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| 2 | 2 | | 119THCONGRESS |
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| 4 | 4 | | STSESSION S. RES. 22 |
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| 5 | 5 | | Concerning the National Collegiate Athletic Association policy for eligibility |
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| 6 | 6 | | in women’s sports. |
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| 7 | 7 | | IN THE SENATE OF THE UNITED STATES |
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| 8 | 8 | | JANUARY13, 2025 |
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| 9 | 9 | | Mrs. B |
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| 10 | 10 | | LACKBURN(for herself, Mr. RISCH, Mr. WICKER, Mr. LANKFORD, Mr. |
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| 12 | 12 | | RAPO, Ms. ERNST, Mr. MARSHALL, Mr. BARRASSO, Mr. TILLIS, Mr. |
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| 14 | 14 | | HEEHY, Mr. TUBERVILLE, and Mr. DAINES) submitted the following |
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| 15 | 15 | | resolution; which was referred to the Committee on Commerce, Science, |
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| 16 | 16 | | and Transportation |
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| 17 | 17 | | RESOLUTION |
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| 18 | 18 | | Concerning the National Collegiate Athletic Association |
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| 19 | 19 | | policy for eligibility in women’s sports. |
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| 20 | 20 | | Whereas athletic participation has an important positive im- |
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| 21 | 21 | | pact on young girls, improving their physical, emotional, |
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| 22 | 22 | | and psychological health, self-confidence, and discipline; |
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| 23 | 23 | | Whereas women have been responsible for some of the great- |
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| 24 | 24 | | est athletic feats in the history of sports in the United |
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| 25 | 25 | | States, from the Olympic games to professional competi- |
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| 26 | 26 | | tion, through opportunities to compete in collegiate |
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| 27 | 27 | | sports; |
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| 28 | 28 | | Whereas the enactment of title IX of the Education Amend- |
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| 29 | 29 | | ments of 1972 (20 U.S.C. 1681 et seq.) (referred to in |
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| 30 | 30 | | this preamble as ‘‘title IX’’) marked a pivotal moment in |
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| 33 | 33 | | •SRES 22 IS |
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| 34 | 34 | | the Federal support of women in sports and applied to |
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| 35 | 35 | | virtually all postsecondary institutions as recipients of |
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| 36 | 36 | | Federal financial assistance; |
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| 37 | 37 | | Whereas there are fundamental and enduring biological dif- |
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| 38 | 38 | | ferences between males and females that put females at |
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| 39 | 39 | | a competitive disadvantage in sports and jeopardize their |
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| 40 | 40 | | safety during competition against males; |
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| 41 | 41 | | Whereas, in 2010, the National Collegiate Athletic Associa- |
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| 42 | 42 | | tion unilaterally adopted a policy that enables biological |
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| 43 | 43 | | males to participate on women’s rosters and compete in |
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| 44 | 44 | | the women’s sports category, a policy that continues |
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| 45 | 45 | | today; |
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| 46 | 46 | | Whereas the policy described in the previous proviso dis- |
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| 47 | 47 | | proportionately negatively impacts female athletes; |
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| 48 | 48 | | Whereas the National Association of Intercollegiate Athletics |
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| 49 | 49 | | (referred to in this preamble as the ‘‘NAIA’’) has insti- |
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| 50 | 50 | | tuted new policies to protect biological women in sports |
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| 51 | 51 | | and ensure that only student athletes whose biological sex |
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| 52 | 52 | | is female will be allowed to compete on NAIA-sponsored |
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| 53 | 53 | | women’s sports teams; |
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| 54 | 54 | | Whereas it is imperative that opportunities for collegiate |
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| 55 | 55 | | women to compete athletically are protected on the basis |
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| 56 | 56 | | of sex; and |
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| 57 | 57 | | Whereas member institutions of the National Collegiate Ath- |
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| 58 | 58 | | letic Association have an obligation under title IX to en- |
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| 59 | 59 | | sure equality of benefits and opportunities in athletic pro- |
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| 60 | 60 | | grams on the basis of sex: Now, therefore be it |
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| 61 | 61 | | Resolved, That the Senate— 1 |
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| 62 | 62 | | (1) calls on the National Collegiate Athletic As-2 |
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| 63 | 63 | | sociation (referred to in this resolution as ‘‘NCAA’’) 3 |
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| 66 | 66 | | •SRES 22 IS |
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| 67 | 67 | | to revoke its transgender student-athlete eligibility 1 |
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| 68 | 68 | | policy that directly discriminates against female stu-2 |
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| 69 | 69 | | dent athletes; 3 |
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| 70 | 70 | | (2) implores the NCAA immediately to protect 4 |
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| 71 | 71 | | the integrity of collegiate women’s sports by forbid-5 |
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| 72 | 72 | | ding transgender-identifying males to compete on 6 |
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| 73 | 73 | | any women’s sports roster or in any collegiate com-7 |
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| 74 | 74 | | petition; 8 |
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| 75 | 75 | | (3) urges the NCAA to require its member con-9 |
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| 76 | 76 | | ferences to conform to a biological sex-based policy 10 |
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| 77 | 77 | | across all sports and all divisions; and 11 |
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| 78 | 78 | | (4) calls on all sports-governing bodies in the 12 |
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| 79 | 79 | | United States to protect the category of women’s 13 |
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| 80 | 80 | | sport for biological women and girls. 14 |
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