IV 
118TH CONGRESS 
1ST SESSION 
H. RES. 536 
Supporting the designation of the week including June 23, 2023, as ‘‘National 
Women’s Sports Week’’ to celebrate the anniversary of the passage 
of title IX and the growth of women’s sports. 
IN THE HOUSE OF REPRESENTATIVES 
JUNE 22, 2023 
Ms. TENNEY (for herself, Mr. NORMAN, Ms. MACE, Mr. C. SCOTT FRANKLIN 
of Florida, Mrs. LESKO, Mr. WEBER of Texas, and Mrs. MILLER of Illi-
nois) submitted the following resolution; which was referred to the Com-
mittee on Education and the Workforce 
RESOLUTION 
Supporting the designation of the week including June 23, 
2023, as ‘‘National Women’s Sports Week’’ to celebrate 
the anniversary of the passage of title IX and the growth 
of women’s sports. 
Whereas Congress passed title IX of the Education Amend-
ments on June 23, 1972, to end unjust sex discrimina-
tion in education, including in athletics; 
Whereas title IX transformed sports by guaranteeing women 
and girls the right to equal athletic opportunities; 
Whereas title IX’s purpose and benefit are negated for 
women whenever men claiming to be women are granted 
access to female sports; 
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•HRES 536 IH 
Whereas title IX has resulted in a 545-percent increase in the 
percentage of women playing college sports and a 990- 
percent increase in the percentage of women playing high 
school sports; 
Whereas athletic participation helps women and girls develop 
confidence, initiative, and leadership skills; 
Whereas policies allowing for the inclusion of men in women’s 
sports have no substantiation in biological fact or valid 
medical research; 
Whereas providing equal athletic opportunities in sports to 
women is impossible without single-sex teams and com-
petitions reserved exclusively for females; 
Whereas without separate single-sex teams and competitions 
based on biological sex for men and women, men will 
dominate competitive sports where size, strength, and 
speed are factors, depriving female athletes of athletic 
and academic opportunities; 
Whereas the biological differences between men and women 
have led to women being injured by men competing in 
women’s sports; 
Whereas, since 2017, men have won at least 24 professional 
women’s sports titles and an innumerable number of un-
reported titles at the middle school, high school, and col-
legiate levels; 
Whereas, in 2018, at least 300 high school-aged boys in the 
United States ran the 400-meter dash faster than the 
most decorated female Olympic champion in the world 
has run it in her lifetime; and 
Whereas the week of June 18 through June 24 is ‘‘National 
Women’s Sports Week’’: Now, therefore, be it 
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•HRES 536 IH 
Resolved, That the House of Representatives sup-
ports— 
(1) observing ‘‘National Women’s Sports Week’’ 
to recognize— 
(A) the incredible expansion of opportuni-
ties for female athletes since the enactment of 
title IX in 1972 of the Education Amendments 
of 1972 (20 U.S.C. 1681 et seq.); and 
(B) the role of the provisions of law de-
scribed in subparagraph (A) in guaranteeing 
equal athletic opportunities for members of both 
sexes; and 
(2) marking the observance of National Wom-
en’s Sports Week with— 
(A) appropriate programs and activities 
that— 
(i) celebrate the contributions of indi-
vidual female athletes in the United States; 
(ii) honor the coaches and parents 
who support female athletes in the United 
States; 
(iii) promote equal access to athletic 
opportunities for members of both sexes; 
and 
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•HRES 536 IH 
(iv) support the commitment of the 
United States to supporting female ath-
letes; and 
(B) legislative efforts to protect single-sex 
sports. 
Æ 
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