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119TH CONGRESS 

1ST SESSION S. RES. 22 

Concerning the National Collegiate Athletic Association policy for eligibility 

in women’s sports. 

IN THE SENATE OF THE UNITED STATES 

JANUARY 13, 2025 

Mrs. BLACKBURN (for herself, Mr. RISCH, Mr. WICKER, Mr. LANKFORD, Mr. 

CRAPO, Ms. ERNST, Mr. MARSHALL, Mr. BARRASSO, Mr. TILLIS, Mr. 

SHEEHY, Mr. TUBERVILLE, and Mr. DAINES) submitted the following 

resolution; which was referred to the Committee on Commerce, Science, 

and Transportation 

RESOLUTION 

Concerning the National Collegiate Athletic Association 

policy for eligibility in women’s sports. 

Whereas athletic participation has an important positive impact on young girls, improving their physical, emotional, 

and psychological health, self-confidence, and discipline; 

Whereas women have been responsible for some of the greatest athletic feats in the history of sports in the United 

States, from the Olympic games to professional competition, through opportunities to compete in collegiate 

sports; 

Whereas the enactment of title IX of the Education Amendments of 1972 (20 U.S.C. 1681 et seq.) (referred to in 

this preamble as ‘‘title IX’’) marked a pivotal moment in 


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the Federal support of women in sports and applied to 

virtually all postsecondary institutions as recipients of 

Federal financial assistance; 

Whereas there are fundamental and enduring biological differences between males and females that put females at 

a competitive disadvantage in sports and jeopardize their 

safety during competition against males; 

Whereas, in 2010, the National Collegiate Athletic Association unilaterally adopted a policy that enables biological 

males to participate on women’s rosters and compete in 

the women’s sports category, a policy that continues 

today; 

Whereas the policy described in the previous proviso disproportionately negatively impacts female athletes; 

Whereas the National Association of Intercollegiate Athletics 

(referred to in this preamble as the ‘‘NAIA’’) has instituted new policies to protect biological women in sports 

and ensure that only student athletes whose biological sex 

is female will be allowed to compete on NAIA-sponsored 

women’s sports teams; 

Whereas it is imperative that opportunities for collegiate 

women to compete athletically are protected on the basis 

of sex; and 

Whereas member institutions of the National Collegiate Athletic Association have an obligation under title IX to ensure equality of benefits and opportunities in athletic programs on the basis of sex: Now, therefore be it 

1 Resolved, That the Senate— 

2 (1) calls on the National Collegiate Athletic As3 sociation (referred to in this resolution as ‘‘NCAA’’) 


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1 to revoke its transgender student-athlete eligibility 

2 policy that directly discriminates against female stu3 dent athletes; 

4 (2) implores the NCAA immediately to protect 

5 the integrity of collegiate women’s sports by forbid6 ding transgender-identifying males to compete on 

7 any women’s sports roster or in any collegiate com8 petition; 

9 (3) urges the NCAA to require its member con10 ferences to conform to a biological sex-based policy 

11 across all sports and all divisions; and 

12 (4) calls on all sports-governing bodies in the 

13 United States to protect the category of women’s 

14 sport for biological women and girls. 

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