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119TH CONGRESS 
1ST SESSION H. R. 3950 
To defend women’s rights and protect freedom of conscience by using clear 
and accurate language and policies recognizing that women are bio-
logically female and men are biologically male, and for other purposes. 
IN THE HOUSE OF REPRESENTATIVES 
JUNE 12, 2025 
Mr. CARTER of Georgia introduced the following bill; which was referred to 
the Committee on the Judiciary, and in addition to the Committees on 
Oversight and Government Reform, Foreign Affairs, Financial Services, 
Education and Workforce, Homeland Security, and Ways and Means, for 
a period to be subsequently determined by the Speaker, in each case for 
consideration of such provisions as fall within the jurisdiction of the com-
mittee concerned 
A BILL 
To defend women’s rights and protect freedom of conscience 
by using clear and accurate language and policies recog-
nizing that women are biologically female and men are 
biologically male, and for other purposes. 
Be it enacted by the Senate and House of Representa-
tives of the United States of America in Congress assembled, 
SECTION 1. SHORT TITLE. 
This Act may be cited as the ‘‘Truth in Gender Act 
of 2025’’. 
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SEC. 2. DEFINITIONS. 
(a) IN GENERAL.—For purposes of this Act: 
(1) SEX.—The term ‘‘sex’’— 
(A) means an individual’s immutable bio-
logical classification as either male or female; 
and 
(B) is not a synonym for, and does not in-
clude, the concept of gender identity. 
(2) WOMEN, WOMAN; GIRLS, GIRL.—The term 
‘‘women’’ or ‘‘woman’’ and the term ‘‘girls’’ or 
‘‘girl’’ mean an adult or juvenile human female, re-
spectively. 
(3) MEN, MAN; BOYS, BOY.—The term ‘‘men’’ 
or ‘‘man’’ and the term ‘‘boys’’ or ‘‘boy’’ mean an 
adult or juvenile human male, respectively. 
(4) FEMALE.—The term ‘‘female’’ means a per-
son belonging, at conception, to the sex that pro-
duces the large reproductive cell. 
(5) MALE.—The term ‘‘male’’ means a person 
belonging, at conception, to the sex that produces 
the small reproductive cell. 
(b) GENDER IDEOLOGY; GENDER IDENTITY.—Con-
gress finds that— 
(1) gender ideology— 
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(A) replaces the biological category of sex 
with an ever-shifting concept of self-assessed 
gender identity— 
(i) permitting the false claim that 
males can identify as and thus become 
women and vice versa; and 
(ii) requiring all institutions of society 
to regard this false claim as true; 
(B) includes the idea that there is a vast 
spectrum of genders that are disconnected from 
one’s sex; and 
(C) is internally inconsistent, in that it di-
minishes sex as an identifiable or useful cat-
egory but nevertheless maintains that it is pos-
sible for a person to be born in the wrong-sexed 
body; and 
(2) gender identity reflects a fully internal and 
subjective sense of self, disconnected from biological 
reality and sex and existing on an infinite con-
tinuum, that does not provide a meaningful basis for 
identification and cannot be recognized as a replace-
ment for sex. 
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SEC. 3. RECOGNIZING WOMEN ARE BIOLOGICALLY DIS-
TINCT FROM MEN. 
(a) ISSUANCE OF HHS GUIDANCE.—Not later than 
30 days after the date of enactment of this Act, the Sec-
retary of Health and Human Services shall provide to the 
Federal agencies, and the public clear guidance expanding 
on the definitions set forth in section 2. 
(b) ENFORCEMENT OF SEX-BASED RIGHTS.— 
(1) IN GENERAL.—The head of a Federal agen-
cy and the employees of such agency shall enforce 
laws governing sex-based rights, protections, oppor-
tunities, and accommodations to protect men and 
women as biologically distinct sexes. 
