S 9 — Congress 119
Protection of Women and Girls in Sports Act of 2025
Official source: https://www.congress.gov/bill/119th-congress/senate-bill/9
Congress.gov subjects: Athletes; Education programs funding; School athletics; Sex, gender, sexual orientation discrimination; Sports and Recreation
Issues impacted: Education (ai, high)
Official bill text (stored)
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119 S9 PCS: Protection of Women and Girls in Sports Act of 2025 U.S. Senate 2025-01-08 text/xml EN Pursuant to Title 17 Section 105 of the United States Code, this file is not subject to copyright protection and is in the public domain. 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
Plain-English summary
Confidence: high · Complexity: simple · Model: grok-4.5
This bill is a short add-on to Title IX—the big federal rule that bars sex discrimination in schools that take federal money—and it only covers sports.
It says a school or program breaks the law if it lets someone whose sex is male join a team or activity set aside for women or girls. For that rule, “sex” means only reproductive biology and genetics at birth. Nothing else.
Schools, colleges, and other federally funded programs that run separate girls’ or women’s sports would have to follow it. Athletes, coaches, and families in those programs would feel it most. The rest of Title IX stays as is; this just locks the athletics piece to birth sex.
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| Issue | Yea advances | Nay advances | Note |
|---|---|---|---|
| Education | Sex-based athletics eligibility | Gender-identity-inclusive participation | Yea codifies birth-sex-only eligibility for women/girls’ federally funded athletics; Nay opposes that federal sex-based bar and prefers identity-inclusive or non-federal rules. |