While I was in D.C. this week, voting to keep the government open, I received numerous calls and emails from parents standing up for their daughters.

As you may know, the New Richmond School District is allowing male students in girls’ bathrooms. Parents and community members told the board members their daughters feel unsafe last week, and administrators said girls who object to the policy can use a single-stall restroom.

This is unacceptable, and they must reverse this policy. Girls deserve safety, fairness, and dignity in schools across Wisconsin.

In Congress, I have fought to protect Title IX, which was created to guarantee equal opportunity for women and girls. Yet the radical left has been trying to rewrite Title IX for years to allow men into girls’ bathrooms, locker rooms, and sports.

We saw this under the previous administration when, on the 50th anniversary of Title IX, Democrat officials attempted to redefine the law to include “gender identity.”

We saw it at the college level when biological male Lia Thomas took championships from female swimmers.

We saw it in the Sun Prairie Area School District, where an 18-year-old male student was reportedly allowed to shower in a girls’ locker room and exposed himself. And now New Richmond is the latest example.

Federal leadership under President Trump has proven these policies will not be tolerated, including suing school districts that do not protect female students.

I will also continue pushing for the enactment of the Protection of Women and Girls in Sports Act, to uphold the original intent of Title IX and ensure only girls play in girls’ sports. The U.S. House passed it last year. Unfortunately, 206 Democrats, including Wisconsin’s Democrat members of Congress, voted against it.

I am also an original cosponsor of Rep. Mary Miller’s Keep Our Girls Safe Act, which requires public schools to comply with federal mandates to protect female-only spaces or lose federal funding. You can read more about that here.

Sometimes I stop and ask how we reached a point where this is even a debate. And now it is happening right here in Wisconsin’s Seventh District. It is past time to acknowledge the basic biological reality that men do not belong in girls’ sports or girls’ spaces.