Rep. Chip Roy introduces legislation that seeks to remove radical gender ideology from U.S. passports. The legislation was introduced in response to President Trump's recent executive order declaring that there are only two genders in existence. In this episode, we talk with Rep. Roy about his legislation, and why he thinks this is a good idea.
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00:00:42.460So a few a few weeks ago, we had a conversation with Kim Jones surrounding the NCAA policy and their qualifications of sex, which, of course, was a birth certificate, which is a paper document that can be made fraudulent or could simply have a mistake.
00:00:58.220Today, we're going to be talking about something similar, but it's a piece of legislation introduced by a representative in Congress called the Passport Sanity Act.
00:01:07.100This was introduced by Representative Chip Roy. He says here, he says, radical gender ideology must be eliminated from every facet of the American government, root and branch.
00:01:17.360Passports exist to protect our national security by verifying the identity of those who exit and reenter our country.
00:01:23.400And that is why they need to be grounded in reality. They are not a political delivery system to push a false notion that goes against the fact that there are only two genders in existence.
00:01:33.780And those, of course, are male and female. So very, very excited for this conversation here.
00:01:39.640Again, this policy sounds a lot like the executive order that President Trump signed declaring there are only two sexes.
00:01:45.020So watch this episode here with Congressman Chip Roy.
00:01:48.920Well, Congressman Roy, thank you for joining the Games for Girls podcast.
00:01:52.620I wanted to talk to you today about this new piece of legislation that you have recently reintroduced, the Passport Sanity Act, aiming to remove radical gender ideology from U.S. passports.
00:02:05.060So just take a second and elaborate on the specific changes of this legislative proposal.
00:02:11.100Yeah, well, first of all, I'm not sure how your head doesn't explode when you're out speaking about all these things,
00:02:15.900when you actually have to use the words like radical gender ideology with passports, right?
00:02:20.740Like if you ever just like put that in perspective, do you think about where we are as a society?
00:02:25.320That's where we stand, which is absolutely ridiculous.
00:02:27.360But also thank you for all you've done on this issue and continue to do as a proud father of both a son and a daughter.
00:02:33.760I appreciate what you're doing for them and that sanity.
00:02:40.980So last year, maybe the year before, I introduced legislation with J.D. Vance, of all people.
00:02:47.180J.D. was in the Senate at the time, of course, to do the radical notion that our passport should basically just have male, female, man, woman, the biological reality.
00:02:58.480And so we introduced legislation to do that because, you know, the Biden administration was trying to make our passports into a, you know, social remake experiment.
00:03:07.860And and we introduced that legislation.
00:03:09.960And of course, God bless President Trump and one of the eight bajillion executive orders that he's carried out, along with Marco Rubio, implementing it over in the State Department.
00:03:19.620They're now doing that with respect to passports.
00:03:22.300But we have the legislation that I reintroduced, the one that I did with J.D. last Congress that would make it permanent.
00:03:28.140Right. We in Congress need to make this stuff permanent.
00:03:30.140So a future Biden administration can't make these ridiculous policies a nightmare again.
00:03:37.440And that's something that I've really, really tried to communicate with people, because I think your average American, maybe your average conservative,
00:03:45.220they see President Trump in office and they see all of these executive orders being signed and they kind of wipe their hands and think, look, the war on woke has been won.
00:04:39.620Well, I mean, importantly, we called it the Passport Sanity Act because it is, in fact, insane to do otherwise.
00:04:46.140But to your point, and now a moment of seriousness, and this is a serious issue.
00:04:50.820Passports are critical with respect to our identification and who we are.
00:04:55.420And it matters, obviously, for going overseas and coming in and out of our country.
00:04:59.920But we allow passports to be used, obviously, for voting and for all manners of identification.
00:05:05.160And when you start trying to turn this into essentially, like I said, a social engineering experiment, then you devalue everything it means to identify who we are.
