119-sres22

[Congressional Bills 119th Congress]
[From the U.S. Government Publishing Office]
[S. Res. 22 Introduced in Senate

    (IS) ]

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119th CONGRESS
 1st Session
S. RES. 22

 Concerning the National Collegiate Athletic Association policy for 
 eligibility in women's sports.

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 IN THE SENATE OF THE UNITED STATES

 January 13, 2025

 Mrs. Blackburn (for herself, Mr. Risch, Mr. Wicker, Mr. Lankford, Mr. 
 Crapo, Ms. Ernst, Mr. Marshall, Mr. Barrasso, Mr. Tillis, Mr. Sheehy, 
 Mr. Tuberville, and Mr. Daines) submitted the following resolution; 
 which was referred to the Committee on Commerce, Science, and 
 Transportation

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 RESOLUTION

 Concerning the National Collegiate Athletic Association policy for 
 eligibility in women's sports.

Whereas athletic participation has an important positive impact on young girls, 
 improving their physical, emotional, and psychological health, self-
 confidence, and discipline;
Whereas women have been responsible for some of the greatest athletic feats in 
 the history of sports in the United States, from the Olympic games to 
 professional competition, through opportunities to compete in collegiate 
 sports;
Whereas the enactment of title IX of the Education Amendments of 1972 (20 U.S.C. 
 1681 et seq.) (referred to in this preamble as ``title IX'') marked a 
 pivotal moment in 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 differences 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 Association 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 disproportionately 
 negatively impacts female athletes;
Whereas the National Association of Intercollegiate Athletics (referred to in 
 this preamble as the ``NAIA'') has instituted 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 Athletic Association have 
 an obligation under title IX to ensure equality of benefits and 
 opportunities in athletic programs on the basis of sex: Now, therefore 
 be it
 Resolved, That the Senate--

    (1) calls on the National Collegiate Athletic Association 
 (referred to in this resolution as ``NCAA'') to revoke its 
 transgender student-athlete eligibility policy that directly 
 discriminates against female student athletes;

    (2) implores the NCAA immediately to protect the integrity 
 of collegiate women's sports by forbidding transgender-
 identifying males to compete on any women's sports roster or in 
 any collegiate competition;

    (3) urges the NCAA to require its member conferences to 
 conform to a biological sex-based policy across all sports and 
 all divisions; and

    (4) calls on all sports-governing bodies in the United 
 States to protect the category of women's sport for biological 
 women and girls.
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