Concerning the National Collegiate Athletic Association policy for eligibility in women's sports.

[Congressional Bills 119th Congress]
[From the U.S. Government Publishing Office]
[H. Res. 47 Introduced in House (IH)]

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119th CONGRESS
  1st Session
H. RES. 47

  Concerning the National Collegiate Athletic Association policy for 
                     eligibility in women's sports.


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                    IN THE HOUSE OF REPRESENTATIVES

                            January 15, 2025

 Mr. Steube (for himself, Ms. Hageman, Mr. Moore of West Virginia, Ms. 
 Boebert, Mr. Webster of Florida, Mr. Owens, Mrs. Miller of Illinois, 
 Ms. Tenney, Mr. Buchanan, Mr. McCormick, Mr. Ellzey, Mr. Norman, and 
 Mr. Guest) submitted the following resolution; which was referred to 
                the Committee on Education and Workforce

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                               RESOLUTION


 
  Concerning the National Collegiate Athletic Association policy for 
                     eligibility in women's sports.

Whereas athletic participation has an important positive impact on young girls, 
        improving their physical, emotional, and psychological health, self-
        confidence, and discipline;
Whereas women have been responsible for some of the greatest athletic feats in 
        the history of sports in the United States, from the Olympic games to 
        professional competition, through opportunities to compete in collegiate 
        sports;
Whereas the enactment of title IX of the Education Amendments of 1972 (20 U.S.C. 
        1681 et seq.) (referred to in this preamble as ``title IX'') marked a 
        pivotal moment in the Federal support of women in sports and applied to 
        virtually all postsecondary institutions as recipients of Federal 
        financial assistance;
Whereas there are fundamental and enduring biological differences between males 
        and females that put females at a competitive disadvantage in sports and 
        jeopardize their safety during competition against males;
Whereas, in 2010, the National Collegiate Athletic Association unilaterally 
        adopted a policy that enables biological males to participate on women's 
        rosters and compete in the women's sports category, a policy that 
        continues today;
Whereas the policy described in the previous proviso disproportionately 
        negatively impacts female athletes;
Whereas the National Association of Intercollegiate Athletics (referred to in 
        this preamble as the ``NAIA'') has instituted new policies to protect 
        biological women in sports and ensure that only student athletes whose 
        biological sex is female will be allowed to compete on NAIA-sponsored 
        women's sports teams;
Whereas it is imperative that opportunities for collegiate women to compete 
        athletically are protected on the basis of sex; and
Whereas member institutions of the National Collegiate Athletic Association have 
        an obligation under title IX to ensure equality of benefits and 
        opportunities in athletic programs on the basis of sex: Now, therefore 
        be it
    Resolved, That the House of Representatives--
            (1) calls on the National Collegiate Athletic Association 
        (referred to in this resolution as ``NCAA'') to revoke its 
        transgender student-athlete eligibility policy that directly 
        discriminates against female student athletes;
            (2) implores the NCAA immediately to protect the integrity 
        of collegiate women's sports by forbidding transgender-
        identifying males to compete on any women's sports roster or in 
        any collegiate competition;
            (3) urges the NCAA to require its member conferences to 
        conform to a biological sex-based policy across all sports and 
        all divisions; and
            (4) calls on all sports-governing bodies in the United 
        States to protect the category of women's sport for biological 
        women and girls.
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