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HB 158和HB 1849两项法案将在这个关键摇摆州按生理性别划分校际运动员
作者：查尔斯·克赖茨，福克斯新闻
特朗普政府通过司法部就《Title IX》合规问题起诉明尼苏达州，旨在保护女子体育赛事的公平性。大学垒球运动员肯德尔·科茨马彻分享了自己与生理男性运动员同场竞技的令人心碎的经历，凸显了保护女运动员辛苦换来的成果的必要性。包括肯德尔在内的许多年轻人支持这一立场，要求改革以确保公平竞争。
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周一，宾夕法尼亚州一场关于跨性别体育立法的听证会陷入混乱，共和党人指责民主党试图回避对两项相关法案的投票。
2022年，宾夕法尼亚州成为跨性别体育辩论的焦点，当时宾夕法尼亚大学游泳运动员莉亚·托马斯与包括肯塔基大学的莱利·盖恩斯在内的女子运动员同场竞技。自那以后，保守派一直在全国范围内推动将按生理性别划分校际体育赛事和公共卫生间的规定写入法律。
宾夕法尼亚州众议院司法委员会资深共和党议员告诉福克斯新闻数字频道，官方视频记录的场景显示，民主党主席试图在未充分说明所指法案的情况下，将两项法案“再次提交”给众议院卫生委员会。
委员会 ranking 成员、来自钱伯斯堡的共和党众议员罗布·考夫曼表示，共和党人最终确认这两项法案均涉及按生理性别划分校际运动员，民主党人拒绝就该议题进行辩论，而是将法案提交至另一个委员会以重启流程。
共和党议员、莱利·盖恩斯抨击民主党投票反对《保护女子和女孩体育法案》
2026年1月13日，华盛顿特区，抗议者聚集在最高法院外，反对跨性别运动员参加女子体育赛事，最高法院正在审理相关禁令的标志性案件。（希瑟·迪尔/盖蒂图片社）
“这很耐人寻味。但关键在于，在立法程序中，无论是在众议院全体会议还是任何委员会会议上，议员都会先报出法案编号，然后给出法案标题或简要说明，之后才会进行投票。你不能只凭法案编号就提交法案，”考夫曼在周二接受福克斯新闻数字频道采访时表示。
考夫曼说，众议院司法委员会主席蒂莫西·布里格斯在周一的听证会上就这么做了。
来自普鲁士国王区的民主党议员布里格斯试图快速将两项法案从委员会中移出，他宣布所有民主党议员都将投票支持将法案再次提交，但仅提及了法案编号，未说明具体内容。
共和党人表示，他们并不知晓法案内容，因为布里格斯在试图将法案提交给众议院卫生委员会时，并未宣读法案标题。
布里格斯要求书记员就“将法案提交卫生委员会这一唯一目的”进行点名投票，并补充道“所有民主党议员将投‘赞成’票”。
“我们能不能稍微了解一下这是什么法案？”考夫曼插话道，此时旁听席有人喊道这些法案与儿童体育中的跨性别运动员有关。
HB 158是来自 mechanicsburg 的共和党众议员芭芭·格莱姆提出的《女子体育公平法案》，HB 1849则是来自提奥加的共和党众议员克林特·奥特利提出的相关《父亲捍卫女儿法案》。
布里格斯叹了口气，准备开口，考夫曼继续说道：
“我们连法案标题是什么都不知道，怎么能投票同意再次提交？很明显，你不想让我们知道法案标题是什么，”他笑着说，布里格斯打断他说委员会“时间快不够了”。
考夫曼打趣道，如果他作为主席做出这样的举动，布里格斯所在的民主党党团会“气疯了”。
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在布里格斯和考夫曼再次发生激烈交锋后，这位民主党议员命令书记员对法案进行点名投票，随后公开声称一些共和党议员拒绝投票。
其中一位被点名的众议员、来自洛克黑文的斯蒂芬妮·博罗维奇在得知法案的真实内容后提出反对：
“现在你要替我们决定怎么投票了？”作为格莱姆法案联合提案人的博罗维奇说道。
“在这一点上，我们还不如去俄罗斯杜马呢，”考夫曼补充道，此时布里格斯无视他们的反对，试图跳过这两项法案。
考夫曼告诉福克斯新闻数字频道，这场冲突表明民主党“如此害怕这个议题，以至于他们打破了立法程序、议会惯例，以及我20年来在议会中学到的一切规则”。
他表示，如果法案在未经本委员会投票通过的情况下被移交给另一个委员会，议会的“时间钟”将重新开始计算，民主党可以继续在委员会中推进这些法案，而无需就跨性别体育这一核心议题进行直接投票。
考夫曼表示，这场混乱反映了全国范围内关于跨性别体育的辩论，称这是一个“80%到90%”的民众支持按生理性别划分青少年运动员的议题。
伊利诺伊州学校董事会会议持续混乱，跨性别运动员参加女子体育赛事引发的紧张局势升级
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考夫曼补充说，民主党人最终将不得不直面这个问题，因为州参议院正在推进自己的跨性别体育法案，该法案将由众议院审议。
“这是父母的议题，是生理事实的议题。所以我们会继续推进，”他说，并补充道，民主党议员正在迎合党内极进步派边缘群体，“根本不在乎民众的意愿”。
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福克斯新闻数字频道联系了布里格斯，请其就这一情况置评。
这位来自普鲁士国王区的民主党议员的一名代表表示，他“遗憾地无法接受采访”。
就在此次冲突发生几周前，一名共和党议员试图在妇女月决议中定义“女性”，导致民主党人取消了纪念活动。
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查尔斯·克赖茨是福克斯新闻数字频道的记者。
他于2013年加入福克斯新闻，担任撰稿人和制作助理。
查尔斯负责报道福克斯新闻数字频道的媒体、政治和文化领域新闻。
查尔斯是宾夕法尼亚州本地人，毕业于天普大学，获得广播新闻学学士学位。新闻线索可发送至charles.creitz@fox.com。
WATCH: Hearing erupts after Dem chair tries to sidestep GOP transgender sports bills: ‘They’re petrified’
April 29, 2026 6:00am EDT / Fox News
HB 158 and HB 1849 would separate scholastic athletes by biological sex in the key swing state
By Charles Creitz, Fox News
The Trump administration, through the Justice Department, sues Minnesota over Title IX compliance issues, aiming to protect fairness in women’s sports. Collegiate softball player Kendall Kotzmacher shares her heartbreaking experience playing against a biological male, highlighting the need to protect female athletes’ hard-earned achievements. Many young people, including Kendall, support this stance, demanding change to ensure fair competition.
