Protection of Women and Girls in Sports Act of 2020

Protection of Women and Girls in Sports Act of 2020

This bill makes it a violation of federal law for a recipient of federal funds who operates, sponsors, or facilitates athletic programs or activities to permit a person whose sex is male to participate in an athletic program or activity that is designated for women or girls.

[Congressional Bills 116th Congress]
[From the U.S. Government Publishing Office]
[H.R. 5702 Introduced in House (IH)]

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116th CONGRESS
  2d Session
                                H. R. 5702

To provide that for purposes of determining compliance with title IX of 
the Education Amendments of 1972 in athletics, sex shall be determined 
 on the basis of biological sex as determined at birth by a physician.


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                    IN THE HOUSE OF REPRESENTATIVES

                            January 29, 2020

    Mr. Steube (for himself, Mrs. Lesko, Mr. Hagedorn, Mr. Joyce of 
Pennsylvania, Mr. King of Iowa, Mr. Banks, Mr. Rouzer, and Mr. Fulcher) 
 introduced the following bill; which was referred to the Committee on 
                          Education and Labor

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                                 A BILL


 
To provide that for purposes of determining compliance with title IX of 
the Education Amendments of 1972 in athletics, sex shall be determined 
 on the basis of biological sex as determined at birth by a physician.

    Be it enacted by the Senate and House of Representatives of the 
United States of America in Congress assembled,

SECTION 1. SHORT TITLE.

    This Act may be cited as the ``Protection of Women and Girls in 
Sports Act of 2020''.

SEC. 2. AMENDMENT.

    Section 901 of the Education Amendments of 1972 (20 U.S.C. 1681(a)) 
is amended by adding at the end the following:
    ``(d) It shall be a violation of subsection (a) for a recipient of 
Federal funds who operates, sponsors, or facilitates athletic programs 
or activities to permit a person whose sex is male to participate in an 
athletic program or activity that is designated for women or girls.''.
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