Safety and Opportunity for Girls Act of 2023

Subjects: Civil Rights and Liberties, Minority Issues, Athletes, Education programs funding, Educational facilities and institutions, Elementary and secondary education, Genetics, Higher education, School athletics, Sex, gender, sexual orientation discrimination

Summary:  <p><b>Safety and Opportunity for Girls Act of </b><b>2023</b></p> <p>This bill defines <i>sex</i> under Title IX of the Education Amendments of 1972 as a person's biological sex at birth. (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.) </p> <p>The bill also specifies that Title IX does not prohibit schools from having sex-segregated bathrooms, locker rooms, or athletic or academic programs, nor does it authorize the Department of Education to require schools to forgo such sex-segregated facilities or programs in order to receive funding.</p>

<html><body><pre>[Congressional Bills 118th Congress]
[From the U.S. Government Publishing Office]
[H.R. 935 Introduced in House (IH)]

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118th CONGRESS
  1st Session
                                H. R. 935

To clarify protections related to sex and sex-segregated spaces and to 
     activities under title IX of the Education Amendments of 1972.


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                    IN THE HOUSE OF REPRESENTATIVES

                            February 9, 2023

Mrs. Miller of Illinois (for herself, Mr. Duncan, Mr. Banks, Mr. Clyde, 
    Mrs. Boebert, Mr. Rosendale, Ms. Greene of Georgia, Mr. Good of 
Virginia, Mr. Bishop of North Carolina, Mr. LaMalfa, Mr. Grothman, Mr. 
Tiffany, Mr. Donalds, Mr. Jackson of Texas, Mr. Lamborn, and Mr. Gosar) 
 introduced the following bill; which was referred to the Committee on 
                      Education and the Workforce

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                                 A BILL


 
To clarify protections related to sex and sex-segregated spaces and to 
     activities under title IX of the Education Amendments of 1972.

    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 ``Safety and Opportunity for Girls Act 
of 2023''.

SEC. 2. AMENDMENT TO TITLE IX OF THE EDUCATION AMENDMENTS OF 1972.

    Section 901 of title IX of the Education Amendments of 1972 (20 
U.S.C. 1681) is amended by adding at end the following:
    ``(d) For purposes of this title--
            ``(1) the term `sex' means sex determined solely by a 
        person's reproductive biology and genetics at birth; and
            ``(2) the term `sex-segregated' means limited to or 
        separated by sex.
    ``(e) Nothing in this title may be construed--
            ``(1) to prohibit, to authorize the Secretary to prohibit, 
        or to authorize the Secretary to make receipt of funding under 
        this title contingent upon an educational institution forgoing 
        the maintenance of sex-segregated spaces by educational 
        institutions, including bathrooms and locker rooms; or
            ``(2) to prohibit, to authorize the Secretary to prohibit, 
        or to authorize the Secretary to make receipt of funding under 
        this title contingent upon an educational institution forgoing 
        the maintenance of sex-segregated athletic or academic programs 
        by educational institutions.''.
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