Protection of Women and Girls in Sports Act of 2025
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1Short title
This section states that the Act may be cited as the Protection of Women and Girls in Sports Act of 2025.
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1. Short title This Act may be cited as the Protection of Women and Girls in Sports Act of 2025 .
2Amendment
This section would amend Section 901 of the Education Amendments of 1972 (20 U.S.C. 1681, the Title IX law) by adding a new subsection (d). Under the new subsection, it would be a violation of Title IX for a recipient of federal financial assistance that operates, sponsors, or facilitates an athletic program or activity to permit a person whose sex is male to participate in an athletic program or activity designated for women or girls. For this purpose, a person's sex would be recognized based solely on their reproductive biology and genetics at birth. The term athletic programs and activities would include, but not be limited to, all programs or activities provided on the condition of participating with any athletic team. The new subsection would not stop a recipient from letting males train or practice with an athletic program or activity designated for women or girls, as long as doing so does not deprive any female of a roster spot on a team or sport, an opportunity to participate in a practice or competition, a scholarship, admission to an educational institution, or any other benefit that comes with participating in the athletic program or activity. The Comptroller General would be required to carry out a study to determine the meaning of any other benefit as used in that training and practice exception, by examining the benefits to women and girls from participating in single-sex sports that would be lost by allowing males to participate. The study would have to document the adverse psychological, developmental, participatory, and sociological effects on girls of allowing males to compete in, be members of a team in, or participate in athletic programs designed for girls, including displacement or discouragement from sports participation, loss of a roster spot on a team or sport, loss of the opportunity to participate in a practice or competition, loss of a scholarship or scholarship opportunities, loss or displacement of admission to an educational institution, loss of the benefit of an environment free of hostility based on sexual assault or harassment, or loss of any other benefit that accompanies participating in the athletic program or activity. The Comptroller General would then have to submit a report containing the results of the study to the House Committee on Education and Workforce and the Senate Committee on Health, Education, Labor, and Pensions.
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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 financial assistance who operates, sponsors, or facilitates an athletic program or activity 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 the purposes of this subsection, sex shall be recognized based solely on a person’s reproductive biology and genetics at birth. (3) For the purposes of this subsection, the term athletic programs and activities includes, but is not limited to, all programs or activities that are provided conditional upon participation with any athletic team. (4) Nothing in this subsection shall be construed to prohibit a recipient from permitting males to train or practice with an athletic program or activity that is designated for women or girls so long as no female is deprived of a roster spot on a team or sport, opportunity to participate in a practice or competition, scholarship, admission to an educational institution, or any other benefit that accompanies participating in the athletic program or activity. (5) The Comptroller General shall carry out a study to determine the meaning of the phrase any other benefit as used in paragraph (4) by looking at benefits to women or girls of participating in single sex sports that would be lost by allowing males to participate. The study shall document the adverse psychological, developmental, participatory, and sociological results to girls of allowing males to compete, be members of a sports team, or participants in athletic programs, that are designed for girls, including displacement or discouragement from sports participation, deprivation of a roster spot on a team or sport, loss of the opportunity to participate in a practice or competition, loss of a scholarship or scholarship opportunities, loss or displacement of admission to an educational institution, deprivation of the benefit of an environment free of hostility based on sexual assault or harassment, or loss of any other benefit that accompanies participating in the athletics program or activity. Further, the Comptroller General shall submit to the Committee on Education and Workforce of the House of Representatives and the Committee on Health, Education, Labor, and Pensions of the Senate a report that contains the results of such study. .
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