Protection of Women and Girls in Sports Act of 2023

Subjects: Education, Athletes, Education programs funding, School athletics, Sex, gender, sexual orientation discrimination

Summary:  <p><b>Protection of Women and Girls in Sports Act of 2023</b></p> <p>This bill generally prohibits school athletic programs from allowing individuals whose biological sex at birth was male to participate in programs that are for women or girls.</p> <p>Specifically, the bill provides that it is a violation of Title IX of the Education Amendments of 1972 for federally funded education programs or activities to operate, sponsor, or facilitate athletic programs or activities that allow individuals of the male sex to participate in programs or activities that are designated for women or girls. (Title IX prohibits discrimination on the basis of sex in federally funded education programs or activities, including in public elementary and secondary schools and in colleges and universities.) Under the bill,<i> sex</i> is based on an individual's reproductive biology and genetics at birth.</p> <p>The bill does not prohibit male individuals from training or practicing with programs or activities for women or girls as long as such training or practice does not deprive any female of corresponding opportunities or benefits. </p> <p>The Government Accountability Office must report on the benefits for women or girls in single-sex sports that would be lost as a result of male participation. In particular, the report must document the negative psychological, developmental, participatory, and sociological effects of male participation on girls.</p>

<html><body><pre>[Congressional Bills 118th Congress]
[From the U.S. Government Publishing Office]
[H.R. 734 Introduced in House (IH)]

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118th CONGRESS
  1st Session
                                H. R. 734

To amend the Education Amendments of 1972 to provide that for purposes 
 of determining compliance with title IX of such Act in athletics, sex 
shall be recognized based solely on a person's reproductive biology and 
                           genetics at birth.


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                    IN THE HOUSE OF REPRESENTATIVES

                            February 1, 2023

Mr. Steube (for himself, Ms. Tenney, Ms. Foxx, Mr. Wittman, Mr. Webster 
    of Florida, Mr. Balderson, Mr. Buck, Mrs. Wagner, Mr. Carter of 
   Georgia, Mr. Gaetz, Mrs. Miller-Meeks, Mr. Smith of Missouri, Mr. 
    Ellzey, Mr. Griffith, Mr. LaMalfa, and Mr. Carl) introduced the 
 following bill; which was referred to the Committee on Education and 
                             the Workforce

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                                 A BILL


 
To amend the Education Amendments of 1972 to provide that for purposes 
 of determining compliance with title IX of such Act in athletics, sex 
shall be recognized based solely on a person's reproductive biology and 
                           genetics at birth.

    Be it enacted by the Senate and House of Representatives of the 
United States of America in Congress assembled,

SECTION 1. SHORT TITLE.

    This Act may be cited as the ``Protection of Women and Girls in 
Sports Act of 2023''.

SEC. 2. AMENDMENT.

    Section 901 of the Education Amendments of 1972 (20 USC 1681) is 
amended by adding at the end the following:
    ``(d)(1) It shall be a violation of subsection (a) for a recipient 
of Federal financial assistance who operates, sponsors, or facilitates 
athletic programs or activities to permit a person whose sex is male to 
participate in an athletic program or activity that is designated for 
women or girls.
    ``(2) For the purposes of this subsection, sex shall be recognized 
based solely on a person's reproductive biology and genetics at birth.
    ``(3) Nothing in this subsection shall be construed to prohibit a 
recipient from permitting males to train or practice with an athletic 
program or activity that is designated for women or girls so long as no 
female is deprived of a roster spot on a team or sport, opportunity to 
participate in a practice or competition, scholarship, admission to an 
educational institution, or any other benefit that accompanies 
participating in the athletic program or activity.''.
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