurts women, undermines women’s rights, allows men to compete in women’s sports, and threatens the safety of women’s-only spaces.”
 
BACKGROUND

On June 26, 2024, Speaker Johnson led a panel discussion on protecting women’s sports and the Biden administration’s attempts to expunge decades of progress for women and girls across America. The event included former U.S. Secretary of Education Betsy DeVos, Heather Higgins of Independent Women’s Forum, and NCAA swimmer Riley Gaines.
 
On April 20, 2023, House Republicans passed H.R. 734, the Protection of Women and Girls in Sports Act of 2023, which amends Title IX to protect the law’s intent and the integrity of women’s athletics.
 
In addition to pushing radical gender ideology, Biden’s rule undermines fundamental rights such as freedom of speech and due process. By expanding the definition of “sexual harassment” and rolling back Trump-era due process protections, the rule undercuts both the presumption of innocence and the guarantees of the First Amendment. The rule is a two-front attack on American families and the Constitution. 

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