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A Pennsylvania hearing on transgender sports legislation erupted in chaos Monday, as Republicans accused Democrats of trying to sidestep votes on two related bills.
Pennsylvania became a focal point of the transgender sports debate in 2022, as UPenn swimmer Lia Thomas competed against female athletes, including the University of Kentucky’s Riley Gaines. Since then, conservatives have sought to codify the separation of biological sexes in scholastic sports and public restrooms nationwide.
The top Republican on the Pennsylvania House Judiciary Committee told Fox News Digital that the scene captured on official video showed the Democratic chairman trying to “re-refer” two bills to the House Health Committee without fully explaining which bills he was citing.
Ranking member Rep. Rob Kauffman, R-Chambersburg, said that Republicans ultimately determined the two bills focused on separating scholastic athletes by biological sex and that Democrats resisted any debate before sending them to another committee to restart the process.
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Protesters gather outside the Supreme Court in Washington, D.C., on Jan. 13, 2026, to oppose transgender athletes competing in women’s sports as the court reviews related bans in a landmark case.(Heather Diehl/Getty Images)
“It’s fascinating. But the key is, in the legislative process, whether it be on the House floor or in any committee meeting, they’ll say the number of the bill and then they’ll give a title or brief description of the bill before anyone votes on it. You don’t just call up a bill by number,” Kauffman told Fox News Digital in a Tuesday interview.
House Judiciary Committee Chairman Timothy Briggs was doing just that in a Monday hearing, Kauffman said.
Briggs, D-King of Prussia, sought to move two bills out of the committee quickly, announcing that all Democrats would vote to re-refer them while identifying the measures only by bill number.
Republicans said they were unaware of the bills’ contents because their titles were not read as Briggs tried to re-refer them to the House Health Committee.
Briggs asked the clerk to call the roll for the “sole purpose of referring [them] to the Health Committee” and added that “all Democrats will be voting ‘Yes.’”
“Could we kinda know what the bills are?” interjected Kauffman, before someone in the gallery called out that they were related to transgender athletes in children’s sports.
HB 158 is the Fairness in Women’s Sports Act from Rep. Barb Gleim, R-Mechanicsburg, and HB 1849 is the related Dads Defending Daughters Act by Rep. Clint Owlett, R-Tioga.
Briggs sighed and began to speak before Kauffman continued.
“We can’t vote on a re-referral when we don’t even know what the title of the bill is. Obviously, you don’t want us to know what the title of the bill is,” he said, chuckling as Briggs cut in that the committee is “running out of time.”
Kauffman quipped that if he ever pulled such a move as chairman, Briggs’ caucus would have “lost your mind.”
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After another pointed exchange between Briggs and Kauffman, the Democrat ordered the clerk to call the roll on the bills and then claimed aloud that some Republicans were refusing to vote.
One of those named, Rep. Stephanie Borowicz of Lock Haven, objected after learning the bills’ true identities:
“Now you’re deciding how we’re voting?” said Borowicz, who co-sponsored Gleim’s bill.
“We might as well be better off in the Russian Duma at this point,” Kauffman added as Briggs plowed through their objections and tried to move past the two bills.
The blow-up showed that Democrats are “petrified of this issue so much that they broke legislative protocol, parliamentary norms and everything I’ve learned in this legislature in 20 years,” Kauffman told Fox News Digital.
He said that if the bills were moved to another committee without first being voted out of his own, the parliamentary “clock” would restart and Democrats could continue moving the measures through committee without taking a direct vote on the underlying transgender sports issue.
Kauffman said the kerfuffle was indicative of the national debate over transgender sports, calling it an “80-90%” issue in favor of separating youth athletes by sex.
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Kauffman added that Democrats will eventually have to confront the issue because the state Senate is advancing its own transgender sports bill, which will be taken up by the House.
“It’s a mom and dad issue. It’s a biological fact issue. So we’re going to keep at it,” he said, adding that critics are catering to the far-progressive fringe of their party and “generally don’t care what the people want.”
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Fox News Digital reached out to Briggs for a response to the situation.
A representative for the King of Prussia Democrat said he was “regrettably unavailable” for comment.
The clash came just weeks after a Republican lawmaker’s attempt to define “woman” in a Women’s Month resolution led Democrats to pull the commemoration.
Fox News Digital’s Kiera McDonald contributed to this report.
Charles Creitz is a reporter for Fox News Digital.
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Charles covers media, politics and culture for Fox News Digital.
Charles is a Pennsylvania native and graduated from Temple University with a B.A. in Broadcast Journalism. Story tips can be sent to charles.creitz@fox.com.
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