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The bill provides clearer, privacy-focused locker-room rules for single-sex (birth-defined) groups and administrators but does so by excluding transgender students from facilities that match their gender identity, creating significant rights, mental-health, legal, and cost consequences.
Students who are members of a single-sex (birth-defined) group can use locker rooms without members of the opposite birth sex present, increasing privacy for those students.
Schools and programs that receive federal funds get a categorical, clearer rule on locker-room use, reducing ambiguity for administrators about how to implement facilities policies.
Transgender students would be barred from using locker rooms consistent with their gender identity, reducing their access to school and college facilities and singling them out.
Students denied access to facilities matching their gender identity may face increased mental-health and safety harms, including isolation, stress, or vulnerability.
Schools may face increased litigation and compliance challenges from disputes over Title IX definitions and other anti-discrimination laws, raising legal risk for districts and colleges.
Based on analysis of 3 sections of legislative text.
Bars individuals from using locker rooms in federally funded education programs if their sex (defined by reproductive biology and genetics at birth) differs from others using the room.
Official title: To provide that for purposes of determining compliance with title IX of the Education Amendments of 1972, locker room facilities in active use in connection with an education program or activity may be in use only by individuals of the same sex as determined solely on each individual's reproductive biology and genetics at birth.
Introduced March 27, 2025 by Mary E. Miller · Last progress March 27, 2025
Prohibits a person of one sex, defined only by reproductive biology and genetics at birth, from using a locker room when it is in active use by people of a different sex in any education program or activity that receives federal funding under Title IX. The rule takes effect 30 days after enactment and applies across federally funded schools and education programs. The bill defines “sex” strictly as reproductive biology and genetics at birth and makes locker-room access by a person of one sex unlawful when the locker room is being used by people of a different sex, for any recipient of federal education funds subject to Title IX protections.