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[H.R. 3950 Introduced in House (IH)]
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119th CONGRESS
1st Session
H. R. 3950
To defend women's rights and protect freedom of conscience by using
clear and accurate language and policies recognizing that women are
biologically female and men are biologically male, and for other
purposes.
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IN THE HOUSE OF REPRESENTATIVES
June 12, 2025
Mr. Carter of Georgia introduced the following bill; which was referred
to the Committee on the Judiciary, and in addition to the Committees on
Oversight and Government Reform, Foreign Affairs, Financial Services,
Education and Workforce, Homeland Security, and Ways and Means, for a
period to be subsequently determined by the Speaker, in each case for
consideration of such provisions as fall within the jurisdiction of the
committee concerned
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A BILL
To defend women's rights and protect freedom of conscience by using
clear and accurate language and policies recognizing that women are
biologically female and men are biologically male, and for other
purposes.
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 ``Truth in Gender Act of 2025''.
SEC. 2. DEFINITIONS.
(a) In General.--For purposes of this Act:
(1) Sex.--The term ``sex''--
(A) means an individual's immutable biological
classification as either male or female; and
(B) is not a synonym for, and does not include, the
concept of gender identity.
(2) Women, woman; girls, girl.--The term ``women'' or
``woman'' and the term ``girls'' or ``girl'' mean an adult or
juvenile human female, respectively.
(3) Men, man; boys, boy.--The term ``men'' or ``man'' and
the term ``boys'' or ``boy'' mean an adult or juvenile human
male, respectively.
(4) Female.--The term ``female'' means a person belonging,
at conception, to the sex that produces the large reproductive
cell.
(5) Male.--The term ``male'' means a person belonging, at
conception, to the sex that produces the small reproductive
cell.
(b) Gender Ideology; Gender Identity.--Congress finds that--
(1) gender ideology--
(A) replaces the biological category of sex with an
ever-shifting concept of self-assessed gender
identity--
(i) permitting the false claim that males
can identify as and thus become women and vice
versa; and
(ii) requiring all institutions of society
to regard this false claim as true;
(B) includes the idea that there is a vast spectrum
of genders that are disconnected from one's sex; and
(C) is internally inconsistent, in that it
diminishes sex as an identifiable or useful category
but nevertheless maintains that it is possible for a
person to be born in the wrong-sexed body; and
(2) gender identity reflects a fully internal and
subjective sense of self, disconnected from biological reality
and sex and existing on an infinite continuum, that does not
provide a meaningful basis for identification and cannot be
recognized as a replacement for sex.
SEC. 3. RECOGNIZING WOMEN ARE BIOLOGICALLY DISTINCT FROM MEN.
(a) Issuance of HHS Guidance.--Not later than 30 days after the
date of enactment of this Act, the Secretary of Health and Human
Services shall provide to the Federal agencies, and the public clear
guidance expanding on the definitions set forth in section 2.
(b) Enforcement of Sex-Based Rights.--
(1) In general.--The head of a Federal agency and the
employees of such agency shall enforce laws governing sex-based
rights, protections, opportunities, and accommodations to
protect men and women as biologically distinct sexes.
(2) Use of definitions in conducting agency functions.--In
carrying out paragraph (1), head of a Federal agency shall use
the definitions set forth in section 2 when--
(A) interpreting or applying statutes, regulations,
or guidance; and
(B) conducting all other official agency business,
documents, and communications.
(c) Use of Terms in Federal Policies and Documents.--In
administering and enforcing sex-based distinctions, the head of a
Federal agency, and the employees of such agency acting in an official
capacity on behalf of the agency, shall use the term ``sex'' and not
the term ``gender'' in all applicable Federal policies and documents.
(d) Government-Issued Identification Documents; Personnel
Records.--
(1) Identification documents.--The Secretary of State, the
Secretary of Homeland Security, and the Director of the Office
of Personnel Management shall each implement changes to require
that Government-issued identification documents (including
passports, visas, and Global Entry cards) accurately reflect
the holder's sex, as defined under section 2.