00:05:13.520And you start politicizing the very basic services of government, which we shouldn't do.
00:05:19.460Government should be serving a very tight, focused function and do it effectively and efficiently.
00:05:24.560Right. I mean, that's kind of what Doge ultimately should be about.
00:05:28.240Government constitution is supposed to be focused on securing the country, doing the basics.
00:05:33.120Our state, you know, government, roads and schools and cops and, you know, making sure you got emergency services.
00:05:41.620And this is turning everything upside down.
00:05:44.300So we want to get things back to basics. Right.
00:05:46.140I mean, President Trump said it well when he said common sense.
00:05:48.620That's what we want. We want common sense restored.
00:05:51.360That's why it's called the Passport Sanity Act.
00:05:53.200It matters that we're able to identify people directly as who they are and not transform everything we do in government to, you know, some sort of small group at Harvard or Yale or something.
00:06:04.960That's right. And we see what happens when you can change your passport, because actually a prime example of this and relating it to the issue that I find myself speaking about most,
00:06:14.500as the issue of men and women's sports, because a male was allowed to to fraudulently change his passport, a man was able to get in the boxing ring at the Olympics, the pinnacle of sport, and win an Olympic gold medal.
00:06:31.140Same thing with this new NCAA policy that has been now released.
00:06:35.800NCAA President Charlie Baker claiming to get in line with President Trump's really beautifully and thoroughly written executive order.
00:06:42.540But of course, this policy, it resorts back to birth certificates, which same thing, they can be made fraudulent or honestly could have mistakes on them.
00:06:51.400I actually have a friend, one of my dear friends.
00:06:54.940He has a passport that says female on it because his doctor at birth literally just made a mistake in writing his passport.
00:07:03.080So absolutely. And you just mentioned something like that.
00:07:06.700I'm sure all of his buddies have had a lot of fun with that one over the years, because I certainly would have one of my, you know, I was a couple of college sports.
00:07:14.760We would have had a lot of fun with that one.
00:07:16.560But look, you know, it's really actually important, this this this whole notion.
00:07:21.560And and, you know, people brush it aside like it's just a choice.
00:07:24.900But if you boil our official documents down to choice, then we have nothing left.
00:07:29.180The rule of law becomes effectively meaningless.
00:07:31.340And that part about the NCAA, I couldn't agree more.
00:07:33.620I mean, as somebody, again, who was involved with NCAA athletics, you know, the NCAA has never met a woke direction.
00:07:41.940It doesn't want to go or a fight they don't want to avoid if it means standing up to do the right thing.
00:07:46.920So, of course, they want to be able to hide behind the president's executive order and say, oh, yeah, we're doing it, too.
00:07:51.200But then leave the door open wide open for continued abuse and discretion by universities which are not paragon of common sense.
00:07:58.280And so we need to have some leadership there.
00:08:00.320Maybe they should focus on fixing the disaster that is NIL, but I'll save that for a different podcast.
00:08:06.940And actually, your your home state, Texas, Attorney General Ken Paxson was the first attorney general to ultimately issue a temporary injunction to the NCAA to prevent this policy from taking place.
00:08:19.440So we appreciate his leadership. You've been one of the few, Congressman Roy, who is willing to to criticize both parties at times, which I admire.
00:08:31.040I think that is raw. I think it is is certainly needed.
00:08:34.420What do you think needs to change within the Republican Party for it to to better serve Americans?
00:08:40.440Well, I mean, of course, I can touch on a whole lot of different issues, but even within the realm of the space we're talking about here, Republicans need to lead and not be afraid.
00:08:49.680You know, I've got a lot of colleagues who are in districts that are we'll call them tighter than mine.
00:08:53.640Right. They're closer to even distribution distribution between Republican and Democrat.
00:09:01.160Remember, I represent Austin, Texas, which is a pretty liberal city, but I used to represent downtown Austin.
