Protection of Women and Girls in Sports Act of 2025
This bill prohibits federally funded schools and colleges from allowing individuals whose biological sex at birth is male to compete on sports teams designated for women or girls. Males could still practice or train with female teams, but only if doing so does not take away any roster spots, playing time, scholarships, school admissions, or other athletic benefits from female athletes. The bill also requires a federal study to evaluate the competitive, psychological, and social impacts on female athletes when males participate in women's sports.
What this bill touches.
Who it helps · who it burdens.
Who it helps
- Female student athletesSec. 2(d)(1) and (4) restrict athletic programs, teams, roster spots, scholarships, and competition opportunities designated for women or girls to individuals who are biologically female at birth.
Who it burdens
- Transgender women and girls and other male-born athletes seeking to participate in female sportsSec. 2(d)(1)–(2) prohibits individuals whose biological sex at birth is male from participating in athletic programs or activities designated for women or girls.
- Federally funded schools and institutions operating athletic programsSec. 2(d)(1)–(4) makes it a Title IX violation to allow biological males to participate in women's or girls' sports programs, adding a new compliance restriction on their operations and federal funding.
- Government Accountability Office (Comptroller General)Sec. 2(e) requires the Comptroller General to conduct a study on the impacts of male participation in female sports programs and report the findings to congressional committees.
The provisions, in plain language.
Prohibits schools and other federally funded entities from allowing individuals whose sex is male—defined solely by reproductive biology and genetics at birth—to participate in athletic programs or activities designated for women or girls.
Permits males to train or practice with female athletic teams only if doing so does not deprive any female athlete of a roster spot, practice or competition opportunity, scholarship, school admission, or other athletic benefit.
Requires the Comptroller General to study and report to Congress on the impacts on women and girls of allowing males to participate in female sports programs, including effects on participation rates, scholarships, admissions, and school environment.
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How members voted on Protection of Women and Girls in Sports Act of 2025.
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How it moved.
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- Received in the Senate.
- Motion to reconsider laid on the table Agreed to without objection.
- On passage Passed by the Yeas and Nays: 218 - 206, 1 Present (Roll no. 12). (text: CR H126)
- Passed/agreed to in House: On passage Passed by the Yeas and Nays: 218 - 206, 1 Present (Roll no. 12). (text: CR H126)
- On motion to recommit Failed by the Yeas and Nays: 208 - 218 (Roll no. 11).
- Considered as unfinished business. (consideration: CR H139-140)
- POSTPONED PROCEEDINGS - At the conclusion of debate on H.R. 28, the Chair put the question on the motion to recommit and announced that the noes had prevailed. Ms. Adams demanded the yeas and nays and the Chair postponed further proceedings until a time to be announced.
- The previous question on the motion to recommit was ordered pursuant to clause 2(b) of rule XIX.
- Ms. Adams moved to recommit to the Committee on Education and Workforce. (text: CR H137)
- The previous question was ordered pursuant to the rule.
- DEBATE - The House proceeded with one hour of debate on H.R. 28.
- Considered under the provisions of rule H. Res. 5. (consideration: CR H126-138)
- Referred to the House Committee on Education and Workforce.
- Introduced in House
- Received in the Senate.
- Motion to reconsider laid on the table Agreed to without objection.
- On passage Passed by the Yeas and Nays: 218 - 206, 1 Present (Roll no. 12). (text: CR H126)
- Passed/agreed to in House: On passage Passed by the Yeas and Nays: 218 - 206, 1 Present (Roll no. 12). (text: CR H126)
- On motion to recommit Failed by the Yeas and Nays: 208 - 218 (Roll no. 11).
- Introduced in House
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Civic Herald. “Protection of Women and Girls in Sports Act of 2025 (H.R. 28, 119th Congress).” https://civicherald.app/bills/119-hr-28. Congress.gov record as of Jul 18, 2026.