On Passage — H R 28 — Protection of Women and Girls in Sports Act

In plain language

• This House bill from the 119th Congress is titled the Protection of Women and Girls in Sports Act of 2025. Official subject tags include athletes, education program funding, school athletics, sex and gender discrimination, and civil rights.
• The official summary says school athletic programs generally could not allow people whose biological sex at birth was male to take part in programs for women or girls.
• It would be a violation of Title IX of the Education Amendments of 1972 for federally funded education programs or activities to operate, sponsor, or facilitate athletic programs that allow individuals of the male sex to participate in programs designated for women or girls.
• Title IX is described as barring sex discrimination in federally funded education programs, including public elementary and secondary schools and colleges. Under the bill, sex would be based on an individual’s reproductive biology and genetics at birth.
• Male individuals could still train or practice with women’s or girls’ programs if that does not deprive any female of corresponding opportunities or benefits.
• The Government Accountability Office would report on benefits for women or girls in single-sex sports that would be lost if males participate, and the official summary says that report must document psychological, developmental, participatory, and sociological effects of male participation on girls.