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