The House of Representatives passed a bill on April 20 that would prohibit taxpayer-funded institutions from allowing transgender-identifying male athletes to compete in women and girls sports in schools.

The vote tally fell along party lines, 219–203.

The Protection of Women and Girls in Sports Act, H.R. 734, introduced by Rep. Greg Steube (R-Fla.), would amend Title IX to recognize sex as “based solely on a person’s reproductive biology and genetics at birth.”

Title IX protects against sex discrimination in education.

The bill states that “it shall be a violation for a recipient of federal financial assistance who operates, sponsors, or facilitates athletic programs or activities to permit a person whose sex is male to participate in an athletic program or activity that is designated for women or girls.”

Steube, on the House floor, said his bill is meant to ensure fairness in women’s sports.

“Congress in 1972 created Title IX to protect women’s sports, to enable women to have an equal playing field in athletics, and in worship to their trans idols, the [Biden] administration wants to flip that on its head. It’s insane,” he said.

“Parents do not want biological men in locker rooms with their daughters, nor do they believe it’s equitable a male can compete with women in female athletics.”

The measure comes as the Biden administration has proposed a regulation that would largely prohibit bans on transgender sports participation.

Despite the bill passing the GOP-controlled House, it is likely dead on arrival in the Senate. Even if the Democrat-controlled Senate were to take it up and pass it, the White House has said that President Joe Biden would veto it.

In a Statement of Administration Policy, the White House claimed that the bill “would deny access to sports for many families by establishing an absolute ban on transgender students—even those as young as elementary schoolers—playing on a team consistent with their gender identity.”

The White House called the proposed legislation “discriminatory.”

“Politicians should not dictate a one-size-fits-all requirement that forces coaches to remove kids from their teams. At a time when transgender youth already face a nationwide mental health crisis, with half of transgender youth in a recent survey saying they have seriously considered suicide, a national law that further stigmatizes these children is completely unnecessary, hurts families and students, and would only put students at greater risk,” the White House said.

“Discrimination has no place in our nation’s schools or on our playing fields.”