(2) USE
OF
DEFINITIONS
IN
CONDUCTING 
AGENCY
FUNCTIONS.—In carrying out paragraph 
(1), head of a Federal agency shall use the defini-
tions set forth in section 2 when— 
(A) interpreting or applying statutes, regu-
lations, or guidance; and 
(B) conducting all other official agency 
business, documents, and communications. 
(c) USE OF TERMS IN FEDERAL POLICIES AND DOC-
UMENTS.—In administering and enforcing sex-based dis-
tinctions, the head of a Federal agency, and the employees 
of such agency acting in an official capacity on behalf of 
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the agency, shall use the term ‘‘sex’’ and not the term 
‘‘gender’’ in all applicable Federal policies and documents. 
(d) GOVERNMENT-ISSUED IDENTIFICATION DOCU-
MENTS; PERSONNEL RECORDS.— 
(1) IDENTIFICATION
DOCUMENTS.—The Sec-
retary of State, the Secretary of Homeland Security, 
and the Director of the Office of Personnel Manage-
ment shall each implement changes to require that 
Government-issued identification documents (includ-
ing passports, visas, and Global Entry cards) accu-
rately reflect the holder’s sex, as defined under sec-
tion 2. 
(2) PERSONNEL
RECORDS.—The Director of 
the Office of Personnel Management shall ensure 
that applicable personnel records accurately report 
the sex of a Federal employee, as defined by section 
2. 
(e) FEDERAL GOVERNMENT COMMUNICATIONS AND 
FORMS.— 
(1) MODIFICATION OF INTERNAL AND EXTER-
NAL
MESSAGES.—The head of a Federal agency 
shall— 
(A) remove all statements, policies, regula-
tions, forms, communications, and other inter-
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nal and external messages that promote or oth-
erwise inculcate gender ideology; and 
(B) cease issuing such statements, policies, 
regulations, forms, communications, or other 
messages. 
(2) MODIFICATION
OF
AGENCY
FORMS.—The 
head of a Federal agency— 
(A) shall ensure that the forms used by the 
agency require an individual’s sex to be listed 
as male or female; and 
(B) may not request gender identity. 
(3) PROHIBITION
ON
USE
OF
FUNDS.—The 
head of a Federal agency shall take all necessary 
steps, as permitted by law, to end the Federal fund-
ing of gender ideology. 
(f) DOJ ACTIONS.—The Attorney General shall— 
(1) promptly issue guidance to the heads of 
Federal agencies to correct the misapplication of the 
Supreme Court’s decision in Bostock v. Clayton 
County (590 U.S. 644; 2020) to sex-based distinc-
tions in agency activities; and 
(2) issue guidance and assist the heads of Fed-
eral agencies in protecting sex-based distinctions, 
which are explicitly permitted under constitutional 
and statutory precedent. 
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(g) PROHIBITION ON USE OF FUNDS.— 
(1) IN GENERAL.—Federal funds may not be 
used to promote gender ideology. 
(2) GRANTS; GRANT PREFERENCES.—The head 
of each Federal agency shall— 
(A) assess grant conditions and grantee 
preferences; and 
(B) ensure that grant funds do not pro-
mote gender ideology. 
SEC. 4. PRIVACY IN INTIMATE SPACES. 
(a) DETENTION IN PRISONS.—The Attorney General 
and Secretary of Homeland Security shall each ensure 
that males are not detained in women’s prisons or housed 
in women’s detention centers, including through— 
(1) amendment, as necessary, of section 115.41 
of title 28, Code of Federal Regulations (or suc-
cessor regulations); and 
(2) interpretation of guidance regarding the 
Americans with Disabilities Act of 1990 (Public Law 
101–336). 
(b) RESCISSION OF HUD FINAL RULE; ACCESS TO 
SINGLE-SEX RAPE SHELTERS.—The Secretary of Hous-
ing and Urban Development shall— 
(1) prepare and submit for notice-and-comment 
rulemaking a policy to rescind the final rule entitled 
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‘‘Equal Access in Accordance with an Individual’s 
Gender Identity in Community Planning and Devel-
opment Programs’’ (dated September 21, 2016; 81 
Fed. Reg. 64763); and 
(2) submit for public comment a policy pro-
tecting women seeking single-sex rape shelters. 
