McCarthy celebrates House passage of bill protecting women’s sports, says vote fulfills GOP promise

Chad Pergram reports on the House passing a bill that bans transgender competitors in women's sports. The bill is expected to die in the Senate.

Speaker Kevin McCarthy on Thursday celebrated House passage of the Protection of Women and Girls in Sports Act, and said the vote fulfills an important election promise for Republicans.

"Today is a great day for America, for fairness, for families, and most importantly, for female athletes," McCarthy, R-Calif., told reporters. "House Republicans pledged before the last election their commitment to America to protect women and girls in sports. Today, we kept that promise."

The House passed the Protection of Women and Girls in Sports Act, introduced by Rep. Greg Steube, R-Fla., on a 219-203 vote, without any Democrat support.

President Biden has vowed to veto the bill, which would prevent biological males from participating in women's sports at schools across the country.

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Speaker Kevin McCarthy praised House passage of a bill aimed at protecting women's sports from biological males. (Tom Williams/CQ-Roll Call, Inc via Getty Images)

After the vote, McCarthy slammed his Democratic colleagues for not standing up for young women.

"I believe that’s wrong," he said. McCarthy said women and girls have been "forced to compete against biological men."

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"They watched their peers lose out on opportunities they deserved as well," he said, pointing to women who "spoke out for equal opportunity, for privacy, for safety, for truth, for everything the previous generations of women who