Safety and Opportunity for Girls Act of 2021

Safety and Opportunity for Girls Act of 2021

This bill addresses protections related to sex and sex-segregated spaces. Sex is defined as sex determined solely by a person's reproductive biology and genetics at birth.

The bill prohibits construing the provisions of title IX of the Education Amendments of 1972 in a manner that would require forgoing the maintenance of sex-segregated spaces (such as bathrooms) and of sex-segregated athletic or academic programs by educational institutions.

[Congressional Bills 117th Congress]
[From the U.S. Government Publishing Office]
[H.R. 1417 Introduced in House (IH)]

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117th CONGRESS
  1st Session
                                H. R. 1417

To clarify protections related to sex and sex-segregated spaces and to 
     activities under title IX of the Education Amendments of 1972.


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                    IN THE HOUSE OF REPRESENTATIVES

                           February 26, 2021

Mrs. Miller of Illinois (for herself, Mrs. Greene of Georgia, Mr. Joyce 
 of Pennsylvania, Mr. Grothman, Mr. Duncan, Mr. Good of Virginia, Mr. 
  Weber of Texas, Mr. Lamborn, Mr. Harris, Mr. Cline, Mr. Brooks, Mr. 
  Roy, Mr. Norman, Mr. Steube, Mr. Guest, Ms. Herrell, Mr. Babin, Mr. 
   Aderholt, Mrs. Boebert, Mr. Palmer, Mr. Owens, Mr. Clyde, and Mr. 
  Davidson) introduced the following bill; which was referred to the 
                    Committee on Education and Labor

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                                 A BILL


 
To clarify protections related to sex and sex-segregated spaces and to 
     activities under title IX of the Education Amendments of 1972.

    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 ``Safety and Opportunity for Girls Act 
of 2021''.

SEC. 2. AMENDMENT TO TITLE IX OF THE EDUCATION AMENDMENTS OF 1972.

    Section 901 of title IX of the Education Amendments of 1972 (20 
U.S.C. 1681) is amended by adding at end the following:
    ``(d) For purposes of this title--
            ``(1) the term `sex' means sex determined solely by a 
        person's reproductive biology and genetics at birth; and
            ``(2) the term `sex-segregated' means limited to or 
        separated by sex.
    ``(e) Nothing in this title may be construed--
            ``(1) to prohibit, to authorize the Secretary to prohibit, 
        or to authorize the Secretary to make receipt of funding under 
        this title contingent upon an educational institution forgoing 
        the maintenance of sex-segregated spaces by educational 
        institutions, including bathrooms and locker rooms; or
            ``(2) to prohibit, to authorize the Secretary to prohibit, 
        or to authorize the Secretary to make receipt of funding under 
        this title contingent upon an educational institution forgoing 
        the maintenance of sex-segregated athletic or academic programs 
        by educational institutions.''.
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