Ahead of the Senate vote on legislation protecting women’s sports, the White House issued a statement supporting the bill, saying that it is an important move that complements the president’s executive order.
“The Administration strongly supports passage of S. 9, the Protection of Women and Girls in Sports Act of 2025,” the White House statement said. “Through an amendment to Title IX of the Education Amendments of 1972, this bill would expressly recognize what is already federal law—that it is an illegal act of discrimination for a man to participate in a federally funded athletic program or activity designated for women or girls.”
The White House also noted that the bill, introduced by Republican Alabama Sen. Tommy Tuberville, recognizes that the word “sex,” as “used in the statutory scheme, is based solely on reproductive biology and genetics.”
“Men participating in women’s sports not only is demeaning and dangerous to women and girls, but it erodes the integrity of our Nation’s civil rights laws,” the White House said. “Congress’s affirmative vote on this bill would complement both federal court rulings and President Trump’s February 5, 2025, Executive Order, ‘Keeping Men Out of Women’s Sports.’”
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On Monday evening, senators will vote on the legislation, which Tuberville introduced in January 2025. The House of Representatives passed similar legislation in January.
Both Tuberville and Trump have repeatedly pointed to polls showing that most Americans do not support men in women’s sports. The Alabama senator has condemned former President Joe Biden for taking a “sledgehammer to Title IX” and allowing men in women’s sports across the United States — a move that resulted in more than 900 women losing trophies to men who identify as transgender women.
In early February, Trump signed an executive order banning men from competing in women’s sports, a significant moment in the fight to protect the integrity of women’s spaces from gender activists and ideologues.
“From now on,” he said to massive applause from those assembled, “women’s sports will be for only women.”
“With this executive order, the war on women’s sports is over,” he added.
The order itself states that “it is the policy of the United States to rescind all funds from educational programs that deprive women and girls of fair athletic opportunities, which results in the endangerment, humiliation, and silencing of women and girls and deprives them of privacy. It shall also be the policy of the United States to oppose male competitive participation in women’s sports more broadly, as a matter of safety, fairness, dignity, and truth.”
Tuberville’s legislation bolsters that order, and is particularly important, given that executive orders can be reversed by a subsequent administration.
“73% of Georgia voters do NOT want men competing in women’s sports,” Tuberville posted on X Monday. “I hope my colleagues @ReverendWarnock and @Ossoff will join me in standing up for the more than 77,000 Georgia high school female athletes who want men OUT of their sports and locker rooms.”
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