The 119th U.S. Congress will focus on passing legislation that bans transgender athletes from competing in women's and girls' sports. This follows a heated election season where trans inclusion in women's sports was a key issue for Republicans.
The 119th U.S. Congress has stated that taking legislative action to ban trans athletes from women's and girls' sports will be a top priority this month. The House rules package for the 119th Congress was posted this week, and the first step in its order of business is a bill that would bring about Title IX revisions that would only allow athletes to compete in the gender category that they were assigned at birth.
'A bill to amend the Education Amendments of 1972 to provide that for purposes of determining compliance with title IX of such Act in athletics, sex shall be recognized based solely on a person’s reproductive biology and genetics at birth,' the first point in the final section of the package reads. The package stated that the bill would be the first of 12 bills under separate consideration, with one hour of debate. Republicans re-took control of the White House and Senate while retaining the House of Representatives in November's election after a heated campaign season in which trans inclusion in women's sports became a key issue. President-elect Donald Trump pledged to instill a full-on ban on trans athletes in women's sports to the near unanimous support of Republican allies. Currently, 25 states in the U.S. have laws in place to restrict or prevent trans athletes from competing in women's sports. But the other 25 states have no such laws and many, like California, even have laws in place to specifically enable trans athletes to compete against women or girls. But even the states with laws in place to prevent trans athletes in women's sports have had their laws overridden by federal judges this year. Judges Landya McCafferty of New Hampshire and M. Hannah Lauck of Virginia each passed rulings 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 the early 2010
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