(c) MEDICAL CARE IN PRISONS.—The Attorney Gen-
eral shall ensure that— 
(1) the Bureau of Prisons revises its policies 
concerning medical care to be consistent with this 
Act; and 
(2) no Federal funds are expended for any med-
ical procedure, treatment, or drug for the purpose of 
conforming an inmate’s appearance to that of the 
opposite sex. 
(d) OTHER INTIMATE SPACES.—The head of a Fed-
eral agency shall take appropriate action to ensure that 
intimate spaces designated for women, girls, or females 
(or for men, boys, or males) are designated by sex and 
not identity. 
SEC. 5. PROTECTING RIGHTS. 
(a) FREEDOM TO EXPRESS THE BINARY NATURE OF 
SEX; RIGHT TO SINGLE-SEX SPACES IN WORKPLACES.— 
The Attorney General shall issue guidance to ensure— 
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(1) the freedom to express the binary nature of 
sex; and 
(2) the right to single-sex spaces in workplaces 
and federally funded entities covered by the Civil 
Rights Act of 1964 (Public Law 88–352). 
(b) PRIORITIZATION OF INVESTIGATIONS AND LITI-
GATION.—In accordance with the guidance to be issued 
under subsection (a), the Attorney General, the Secretary 
of Labor, the General Counsel and Chair of the Equal 
Employment Opportunity Commission, and each other 
head of a Federal agency with enforcement responsibilities 
under the Civil Rights Act of 1964 (Public Law 88–352) 
shall prioritize investigations and litigation to enforce the 
rights and freedoms identified. 
SEC. 6. AGENCY IMPLEMENTATION AND REPORTING. 
(a) REPORTING REQUIREMENT.— 
(1) IN
GENERAL.—Not later than 120 days 
after the date of enactment of this Act, the head of 
each Federal agency shall submit to the President, 
acting through the Director of the Office of Manage-
ment and Budget, an update on implementation of 
this Act. 
(2) CONTENTS.—The head of each Federal 
agency shall include in the update of the agency to 
be submitted under paragraph (1)— 
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(A) changes to the documents of the agen-
cy (including regulations, guidance, forms, and 
communications) made to comply with this Act; 
and 
(B) agency-imposed requirements on feder-
ally funded entities, including contractors, to 
achieve the policy of this Act. 
(b) RELATIONSHIP TO OTHER LAWS.—The require-
ments of this Act supersede conflicting provisions in any 
other law. 
(c) RESCISSION
OF
CERTAIN
GUIDANCE
DOCU-
MENTS.— 
(1) IN GENERAL.—The head of a Federal agen-
cy shall— 
(A) promptly rescind all guidance docu-
ments of the agency that are inconsistent with 
the requirements of this Act or guidance issued 
by the Attorney General pursuant to this Act; 
or 
(B) as appropriate, rescind such parts of 
such documents that are inconsistent in such 
manner. 
(2) INCLUDED
DOCUMENTS.—The documents 
referred to in paragraph (1) include each document 
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identified in section 7(c) of Executive Order 14168, 
as in effect on the date of enactment of this Act. 
SEC. 7. GENERAL PROVISIONS. 
(a) RIGHTS AND BENEFITS.—This Act is not in-
tended to, and does not, create any right or benefit, sub-
stantive or procedural, enforceable at law or in equity by 
any party against the United States, its departments, 
agencies, or entities, its officers, employees, or agents, or 
any other person. 
(b) SEVERABILITY.—If any provision of this Act, or 
the application of any provision of this Act to any person 
or circumstance, is held to be invalid, the remainder of 
this Act and the application of the provisions of this Act 
to any other persons or circumstances shall not be affected 
thereby. 
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