Yesterday, on Capitol Hill, the DOGE subcommittee of the House Committee on Oversight and Government Reform chaired by Rep. Marjorie Taylor Greene (R-Georgia) held a hearing titled “Unfair Play: Keeping Men Out of Women’s Sports.”  Witnesses include fencer Stephanie Turner, USA Fencing board chair Damien Lehfeldt under subpoena, and former high school volleyball player Payton McNabb.

In a letter to the committee, Concerned Women for America Legislative Action Committee (CWALAC) pledges to stand with those committed to holding U.S. sport’s governing bodies like USA Fencing accountable for policies and priorities that degrade women’s sports and deny female athletes their equal rights. In the letter, CEO and President Penny Nance condemns the U.S. Olympic and Paralympic Committee and National Governing Bodies for leadership and activism that evades requirements under federal law:  

For years now, national sports governing bodies (NGBs), including USA Fencing, have made a mockery of women’s sports and denied female athletes their rights to fair competition and equal opportunity by enabling males self-identifying as women to compete in the women’s category. 

For well over a decade, U.S. national sports policy has been brutally compromised by the so-called “diversity, equity, and inclusion” (DEI) movement.  The radical and unrelenting activism behind DEI has poisoned U.S. leadership in the international Olympic community…

The United States Olympic and Paralympic Committee (USOPC) has proudly promoted trans-identifying males in women’s sports in direct contradiction to the requirements of the Ted Stevens Olympic and Amateur Sports Act…

Our anger over the state of these affairs in U.S. Olympic and amateur sports cannot be overstated.

Read Penny’s full letter HERE.