Protection of Women and Girls in Sports Act of 2021

Protection of Women and Girls in Sports Act of 2021

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 117th Congress]
[From the U.S. Government Publishing Office]
[H.R. 426 Introduced in House (IH)]

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117th CONGRESS
  1st Session
                                H. R. 426

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 HOUSE OF REPRESENTATIVES

                            January 21, 2021

Mr. Steube (for himself, Mrs. Lesko, Mr. Banks, Mr. LaMalfa, Mr. Allen, 
Mr. Hern, Mrs. Greene of Georgia, Mr. Cawthorn, Mr. Gaetz, Mr. Brooks, 
 Mr. Moore of Alabama, Mr. Good of Virginia, Mr. Johnson of Ohio, and 
 Mr. Duncan) 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 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 2021''.

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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