00:09:06.540My district was about an R plus three or four district, meaning it was very competitive.
00:09:11.060But I stuck to my guns. I was an outspoken conservative, a limited government conservative.
00:09:15.600And you could go with. But you've got to have the willingness to go make the argument, make the case to people.
00:09:20.440And that would be what I would argue Republicans need to do.
00:09:22.860And on issues like this, you can't just shrug it off as like, oh, but those are social issues.
00:09:27.180We shouldn't talk about them. Culture is who we are.
00:09:30.840It's a reflection of who we are as a people.
00:09:32.580When J.D. talks about immigration, for example, and you talk about who we are as a country and that we are, in fact, a sovereign nation and the rule of law matters, it's because that's true.
00:09:42.660And if we can't stand up and defend the country, defend the people, defend that there is man and woman, defend that life is precious,
00:09:49.420doesn't mean that there aren't circumstances that we all as Christians or, you know, people of faith generally don't look and say, hey, there's there's something there, an exception there or something we want to do to help somebody.
00:09:59.540But as a rule, if we're not trying to stand up and protect innocent life, recognize common sense, build our communities around families, husbands and wives and and and and do the right thing, then why are we in this business?
00:10:12.320So that's what my advice is to Republicans. Don't shy away from you want to reduce the deficit.
00:10:17.160You're going to have to go cut some spending and have some hard conversations.
00:10:20.100You want to save the country. You're going to have to take tough stances.
00:10:22.420If you want a secure border, you're going to have to tell some people, no, that's just what it is like being a parent.
00:10:27.240You just have to do it. You guys are parents.
00:10:34.420Last thing I want to ask you about, since I was just in your home state of Texas celebrating the introduction of HB3,
00:10:43.100which relates to the establishment of an educational savings account, essentially a universal school choice bill.
00:10:49.960Is this a good move for Texas and for Texas families?
00:10:55.040Yeah, sure. I mean, that's an issue I feel pretty strongly about.
00:10:57.240You know, I grew up going public school, K through law school.
00:11:00.800I never went to a private school, but schools have changed.
00:11:03.620And I want my kids to be able to go to a school where they can pray, where they can learn about God, where they can study classical education so they can go to a classical Christian school.
00:11:11.020Now, we can muddle through. It hurts our budget to do it.
00:11:14.080But we can muddle through. There's a lot of Americans who can't, but they're stuck in a school system that is against their values, against what they believe.
00:11:20.800It may be failing academically. So, of course, we should take tax dollars and give parents the ability to have choice so their children can have the best shot and a good education.
00:11:29.240So, HB3, that's a good, I think, closer to true universal choice bill.
00:11:35.100There's a Senate bill in Texas, which I think is a step at least towards, you know, choice.
00:11:40.420But I prefer the House approach of getting closer to universal choice.
00:11:43.780I think it's important to have a broad approach to it, and it's important to shake things up.
00:11:48.060We spend so much money in the public education establishment.
00:11:50.900We give money to administrators, bureaucrats, the vice president of woke ideology, and we need to break all that down.
00:11:56.400And competition is the best medicine and giving people the ability to go to a school that shares their value.
00:12:02.260Agreed. Last thing, actually. What else are you working on at the moment?
00:12:07.040Well, you may have heard we had this whole big dust up over the budget last night.
00:12:10.440We passed a budget in the House and sent it over the Senate.
00:12:13.020It's a step forward. I don't think it gets the job done fully.
00:12:15.600We've got more work to do, but it does reduce spending and frees up some space for some tax cuts to make sure that we can make sure the American people are helped.
00:12:23.760That's important. We've got to get Tom Homan the resources he needs to finish securing the border and to remove people who need to be removed.
00:12:30.580But look, things are trending in the right directions, a direct consequence of the president and his leadership.
00:12:35.260I just hope we can all kind of come together and get this budget done and finish the job.
00:12:39.120So that's what we're focused on at the moment.