As the new Congress gets underway, U.S. Senator James Lankford is working with U.S. Senator Tommy Tuberville to reintroduce the Protection of Women and Girls in Sports Act to preserve Title IX protections for female athletes.
The Protection of Women and Girls in Sports Act:
- Ensures Title IX provisions treat gender as “recognized based solely on a person’s reproductive biology and genetics at birth.”
- Bans recipients of federal funding from operating, sponsoring, or facilitating athletic programs that permit a male to participate in a women’s sporting event.
Lankford says that the Biden Administration has been chipping away at those protections.
“Common sense should tell us that women and girls shouldn’t be forced to compete in sports or share a school locker room with biological males,” said Lankford. “Although the Biden Administration fought to erase biological differences, I want to uphold equal opportunity for the next generation of female athletes.”
