Protection of Women and Girls in Sports Act of 2023

Subjects: Civil Rights and Liberties, Minority Issues, 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>

<html><body><pre>[Congressional Bills 118th Congress]
[From the U.S. Government Publishing Office]
[S. 613 Introduced in Senate (IS)]

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118th CONGRESS
  1st Session
                                 S. 613

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


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                   IN THE SENATE OF THE UNITED STATES

                             March 1, 2023

 Mr. Tuberville (for himself, Mr. Lee, Mr. Lankford, Mr. Cotton, Mrs. 
  Blackburn, Mr. Marshall, Mr. Budd, Mr. Cramer, Mrs. Hyde-Smith, Mr. 
  Braun, Mr. Scott of Florida, Mr. Risch, Mr. Crapo, Mr. Hagerty, Mr. 
 Rubio, Ms. Ernst, Ms. Lummis, Mr. Daines, Mr. Hawley, Mr. Mullin, Mr. 
 Graham, and Mrs. Britt) introduced the following bill; which was read 
 twice and referred to the Committee on Health, Education, Labor, and 
                                Pensions

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                                 A BILL


 
To provide that for purposes of determining compliance with title IX of 
the Education Amendments of 1972 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 U.S.C. 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 funds 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 purposes of this subsection, sex shall be recognized 
based solely on a person's reproductive biology and genetics at 
birth.''.
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