The House is set to vote on a bill this week that would protect women’s right to privacy and equality by barring biological males from competing on girls’ sports teams in public schools and universities. Support for it should be a no-brainer, yet Senate Democrats will almost certainly vote against it, and even if they didn’t, President Joe Biden has vowed to veto it.

The bill, called the Protection of Women and Girls in Sports Act, would require educational institutions that accept federal funding to prohibit "a person whose sex is male” from participating in “an athletic program or activity that is designed for women or girls."

It is simply an extension of Title IX enforcement — or, at least, Title IX as it was intended to be enforced. Title IX was, after all, passed to prevent the exclusion of and discrimination against women in the educational arena.

Allowing men, who have undeniable, significant physical advantages, to compete on teams created specifically for women is exactly the kind of discrimination that Title IX was meant to redress. Democrats, however, do not seem at all bothered that women are being deprived of their right to equal competition.

Better for women to lose this right than the men who claim to identify as women, according to the White House.

"Schools, coaches, and athletic associations around the country are already working with families to develop participation rules that are fair and that take into account particular sports, grade levels, and levels of competition. As a national ban that does not account for competitiveness or grade level, H.R. 734 targets people for who they are and therefore is discriminatory," Biden’s team said in a statement.

We should be clear about what the White House is endorsing.

Just last month, a male identifying as a woman won first place in a New York City cycling competition, declaring that he felt like a “superhero” after dominating the actual women against whom he competed. Days later, another male-to-female athlete was seen physically shoving cyclist Hannah Arensman, a biological woman who ended up finishing in fourth place in the women’s event, flanked on either side by male riders who won third and fifth places. Arensman ended up announcing that she was quitting the sport, citing “the very real possibility I was overlooked for an international selection on the U.S. team at Cyclocross Worlds in February 2023 because of a male competitor.”

And let’s not forget Lia Thomas, a man who competed on the men’s swimming team for years before deciding to “transition” and compete on the University of Pennsylvania’s women’s swimming team.

He went on to compete at the NCAA women’s championships, where he won first place in one event and tied with Riley Gaines for fifth in another event. Gaines recalled how, even though they tied, NCAA officials insisted on giving Thomas the trophy instead of her. “The NCAA official came up to me and said, ‘Hey, we only have one fifth-place trophy’ — which I understood,” she said. “But he said, ‘We’re gonna have to give that trophy to Lia. Yours will be coming in the mail. Great job.’”

To be denied higher titles and championship positions is bad enough. But there is also the very real risk of injury when women are forced to compete against men. Last October, for example, a male high schooler identifying as a girl spiked a volleyball so hard that a female competitor was sent flying back from the net. She suffered significant neck and head injuries, according to the Cherokee County school board.

And back in 2014, the first “transgender” MMA fighter, Fallon Fox, ended up fracturing his female opponent’s skull during a match.

The woman who was injured, Tamikka Brents, said Fox overpowered her completely. “I’ve fought a lot of women and have never felt the strength that I felt in a fight as I did that night … I’ve never felt so overpowered ever in my life, and I am an abnormally strong female in my own right. [Fox’s] grip was different, I could usually move around in the clinch against other females but couldn’t move at all in Fox’s clinch," Brents said afterward.

Is this what the Biden administration wants? Women who work their entire lives to excel in a sport only to be sidelined by men? Girls who try to exercise their right to equal competition only to be physically dominated by boys? It would seem so.

Kaylee McGhee White is the editor of Restoring America for the Washington Examiner and a senior fellow at the Independent Women's Forum.