Protection of Women and Girls in Sports Act of 2025

Bill: 119-s-9
Sponsor: full_name: Sen. Tuberville, Tommy [R-AL]
Introduced: 2025-01-07
Policy area: Sports and Recreation
Subjects: Athletes

Education programs funding

School athletics

Sex, gender, sexual orientation discrimination
Latest action: action_date: 2025-03-03
text: Cloture on the motion to proceed to the measure not invoked in Senate by Yea-Nay Vote. 51 - 45. Record Vote Number: 100. (CR S1455-1456)

Summaries:
action_date: 2025-01-07
action_desc: Introduced in Senate
text: <p><strong>Protection of Women and Girls in Sports Act of 2025</strong></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,<em> sex</em> is based on an individual's reproductive biology and genetics at birth.</p>

tv_txt: II Calendar No. 2 119th CONGRESS 1st Session S. 9 IN THE SENATE OF THE UNITED STATES January 7, 2025 Mr. Tuberville (for himself, Mr. Risch , Mr. Johnson , Mr. Tillis , Mrs. Capito , Mr. Cramer , Mrs. Hyde-Smith , Mr. Cotton , Mr. Crapo , Mr. Lankford , Mr. Daines , Mr. Marshall , Mr. Lee , Mr. Kennedy , Mr. Hagerty , Mr. Schmitt , Mr. Budd , Mr. Sheehy , Ms. Lummis , Mr. Barrasso , Mr. Paul , Mr. Graham , Mr. Scott of Florida , Ms. Ernst , Mrs. Britt , Mr. Ricketts , Mr. Sullivan , Mrs. Blackburn , Mr. Wicker , Mr. Banks and Mr. Scott of South Carolina ) introduced the following bill; which was read the first time January 8, 2025 Read the second time and placed on the calendar 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 2025 . 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. .

January 8, 2025 Read the second time and placed on the calendar