Sponsors (18)
The bill prioritizes preserving sex-separated competitions and gives sporting bodies clear, immediate rules to protect women’s events and existing competitions, but it does so by excluding transgender athletes and creating administrative, legal, inclusion, and potential fiscal risks for schools, governing bodies, and taxpayers.
Cisgender women and girls who compete in sex-separated sports: preserves separate female-category competitions so women keep competing in women-only events and supporters say this protects perceived fairness in sex-separated sports.
National sporting bodies and event organizers: provides a clear statutory rule and continuity for long-standing single-sex amateur events, reducing ambiguity about federal expectations and avoiding sudden cancellation or reclassification of scheduled competitions.
Event organizers and participating athletes (especially at schools and colleges): reduces immediate disruption and potential financial losses for events already on governing-body calendars by preserving current categories and eligibility for those competitions.
Transgender and gender-diverse athletes: would be barred from or excluded from female-category competitions, limiting their opportunities to participate in sports consistent with their gender identity.
Colleges, schools, and athletic programs: face increased administrative burden, the potential for excluding students from teams matching their gender identity, and higher risk of litigation over eligibility and nondiscrimination conflicts.
Organizations, state governments, and taxpayers: could incur legal costs and litigation risk defending or implementing rigid single-sex rules that may conflict with existing federal, state, or local nondiscrimination laws and court rulings.
Based on analysis of 3 sections of legislative text.
Requires Olympic-related organizations to limit competition entry to athletes based on new statutory sex definitions and protects continued sanctioning of prior single-sex events.
Introduced February 9, 2026 by Michael Cloud · Last progress February 9, 2026
Adds a requirement that certain national Olympic-related organizations limit athlete eligibility to events that correspond to an athlete’s sex as defined in federal statute, and inserts statutory definitions of “sex,” “male,” and “female.” It also requires national governing bodies to continue sanctioning previously sanctioned single-sex competitions (male-only or female-only) that meet sanctioning rules and were held or sanctioned in the prior 10 years, and forbids rescinding or changing sex-based categories for such pre-sanctioned events except to comply with the new eligibility rule. The bill does not provide new funding and does not prohibit mixed-sex competitions.