| The United States Conference of Catholic Bishops (USCCB) is asking Catholics to contact their U.S. Senators and urge them to support the Protection of Women and Girls in Sports Act of 2025 (S.9).
This coming Monday, the Senate will consider S.9, protecting women and girls’ opportunities in sports by requiring federally-funded female sports programs to be reserved for biological females. The House of Representatives already passed this legislation in January.
Consistent with the Church’s clear teaching on the equality of men and women and the truth that we are created male and female, this bill promotes fairness and safety for women and girls by ensuring female athletes can compete on a safe and level playing field with other females. We must seek to avoid any policies that undermine human dignity, including denial of a person’s body, which is genetically and biologically female or male, or unequal treatment between women and men. At the same time, youth who experience gender identity discordance should be able to participate in sports, and any harassment against these young people is unequivocally wrong.
Title IX of the Education Amendments of 1972 was a needed landmark to establish equal educational opportunities for women and girls. The Protection of Women and Girls in Sports Act of 2025 would help ensure the continued viability of Title IX.
This bill does not deny anyone the ability to participate in sports, but would simply protect women and girls by upholding human dignity and the biological realities of male and female.
To learn more, read the USCCB’s letter in support of the bill.
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