Protection of Women and Girls in Sports Act of 2025
Introduced Jan 3, 2025 by Rep. W. Gregory Steube
The House passed it. The Senate has to pass it before it can reach the President.
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.
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.
Summary by the Congressional Research Service.
- Jan 15, 2025Received in the Senate.
- Jan 14, 2025Motion to reconsider laid on the table Agreed to without objection.
- Jan 14, 2025On passage Passed by the Yeas and Nays: 218 - 206, 1 Present (Roll no. 12). (text: CR H126)
- Jan 14, 2025Passed/agreed to in House: On passage Passed by the Yeas and Nays: 218 - 206, 1 Present (Roll no. 12). (text: CR H126)
- Jan 14, 2025On motion to recommit Failed by the Yeas and Nays: 208 - 218 (Roll no. 11).
- Jan 14, 2025Considered as unfinished business. (consideration: CR H139-140)
- Jan 14, 2025POSTPONED PROCEEDINGS - At the conclusion of debate on H.R. 28, the Chair put the question on the motion to recommit and announced that the noes had prevailed. Ms. Adams demanded the yeas and nays and the Chair postponed further proceedings until a time to be announced.
- Jan 14, 2025The previous question on the motion to recommit was ordered pursuant to clause 2(b) of rule XIX.
- Jan 14, 2025Ms. Adams moved to recommit to the Committee on Education and Workforce. (text: CR H137)
- Jan 14, 2025The previous question was ordered pursuant to the rule.
- Jan 14, 2025DEBATE - The House proceeded with one hour of debate on H.R. 28.
- Jan 14, 2025Considered under the provisions of rule H. Res. 5. (consideration: CR H126-138)
- Jan 3, 2025Referred to the House Committee on Education and Workforce.
- Jan 3, 2025Introduced in House