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.

The bill specifies that sex shall be recognized based solely on a person's reproductive biology and genetics at birth.

[Congressional Bills 116th Congress]
[From the U.S. Government Publishing Office]
[S. 4649 Introduced in Senate (IS)]

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116th CONGRESS
  2d Session
                                S. 4649

To provide that for purposes of determining compliance with title IX of 
the Education Amendments of 1972 in athletics, sex shall be recognized 
 based solely on a person's reproductive biology and genetics at birth.


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                   IN THE SENATE OF THE UNITED STATES

                           September 22, 2020

Mrs. Loeffler (for herself, Mr. Lee, Mr. Lankford, Mrs. Blackburn, and 
  Mr. Cotton) introduced the following bill; which was read twice and 
  referred to the Committee on Health, Education, Labor, and Pensions

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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 recognized 
 based solely on a person's reproductive biology and genetics at birth.

    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) is 
amended by adding at the end the following:
    ``(d)(1) 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.
    ``(2) For purposes of this subsection, sex shall be recognized 
based solely on a person's reproductive biology and genetics at 
birth.''.
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