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The House passed the "Protection of Women and Girls in Sports Act," which could change Title IX protections and ensure only people assigned female at birth participate in women and girls athletics ...
In April, the House passed the Protection of Women and Girls in Sports Act, informally known as the "Save Women's Sports" Act, which would bar schools and colleges that receive federal money from ...
The bill, dubbed the "Protection of Women and Girls in Sports Act," passed mostly along party lines, with 218 voting in favor of it and 206 opposed to the ban. Only two Democrats, Reps. Vicente ...
The Fairness In Women's Sports Act is a common title for legislation passed in Idaho, Florida, and Arkansas that restricts participation in interscholastic, intercollegiate, intramural, club athletic teams, and any sports sponsored by a public school or university based on the biological sex of the individual. The legislation was introduced in ...
In 2021, the U.S. State of West Virginia passed the "Save Women's Sports Act," which provides that only “biological females” can participate in women’s sports in all public interscholastic, intercollegiate, intramural, or club sports teams at the secondary or post-secondary level," [2] barring transgender girls and women from participating on women's and girls' sports teams.
Rep. Alexandria Ocasio-Cortez, D-N.Y. spoke out against The Protection of Women and Girls in Sports Act in a two-minute tirade, prompting social media backlash.
Title IX is an increasingly important issue in college sports law. [2] The act, passed in 1972, makes it illegal for a federally funded institution to discriminate on the basis of sex or gender. In sports law, the piece of legislation often refers to the effort to achieve equality for women's sports in colleges.
When those polled were asked specifically about adult transgender female athletes competing in women’s sports, 69% opposed it. Transgender athlete supporters hold up signs outside a Riverside ...