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The bill aims to protect and reinforce female-only collegiate athletic opportunities and promote girls' participation, but it does so by creating rules that could exclude transgender women from women's sports and trigger litigation and compliance costs for institutions and taxpayers.
Women students (including collegiate athletes) will have clearer legal protections and reinforced Title IX enforcement to preserve female-only athletic opportunities and promote more equal athletic benefits at federally funded postsecondary institutions.
Girls' athletic participation is highlighted for its health and developmental benefits, which may encourage policies and programs that increase participation and the associated wellbeing advantages for children and youth.
Transgender women and transgender student-athletes could be restricted or excluded from participating in women's collegiate sports, reducing their athletic opportunities and potentially harming mental health and access to college athletics.
Enforcement actions or implementation of sex‑based eligibility rules may prompt litigation and impose compliance, administrative, and potential liability costs on institutions and taxpayers.
Based on analysis of 2 sections of legislative text.
Expresses findings that biological sex differences disadvantage female athletes, criticizes the NCAA policy allowing biological males on women’s rosters, and urges protecting women’s collegiate sports through Title IX enforcement.
Introduced January 15, 2025 by W. Greg Steube · Last progress January 15, 2025
Declares findings that athletic participation benefits girls, credits Title IX for advancing women’s sports at federally funded colleges, and asserts that biological differences between males and females create unfair competitive disadvantages for female athletes. Criticizes a 2010 NCAA policy that allows biological males to compete on women’s rosters, notes that the NAIA restricts women’s teams to those whose biological sex is female, and urges protecting collegiate athletic opportunities for women by enforcing Title IX obligations of member institutions.