S 9 · 119th Congress 2025–2027

Protection of Women and Girls in Sports Act of 2025

Fact sheet

Latest action · Mar 3, 2025 Cloture on the motion to proceed to the measure not invoked in Senate by Yea-Nay Vote. 51 - 45. Record Vote Number: 100. (CR S1455-1456)

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.

  1. IntroducedJan 7, 2025
  2. Passed SenateNot reached
  3. Passed HouseNot reached
  4. To the PresidentNot reached
  5. 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.

Recorded votes 1

Newest first. Open one to see how every member voted.

Roll callQuestionResultDate
Senate 100Cloture on the Motion to Proceed Rejected51–45Mar 3, 2025

Cosponsors 44

Members who signed on, in the order they did. Signatures ran from Jan 7, 2025 to Aug 4, 2026, with 30 there on the day it was introduced.

SeatCosponsorSigned on
R-TNBill HagertyOriginalJan 7, 2025
R-MSCindy Hyde-SmithOriginalJan 7, 2025
R-WYCynthia M. LummisOriginalJan 7, 2025
R-AKDan SullivanOriginalJan 7, 2025
R-MOEric SchmittOriginalJan 7, 2025
R-IDJames E. RischOriginalJan 7, 2025
R-OKJames LankfordOriginalJan 7, 2025
R-INJim BanksOriginalJan 7, 2025
R-WYJohn BarrassoOriginalJan 7, 2025
R-LAJohn KennedyOriginalJan 7, 2025
R-IAJoni ErnstOriginalJan 7, 2025
R-ALKatie Boyd BrittOriginalJan 7, 2025
R-NDKevin CramerOriginalJan 7, 2025
R-SCLindsey GrahamOriginalJan 7, 2025
R-TNMarsha BlackburnOriginalJan 7, 2025

Actions 7

Everything that happened, newest first.

  1. Mar 3, 2025Cloture on the motion to proceed to the measure not invoked in Senate by Yea-Nay Vote. 51 - 45. Record Vote Number: 100. (CR S1455-1456)
  2. Mar 3, 2025Motion to proceed to measure considered in Senate. (CR S1455)
  3. Feb 27, 2025Cloture motion on the motion to proceed to the measure presented in Senate. (CR S1434)
  4. Feb 27, 2025Motion to proceed to consideration of measure made in Senate.
  5. Jan 8, 2025Read the second time. Placed on Senate Legislative Calendar under General Orders. Calendar No. 2.

Related bills 3

Companion bills and other measures the record links to this one.

BillTitleRelationshipLatest action
S 251Protection of Women and Girls in Sports Act of 2021Cross-Congress related billFeb 4, 2021
HR 426Protection of Women and Girls in Sports Act of 2021Cross-Congress related billApr 26, 2022
S 613Protection of Women and Girls in Sports Act of 2023Cross-Congress related billMar 1, 2023

Subjects

Assigned by the Library of Congress. Policy area: Sports and Recreation.

Text 1

Each version as it was printed, newest first.

  1. Jan 8, 2025Placed on Calendar Senate

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