119 US Congress She noted that taking legislative action to prevent transgender athletes from playing women's and girls' sports will be a top priority this month.
the house rules eviction The 119th Congress passed this week, and the first step in its order of business is a bill that would trigger revisions to Title IX that would only allow athletes to compete in the sex category they were assigned at birth.
“A bill to amend the Education Amendments of 1972 would provide that for purposes of determining compliance with Title IX in athletics, sex shall be recognized on the basis of a person’s reproductive biology and heredity at birth alone,” the first bullet point in the final resolution. Reads a section of the package.
The package stipulated that the bill would be the first of 12 bills under separate consideration, with one hour of debate.
Republicans regained control of the White House and Senate while holding on to the House in November elections after a heated campaign season in which transgender inclusion in women's sports became a major issue.
President-elect Donald Trump has vowed to impose a complete ban on transgender athletes in women's sports, with near unanimous support from Republican allies.
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Currently, 25 states in the United States have laws in place to restrict or prohibit transgender athletes from competing in women's sports. But the other 25 states have no such laws, and many, like California, have laws in place to enable transgender athletes to compete against women or girls.
But even states that have laws in place to prevent transgender athletes from playing women's sports had their laws overturned by federal judges this year. Judges Landia McCafferty of New Hampshire and M. Hannah Lauck of Virginia enacted provisions in 2024 that enabled biological males to play on high school girls' soccer and tennis teams. Both judges were appointed by former President Obama in early 2010.
Meanwhile, Democrats have backed multiple bills that would allow transgender inclusion in women's sports nationally, including the Equality Act and the Transgender Bill of Rights.
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It is an issue that has drawn intense criticism against Democrats and the Biden administration since the day President Biden took office in January 2021.
On his first day in office he issued a decree Executive order On “preventing and combating discrimination based on gender identity or sexual orientation”. The order included a section that read: “Children should be able to learn without worrying about whether they will be denied access to the bathroom, locker room, or school sports.”
The administration then issued a comprehensive rule clarifying that Title IX's prohibition on “sex-based” discrimination in schools includes discrimination based on gender identity, sexual orientation, and “pregnancy or related circumstances,” in April. The administration insisted that the regulation did not address athletic eligibility. However, many experts Evidence provided She told Fox News Digital in June that she would eventually put more biological men in women's sports.
Multiple states filed lawsuits and enacted their own laws to address this problem, then supreme court They then voted 5-4 in August to reject an emergency request from the Biden administration to impose its sweeping changes in those states.
This issue has proven to be one of the major weaknesses in the campaign for Vice President Harris and Democrats across the country in the past election.
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A National exit poll The Concerned Women for America Legislative Action Committee found that 70% of moderate voters found the issue of Donald Trump's “opposition to transgender boys and men playing girls' and women's sports and transgender boys and men using girls' and women's restrooms” important to them.
6% said it was the most important issue of all, while 44% said it was “very important.”
Many Democrats have since withdrawn their support. The Education Department under Biden has abandoned a proposed rule change that would have occurred Punitive schools To ban transgender athletes from competing in women's sports in December. The rule was proposed in April 2023, but is now just a failed project as Biden prepares to leave office.
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