Protection of Women and Girls in Sports Act of 2021

Bill: 117-s-251
Sponsor: full_name: Sen. Lee, Mike [R-UT]
Introduced: 2021-02-04
Policy area: Education
Subjects: Athletes

Education programs funding

School athletics

Sex, gender, sexual orientation discrimination
Latest action: action_date: 2021-02-04
text: Read twice and referred to the Committee on Health, Education, Labor, and Pensions.

Summaries:
action_date: 2021-02-04
action_desc: Introduced in Senate
text: <p><b>Protection of Women and Girls in Sports Act of 2021</b></p> <p>This bill makes it a violation of federal law 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.</p> <p>The bill specifies that sex shall be recognized based solely on a person's reproductive biology and genetics at birth.</p>

tv_txt: II 117th CONGRESS 1st Session S. 251 IN THE SENATE OF THE UNITED STATES February 4, 2021 Mr. Lee (for himself, Mr. Lankford , Mr. Cotton , Mrs. Blackburn , Mr. Marshall , Mr. Inhofe , Mr. Hawley , Mr. Cruz , Mr. Cramer , Mr. Tuberville , Mrs. Hyde-Smith , Ms. Ernst , Mrs. Capito , and Mr. Paul ) introduced the following bill; which was read twice and referred to the Committee on Health, Education, Labor, and Pensions 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.

1. Short title This Act may be cited as the Protection of Women and Girls in Sports Act of 2021 . 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. .