North Dakota 2025-2026 Regular Session

North Dakota Senate Bill SCR4010 Compare Versions

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2	2	Sixty-ninth
3	3	Legislative Assembly
4	4	of North Dakota
5	5	Introduced by
6	6	Senators Myrdal, Van Oosting
7	7	Representatives Frelich, Grindberg, Karls, Steiner
8	8	A concurrent resolution urging the the National Collegiate Athletic Association to revoke its
9	9	transgender student-athlete eligibility policy, which directly discriminates against female student
10	10	athletes in collegiate women's sports.
11	11	WHEREAS, athletic participation has an important, positive impact on young girls,
12	12	improving their physical, emotional, and psychological health, self-confidence, and discipline,
13	13	and providing opportunities for a future in collegiate sports; and
14	14	WHEREAS, women have been responsible for some of the greatest athletic feats in the
15	15	sports history of the United States, from the Olympic games to professional competition,
16	16	through opportunities to compete in collegiate sports; and
17	17	WHEREAS, the enactment of Title-IX of the Education Amendments of 1972 [Pub. L. 92-
18	18	318; 20 U.S.C. 1681 et seq.] marked a pivotal moment in the federal support of women in
19	19	sports and applying to virtually all postsecondary institutions as recipients of federal financial
20	20	assistance; and
21	21	WHEREAS, there are fundamental and enduring biological differences between males and
22	22	females which put women at a competitive disadvantage in sports and jeopardize their safety
23	23	during competition; and
24	24	WHEREAS, in 2010 the National Collegiate Athletic Association (NCAA) unilaterally
25	25	adopted a policy that enables biological males to participate on women's rosters and compete in
26	26	the women's sports category, a policy that continues today; and
27	27	WHEREAS, such a policy disproportionately affects female athletes; and
28	28	WHEREAS, the National Association of Intercollegiate Athletics (NAIA) has instituted new
29	29	policies to protect biological girls in sports and ensure that only student athletes whose
30	30	biological sex is female will be allowed to compete in NAIA-sponsored women's sports teams;
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33	33	SENATE CONCURRENT RESOLUTION NO. 4010
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60	60	WHEREAS, it is imperative that collegiate women's opportunities to compete athletically are
61	61	protected on the basis of sex; and
62	62	WHEREAS, NCAA member institutions have an obligation under Title-IX to ensure equality
63	63	of benefits and opportunities in athletic programs on the basis of sex;
64	64	NOW, THEREFORE, BE IT RESOLVED BY THE SENATE OF NORTH DAKOTA, THE
65	65	HOUSE OF REPRESENTATIVES CONCURRING THEREIN:
66	66	That the Sixty-ninth Legislative Assembly calls on the NCAA to revoke its transgender
67	67	student-athlete eligibility policy, which directly discriminates against female student athletes in
68	68	collegiate women's sports; and
69	69	BE IT FURTHER RESOLVED , that the NCAA protect the integrity of collegiate women's
70	70	sports by forbidding transgender identifying males from competing on any women's sports
71	71	roster or in any collegiate competition; and
72	72	BE IT FURTHER RESOLVED , that the NCAA require its member conferences to conform
73	73	to a biological sex-based policy across all sports and all divisions; and
74	74	BE IT FURTHER RESOLVED , that all sports-governing bodies in the United States protect
75	75	the category of women's sports for biological women and girls; and
76	76	BE IT FURTHER RESOLVED , that the Secretary of State send copies of this resolution to
77	77	the President of the NCAA, the President of the National Junior College Athletic Association, the
78	78	President of the NAIA, and the President of the United States College Athletic Association.
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