{"database": "press", "table": "releases", "rows": [["https://www.blackburn.senate.gov/2024/9/issues/women/senate-democrats-block-blackburn-s-effort-to-establish-american-girls-in-sports-day", "Senate Democrats Block Blackburn\u2019s Effort to Establish \u201cAmerican Girls in Sports Day\u201d", "2024-09-17", "2024", "2024-09", "Republican", "Senate", "TN", "Marsha Blackburn", "B001243", "www.blackburn.senate.gov", "blackburn", "https://www.blackburn.senate.gov/news/cc8c80c1-d564-4bbb-93a4-f1d772346ae0", "scraper", "WASHINGTON, D.C. \u2013 On the Senate floor, U.S. Senator Marsha Blackburn (R-Tenn.) urged her Senate colleagues to stand with female athletes by designating October 10 as \u201cAmerican Girls in Sports Day.\u201d Senate Democrats blocked the resolution in favor of the Biden-Harris administration\u2019s radical agenda to allow biological males to compete in women\u2019s sports by dismantling Title IX. Nearly 70% of Americans agree, athletes should only be allowed to compete on sports teams that correspond with the sex they were assigned at birth.\n\nSenator Blackburn\u2019s resolution is co-sponsored by 37 Senators and has been endorsed by many key advocates for female athletes, including Riley Gaines, Caitlyn Jenner, and Sage Steele.\n\nClick hereto download video of Sen. Blackburn discussing \u201cAmerican Girls in Sports Day\u201d and here to view it.\n\nREMARKS AS PREPARED:\n\nAthletics Create Opportunities and Offer Life Lessons for Young Women\n\n\u201cAcross our country, more than 3 million female high school and college athletes compete, practice, and train every day to achieve athletic success.\n\nFor many of these young women and girls, their sports are more than just a game: They are life-long passions that improve their physical health, boost their self-confidence, and teach them the leadership skills to succeed on and off the field.\n\nIn short, women\u2019s athletics has done incredible things for women.\u201d\n\nThe Biden-Harris Administration Waged War on Women\u2019s Sports by Overhauling Title IX\n\n\u201cWhich is why it is so deeply disturbing to see the Biden-Harris administration wage a war on women\u2019s sports.\n\nIn their crosshairs: Title IX\u2014 the landmark civil rights law that codified protections on the basis of sex.\n\nBy requiring equal resources for training, recruitment, and scholarships for female athletic programs, Title IX led to an explosion of women\u2019s participation in sports.\n\nIn fact, since 1972, the year Title IX became law, the number of female college athletes increased by a factor of seven, while the number of female high school athletes has increased more than ten-fold.\n\nYet for years we have seen this administration undermine the very Title IX provisions that enabled greater women\u2019s participation in sports.\n\nIn 2022\u2014 on the 50th anniversary of Title IX\u2014the Department of Education announced new rules that force schools to allow biological males to play on female teams.\n\nAnd just in April, the administration redefined \u2018discrimination\u2019 to allow biological men to use women-only locker rooms and bathrooms.\n\nAre Tennesseans and the American people really expected to believe that this is okay?\n\nYou do not need to be a biologist to understand that there are fundamental biological differences between men and women.\n\nAnd when it comes to sports, these differences undermine fair play, erase women\u2019s hard-earned achievements, and put female athletes in danger.\u201d\n\nBlackburn Commends Young Women for Bravely Speaking Out Against the Biden-Harris Administration\u2019s Radical Agenda\n\n\u201cThankfully, many young women are bravely speaking out against the Biden-Harris administration\u2019s radical agenda, including Tennessee\u2019s Riley Gaines.\n\nIn 2021, Riley was forced to compete against\u2014and share a locker room with\u2014a biological male during the NCAA Women's Swimming & Diving Championships.\n\nDuring the 200-meter competition, Riley tied for fifth with her male competitor. But when Riley went to the award ceremony to pick up her trophy, officials told Riley that they were giving the fifth-place trophy to the biological male.\n\n\u2018Yours will be coming in the mail,\u2019 they told Riley.\n\nThis should never happen in the United States of America.\u201d\n\nBlackburn Urges Senate Colleagues to Stand with Female Athletes to Establish \u201cAmerican Girls in Sports Day\u201d\n\n\u201cNow more than ever, Congress should stand with the female athletes fighting for fair play and celebrate the incredible contributions women have made to the world of sports.\n\nThat\u2019s why I\u2019m calling for unanimous consent for my resolution to establish October 10 as \u2018American Girls in Sports Day.\u2019\n\nOf course, we picked that date for a special reason: As the 10th day of the 10th month, October 10 is represented by the roman numerals XX\u2014the same numerals of the female sex chromosome.\n\nIn the last 50 years, female athletes have gone from the sidelines to the center stage of competition. As we continue to fight for women\u2019s participation in sports, we must keep in mind what is at stake\u2014and the \u2018American Girls in Sports Day\u2019 resolution will help ensure that happens.\n\nI urge all my colleagues to support it.\u201d\n\nRELATED:", 1, "2026-03-30T01:40:41Z", "2026-04-07T21:43:57Z"]], "columns": ["url", "title", "date", "year", "month", "party", "chamber", "state", "member_name", "bioguide_id", "domain", "scraper", "source", "date_source", "text", "has_text", "collected_at", "updated_at"], "primary_keys": ["url"], "primary_key_values": ["https://www.blackburn.senate.gov/2024/9/issues/women/senate-democrats-block-blackburn-s-effort-to-establish-american-girls-in-sports-day"], "units": {}, "query_ms": 1.543091842904687, "source": "dwillis/congress-press", "source_url": "https://github.com/dwillis/congress-press", "license": "MIT", "license_url": "https://github.com/dwillis/congress-press/blob/main/LICENSE"}