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The bill prioritizes preserving competitive opportunities for cisgender girls and gives schools clearer federal guidance on sex‑segregated athletics, while excluding transgender girls from girls' sports and creating legal and financial risks and reduced opportunities for affected students.
Cisgender women and girls in single-sex school and college athletics keep exclusive access to teams, roster spots, scholarships, and competition opportunities.
Educational institutions receive clearer federal expectations and a single eligibility standard for sex‑segregated athletics, reducing ambiguity about compliance.
A GAO study will compile federal analysis on harms to girls in school sports, creating an evidence base that could inform future policy and safety measures.
Transgender girls are barred from participating on girls' teams, reducing their athletic opportunities, inclusion in school life, and access to related benefits.
Schools and colleges face risk of losing federal funds, incurring litigation, or other financial exposure if they allow transgender girls to play, creating broad financial and compliance pressure on institutions and taxpayers.
The birth‑sex eligibility rule is likely to prompt civil‑rights or equal‑protection legal challenges, producing legal uncertainty, administrative costs, and potential court rulings affecting schools and students.
Based on analysis of 2 sections of legislative text.
Amends Title IX to bar persons identified as male at birth from participating in women’s or girls’ athletic programs and requires a federal study on harms to girls.
Prohibits recipients of federal funds that run athletic programs from allowing someone whose sex is male to compete in teams or events designated for women or girls, defining sex solely by reproductive biology and genetics at birth. It permits males to train or practice with women’s programs only if no female athlete loses roster spots, playing time, scholarships, admission, or other benefits. Requires the Comptroller General to study and report to congressional education committees on documented harms to girls from allowing males to participate in girls’ sports, including injury, participation loss, scholarship impacts, and competition results.
Official title: To amend the Education Amendments of 1972 to provide that for purposes of determining compliance with title IX of such Act in athletics, sex shall be recognized based solely on a person’s reproductive biology and genetics at birth.
Introduced January 3, 2025 by W. Greg Steube · Last progress January 15, 2025