Protection of Women and Girls in Sports Act of 2025
Latest action · Jan 15, 2025 Received in the Senate.
Progress
Where this bill reached, and when. A stage with no date was not reached; one that failed a vote and later carried shows the date it carried.
- IntroducedJan 3, 2025
- Passed HouseJan 14, 2025
- Passed SenateNot reached
- To the PresidentNot reached
- Became lawNot reached
Summary
Protection of Women and Girls in Sports Act of 2025
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.
Recorded votes 2
Newest first. Open one to see how every member voted.
| Roll call | Question | Result | Date |
|---|---|---|---|
| House 12 | On Passage | Passed218–206 | Jan 14, 2025 |
| House 11 | On Motion to Recommit | Failed208–218 | Jan 14, 2025 |
Cosponsors 83
Members who signed on, in the order they did. Signatures ran from Jan 3, 2025 to Jan 14, 2025; 56 are original cosponsors, there from the day it was introduced.
| Seat | Cosponsor | Signed on | |
|---|---|---|---|
| R-FL | Aaron Bean | Original | Jan 3, 2025 |
| R-TN | Andrew Ogles | Original | Jan 3, 2025 |
| R-AZ | Andy Biggs | Original | Jan 3, 2025 |
| R-GA | Austin Scott | Original | Jan 3, 2025 |
| R-MI | Bill Huizenga | Original | Jan 3, 2025 |
| R-MN | Brad Finstad | Original | Jan 3, 2025 |
| R-TX | Brian Babin | Original | Jan 3, 2025 |
| R-UT | Burgess Owens | Original | Jan 3, 2025 |
| R-WV | Carol D. Miller | Original | Jan 3, 2025 |
| R-TN | Charles J. "Chuck" Fleischmann | Original | Jan 3, 2025 |
| R-NJ | Christopher H. Smith | Original | Jan 3, 2025 |
| R-LA | Clay Higgins | Original | Jan 3, 2025 |
| R-TX | Dan Crenshaw | Original | Jan 3, 2025 |
| R-PA | Daniel Meuser | Original | Jan 3, 2025 |
| R-FL | Daniel Webster | Original | Jan 3, 2025 |
Committees 1
Where it was sent and what each committee and subcommittee did with it, in order.
| Chamber | Committee | What it did |
|---|---|---|
| House | Education and Workforce Committee | Referred Jan 3, 2025 Jan 14, 2025 |
Actions 13
Everything that happened, newest first.
- Jan 15, 2025Received in the Senate.
- Jan 14, 2025Considered under the provisions of rule H. Res. 5. (consideration: CR H126-138)
- Jan 14, 2025DEBATE - The House proceeded with one hour of debate on H.R. 28.
- Jan 14, 2025The previous question was ordered pursuant to the rule.
- Jan 14, 2025Ms. Adams moved to recommit to the Committee on Education and Workforce. (text: CR H137)
- Jan 14, 2025The previous question on the motion to recommit was ordered pursuant to clause 2(b) of rule XIX.
- 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, 2025Considered as unfinished business. (consideration: CR H139-140)
- Jan 14, 2025On motion to recommit Failed by the Yeas and Nays: 208 - 218 (Roll no. 11).
- 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, 2025Motion to reconsider laid on the table Agreed to without objection.
- Jan 3, 2025Introduced in House
- Jan 3, 2025Referred to the House Committee on Education and Workforce.
In the Congressional Record 9
Days the Record’s own index lists this bill, newest first, with the pages and the members it names. Pages starting H are the House, S the Senate, E Extensions of Remarks.
| Where | In the Record | Members | Date |
|---|---|---|---|
| House | Debate and remarks H712 | Mark Harris R-NC | Jan 13, 2026 |
| House | Debate and remarks H949 | Mariannette Miller-Meeks R-IA | Mar 4, 2025 |
| House | Debate and remarks H492 | Doug LaMalfa R-CA, Glenn Grothman R-WI | Feb 5, 2025 |
| Extensions | Debate and remarks E74 | Al Green D-TX | Jan 28, 2025 |
| House | Debate and remarks H272 | Mary Gay Scanlon D-PA | Jan 22, 2025 |
Research
What has been written about this bill: committee reports, cost estimates, the sponsor’s authority statement, printed hearings and the Congressional Research Service’s work.
Constitutional authority
The sponsor’s statement, as printed in the Congressional Record, vol. 171, no. 1, January 3, 2025, page H36.
CRS reports 1
Congressional Research Service work that CRS links to this bill or the law it became, newest first.
Cite it 1
Products on other subjects that cite it, usually among other measures.
| Product | Title | Kind | Published |
|---|---|---|---|
| R48448 | Gender and School Sports: Federal Action and Legal Challenges to State Laws | Report | Sep 15, 2026 |
Related bills 1
Companion bills and other measures the record links to this one.
| Bill | Title | Relationship | Latest action |
|---|---|---|---|
| HRES 5 | Adopting the Rules of the House of Representatives for the One Hundred Nineteenth Congress, and for other purposes. | Related bill | Jan 3, 2025 |
Titles 4
Every title it has carried, official and short, at each stage.
- Official Title as Introduced
- 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.
- Short Title(s) as Introduced
- Protection of Women and Girls in Sports Act of 2025
- Short Title(s) as Passed House
- Protection of Women and Girls in Sports Act of 2025
- Official Title from EH (Engrossed in House) bill text
- 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.
Subjects
Assigned by the Library of Congress. Policy area: Civil Rights and Liberties, Minority Issues.
Text 2
Each version as it was printed, newest first.
- Jan 14, 2025Engrossed in House
- Jan 3, 2025Introduced in House
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