Pennsylvania House Democrats yanked their own Women’s History Month resolution from the floor after a Republican lawmaker tried to attach an amendment spelling out the biological definition of a woman.
Democratic Rep. Carol Hill-Evans introduced House Resolution 390 on Tuesday to designate March as National Women’s Month in the commonwealth. The measure praised the accomplishments of women that she said too frequently go without recognition, according to Fox News Digital.
Speaker Joanna McClinton opened the resolution for consideration in the 102-100 Democrat-controlled chamber. Before the body could vote, the clerk flagged an amendment from state Rep. Aaron Bernstine, a Republican from Ellwood City. McClinton allowed him to present it. (RELATED: Stephen A. Smith Tells Bill Maher What He Really Thinks About Biological Men Competing Against Women)
“This amendment is very straightforward and clear,” Bernstine told the chamber, according to Fox News Digital. “It defines what a woman actually is — because we do know what that is.”
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McClinton briefly cut her microphone and huddled with colleagues. Seconds later, she declared the resolution “temporarily over,” drawing an eruption of laughter in the chamber, the outlet reported.
Bernstine told Fox News Digital the following day that the speaker shelved the measure to avoid forcing members to vote on a physiological definition of womanhood. “They pulled it because they were scared to define what a woman actually is,” he said.
Jason Gottesman, a spokesman for the House Republican Caucus, told the outlet that Democrats cannot be taken seriously on the issue when they want to celebrate what they refuse to define.
Democrats at the federal level have repeatedly sidestepped the same question, most notably during Justice Ketanji Brown Jackson’s 2022 confirmation hearing. Senate Democrats also voted along party lines in March 2025 to kill legislation banning biological males from women’s sports. The resolution remains eligible for reintroduction under its “temporarily over” status.
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