First on FOX: Just one day after Rep. Greg Steube, R-Fla., passed the Protecting Women and Girls in Sports Act in the House, he has already drafted a resolution to further address transgender issues. are planning to submit. Athletes in women's sports.
Steube, along with Sen. Marsha Blackburn (R-Tenn.), plans to introduce a joint resolution calling on the NCAA to disqualify all trans athletes who compete as women. The bill would also require the NCAA to create a new policy that would prohibit men who identify as transgender from competing as women in the future, and require all members to do so, according to a draft bill obtained by Fox News Digital. It is calling on the council to take similar measures.
Unlike the protections for women and girls in the sports law, this resolution directly addresses the issue of transgender inclusion at the university level and would impact schools that do not receive federal funding.
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Riley Gaines speaks during a press conference following the House vote on the Protection of Women and Girls in Sports Act at the U.S. Capitol on January 14, 2025. (Anna Moneymaker/Getty Images)
Steube's previous bill would require federally funded educational programs and activities that operate, sponsor, or promote athletic programs or activities that allow individuals of the male sex to participate in programs or activities designated for women or girls to It simply states that it is a violation of Title IX. .
But the resolution could also extend to private institutions that compete in the NCAA. The issue of transgender acceptance at the women's college level has become a mainstream political issue under the Biden administration, with trans swimmer Leah Thomas in 2022 and trans volleyball player Blair Fleming in 2024. This has been highlighted by the controversy surrounding it.
The NCAA's current policies have enabled and protected transgender athletes in women's sports.
NCAA President Charlie Baker faced questions and criticism from Republican lawmakers about these policies during a Dec. 17 Congressional hearing. He repeatedly cited federal law and recent federal court decisions that made it possible.
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On his first day in office, President Biden issued an executive order allowing and protecting transgender participation in women's sports. And at a hearing in December, Baker cited “five lawsuits in the last 18 months” that have allowed trans athletes to compete against biological women. However, there has yet to be a ruling specifically directing the NCAA to allow trans athletes to compete with women or share women's locker rooms.
If Steube's bill becomes law, Baker and the NCAA would be tasked with enforcing the new mandate, just as they said they would enforce the previous mandate under the Biden administration.
One group that lobbied hard for the resolution was Concerned Women for America (CWA), which has made the issue of trans athletes competing against women at the NCAA level a core mission throughout Biden's term. I have taken it up as
Current CWA legislative strategist and former NCAA women's athlete Macy Petty told FOX News Digital that she tried to deliver a letter regarding this issue to NCAA Board of Governors President Dr. Linda Livingston, but was rebuffed and that Livingston said, They didn't even investigate.” eye. ”
“The NCAA continues to fail in its responsibility to protect female athletes and is at the forefront of promoting this discrimination. They have demonstrated a complete disregard for the safety and dignity of the athletes they govern.” said Petty.
If the Trump administration takes office, the NCAA may soon have to adapt to new rules.
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Congressman Greg Steube gives a television interview outside the U.S. Capitol on April 23, 2020. (Bill Clark/CQ-Roll Call, Inc, via Getty Images)
President-elect Trump himself has pledged to ban transgender athletes from women's sports during the 2024 presidential campaign, a key issue for him and other Republicans in their landslide victory in November. .
The issue has become so prominent that the Protecting Women and Girls in Sports Act became a top priority of the 119th Congress, passing the House with unanimous support from a Republican and two Democrats.
Republicans also control the Senate, and any of Steube's proposals could be approved in Trump's first year in office.
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