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Protection of Women and Girls in Sports Act of 2025
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.
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- Passed Senate
- Passed House
- To President
- Became law
Summary
Protection of Women and Girls in Sports Act of 2025
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.
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.
Summary by the Congressional Research Service, Library of Congress.
Roll-call votes
- Motion to Invoke Cloture: Motion to Proceed to S. 9On Cloture on the Motion to Proceed S. 9Cloture on the Motion to Proceed Rejected51–45R 51–0 D 0–43 I 0–2
Actions
- Mar 3, 2025 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)
- Mar 3, 2025 Motion to proceed to measure considered in Senate. (CR S1455)
- Feb 27, 2025 Cloture motion on the motion to proceed to the measure presented in Senate. (CR S1434)
- Feb 27, 2025 Motion to proceed to consideration of measure made in Senate.
- Jan 8, 2025 Read the second time. Placed on Senate Legislative Calendar under General Orders. Calendar No. 2.
- Jan 7, 2025 Introduced in the Senate. Read the first time. Placed on Senate Legislative Calendar under Read the First Time.
- Jan 7, 2025 Introduced in Senate
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