(2) Personnel records.--The Director of the Office of
Personnel Management shall ensure that applicable personnel
records accurately report the sex of a Federal employee, as
defined by section 2.
(e) Federal Government Communications and Forms.--
(1) Modification of internal and external messages.--The
head of a Federal agency shall--
(A) remove all statements, policies, regulations,
forms, communications, and other internal and external
messages that promote or otherwise inculcate gender
ideology; and
(B) cease issuing such statements, policies,
regulations, forms, communications, or other messages.
(2) Modification of agency forms.--The head of a Federal
agency--
(A) shall ensure that the forms used by the agency
require an individual's sex to be listed as male or
female; and
(B) may not request gender identity.
(3) Prohibition on use of funds.--The head of a Federal
agency shall take all necessary steps, as permitted by law, to
end the Federal funding of gender ideology.
(f) DOJ Actions.--The Attorney General shall--
(1) promptly issue guidance to the heads of Federal
agencies to correct the misapplication of the Supreme Court's
decision in Bostock v. Clayton County (590 U.S. 644; 2020) to
sex-based distinctions in agency activities; and
(2) issue guidance and assist the heads of Federal agencies
in protecting sex-based distinctions, which are explicitly
permitted under constitutional and statutory precedent.
(g) Prohibition on Use of Funds.--
(1) In general.--Federal funds may not be used to promote
gender ideology.
(2) Grants; grant preferences.--The head of each Federal
agency shall--
(A) assess grant conditions and grantee
preferences; and
(B) ensure that grant funds do not promote gender
ideology.
SEC. 4. PRIVACY IN INTIMATE SPACES.
(a) Detention in Prisons.--The Attorney General and Secretary of
Homeland Security shall each ensure that males are not detained in
women's prisons or housed in women's detention centers, including
through--
(1) amendment, as necessary, of section 115.41 of title 28,
Code of Federal Regulations (or successor regulations); and
(2) interpretation of guidance regarding the Americans with
Disabilities Act of 1990 (Public Law 101-336).
(b) Rescission of HUD Final Rule; Access to Single-Sex Rape
Shelters.--The Secretary of Housing and Urban Development shall--
(1) prepare and submit for notice-and-comment rulemaking a
policy to rescind the final rule entitled ``Equal Access in
Accordance with an Individual's Gender Identity in Community
Planning and Development Programs'' (dated September 21, 2016;
81 Fed. Reg. 64763); and
(2) submit for public comment a policy protecting women
seeking single-sex rape shelters.
(c) Medical Care in Prisons.--The Attorney General shall ensure
that--
(1) the Bureau of Prisons revises its policies concerning
medical care to be consistent with this Act; and
(2) no Federal funds are expended for any medical
procedure, treatment, or drug for the purpose of conforming an
inmate's appearance to that of the opposite sex.
(d) Other Intimate Spaces.--The head of a Federal agency shall take
appropriate action to ensure that intimate spaces designated for women,
girls, or females (or for men, boys, or males) are designated by sex
and not identity.
SEC. 5. PROTECTING RIGHTS.
(a) Freedom To Express the Binary Nature of Sex; Right to Single-
Sex Spaces in Workplaces.--The Attorney General shall issue guidance to
ensure--
(1) the freedom to express the binary nature of sex; and
(2) the right to single-sex spaces in workplaces and
federally funded entities covered by the Civil Rights Act of
1964 (Public Law 88-352).
(b) Prioritization of Investigations and Litigation.--In accordance
with the guidance to be issued under subsection (a), the Attorney
General, the Secretary of Labor, the General Counsel and Chair of the
Equal Employment Opportunity Commission, and each other head of a
Federal agency with enforcement responsibilities under the Civil Rights
Act of 1964 (Public Law 88-352) shall prioritize investigations and
litigation to enforce the rights and freedoms identified.
SEC. 6. AGENCY IMPLEMENTATION AND REPORTING.
