Protection of Women and Girls in Sports Act of 2025
Latest action (Jan 15, 2025) — Received in the Senate.
What it does
Congressional Research Service, Jan 3, 2025This 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.
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, sex is based on an individual's reproductive biology and genetics at birth.
The bill does not prohibit male individuals from training or practicing with programs or activities for women or girls as long as such training or practice does not deprive any female of corresponding opportunities or benefits.
The Government Accountability Office must report on the benefits for women or girls in single-sex sports that would be lost as a result of male participation. In particular, the report must document the negative psychological, developmental, participatory, and sociological effects of male participation on girls.
Face Value
as passed the HouseHow much of this bill its name accounts for.
- Every bill starts at100
- Nothing counted against it: one area of law, and short enough that length doesn't register.
Face Value measures reach, not honesty. A big bill can be accurately named, and a low score is not an accusation — it means the contents reach further than any short title could describe. Count it yourself ↗ How this is worked out
What Congress did
2 recordeddecisive vote
House · Jan 14, 2025
Whether the bill passes the House. This is the vote most people mean.
On
House · Jan 14, 2025
The minority party's last attempt to change the bill by sending it back to committee. It usually fails and is usually about forcing an awkward vote.
Who lobbied on this
3 organizationsThese organizations told Congress, in their own quarterly disclosures, that they were lobbying on this bill.
- Reproductive Freedom for Allwanted it passed
“…H.R.28 and S.9, Protection of Women and Girls in Sports Act of…” filing ↗
- Human Rights Campaignno position stated
“…S. Res. 22: Concerning the National Collegiate Athletic Association policy for eligibility in women's sports. H.R.…” filing ↗
- National Education Associationno position stated
“…HEA (Higher Education Act) Native American Schools H.R. 1331 - Teacher and School Leader Quality Partnership Grants Act H.R. 28 - protecting women and girls in sports act H.R. 649 - Department of Energy Standardization Act of 1997 H. RES 267 - Recognizing the 10th…” filing ↗
Most filings say only that an organization lobbied on a bill, not which side it took — where that's the case we say so rather than guessing. Quotes are verbatim from the filing. How this is built.
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