WASHINGTON, Sept. 23 -- Sen. Chuck Grassley issued the following news release:

WASHINGTON - Senate Judiciary Committee Chairman Chuck Grassley (R-Iowa) co-hosted a press conference alongside Senate Judiciary Republicans and female athletes and advocates following today's committee hearing on empowering and protecting women in sports.

Sixty-six percent of U.S. adults favor a law or policy that would require transgender athletes to compete on teams that match their sex at birth. Despite this overwhelming support from the American public, every Democrat member of the Judiciary Committee refused to fully participate in today's hearing. Democrats called no witnesses and asked no questions.

"Democrats love to claim they are the party that supp...