(a) Reporting Requirement.--
(1) In general.--Not later than 120 days after the date of
enactment of this Act, the head of each Federal agency shall
submit to the President, acting through the Director of the
Office of Management and Budget, an update on implementation of
this Act.
(2) Contents.--The head of each Federal agency shall
include in the update of the agency to be submitted under
paragraph (1)--
(A) changes to the documents of the agency
(including regulations, guidance, forms, and
communications) made to comply with this Act; and
(B) agency-imposed requirements on federally funded
entities, including contractors, to achieve the policy
of this Act.
(b) Relationship to Other Laws.--The requirements of this Act
supersede conflicting provisions in any other law.
(c) Rescission of Certain Guidance Documents.--
(1) In general.--The head of a Federal agency shall--
(A) promptly rescind all guidance documents of the
agency that are inconsistent with the requirements of
this Act or guidance issued by the Attorney General
pursuant to this Act; or
(B) as appropriate, rescind such parts of such
documents that are inconsistent in such manner.
(2) Included documents.--The documents referred to in
paragraph (1) include each document identified in section 7(c)
of Executive Order 14168, as in effect on the date of enactment
of this Act.
SEC. 7. GENERAL PROVISIONS.
(a) Rights and Benefits.--This Act is not intended to, and does
not, create any right or benefit, substantive or procedural,
enforceable at law or in equity by any party against the United States,
its departments, agencies, or entities, its officers, employees, or
agents, or any other person.
(b) Severability.--If any provision of this Act, or the application
of any provision of this Act to any person or circumstance, is held to
be invalid, the remainder of this Act and the application of the
provisions of this Act to any other persons or circumstances shall not
be affected thereby.
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Introduced in House
Introduced in House
Referred to the Committee on the Judiciary, and in addition to the Committees on Oversight and Government Reform, Foreign Affairs, Financial Services, Education and Workforce, Homeland Security, and Ways and Means, for a period to be subsequently determined by the Speaker, in each case for consideration of such provisions as fall within the jurisdiction of the committee concerned.
Referred to the Committee on the Judiciary, and in addition to the Committees on Oversight and Government Reform, Foreign Affairs, Financial Services, Education and Workforce, Homeland Security, and Ways and Means, for a period to be subsequently determined by the Speaker, in each case for consideration of such provisions as fall within the jurisdiction of the committee concerned.
Referred to the Committee on the Judiciary, and in addition to the Committees on Oversight and Government Reform, Foreign Affairs, Financial Services, Education and Workforce, Homeland Security, and Ways and Means, for a period to be subsequently determined by the Speaker, in each case for consideration of such provisions as fall within the jurisdiction of the committee concerned.
Referred to the Committee on the Judiciary, and in addition to the Committees on Oversight and Government Reform, Foreign Affairs, Financial Services, Education and Workforce, Homeland Security, and Ways and Means, for a period to be subsequently determined by the Speaker, in each case for consideration of such provisions as fall within the jurisdiction of the committee concerned.
Referred to the Committee on the Judiciary, and in addition to the Committees on Oversight and Government Reform, Foreign Affairs, Financial Services, Education and Workforce, Homeland Security, and Ways and Means, for a period to be subsequently determined by the Speaker, in each case for consideration of such provisions as fall within the jurisdiction of the committee concerned.
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Referred to the Committee on the Judiciary, and in addition to the Committees on Oversight and Government Reform, Foreign Affairs, Financial Services, Education and Workforce, Homeland Security, and Ways and Means, for a period to be subsequently determined by the Speaker, in each case for consideration of such provisions as fall within the jurisdiction of the committee concerned.
Referred to the Committee on the Judiciary, and in addition to the Committees on Oversight and Government Reform, Foreign Affairs, Financial Services, Education and Workforce, Homeland Security, and Ways and Means, for a period to be subsequently determined by the Speaker, in each case for consideration of such provisions as fall within the jurisdiction of the committee concerned.