OAN Staff James Meyers
8:03am – Tuesday, March 4th, 2025
A bill banning biological men from participating in athletics at schools designated female athletes failed to advance Monday night, with Democrats standing with their vote.
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The test vote on the bill failed to win the 60 votes needed to advance at the Chamber of Commerce as the senators stuck to the party's line with a 51-45 tally.
The bill sought to determine Title IX protection “based solely on reproductive biology and genetics at birth.” The vote comes after President Donald Trump cut federal funds in February in a state that did not ban biological men playing in women's sports. The order stated that the athlete's “sex” is the gender assigned at birth.
However, Congressional Republicans still have the option to amend the 1972 Title IX Act. It protects people from gender-based discrimination in federal financially supported educational programs or activities.
“Around the country, we've seen men who identify as women take athletic space and medals for real women,” Senate majority leader John Tune (Rs.D.) added, “It's a matter of fairness and equality.”
Sen. Tommy Tuberville (R-Ala.) also denounced Democrats for blocking the bill.
“This isn't over,” he writes to X:
Democrats argued the bill as a distraction from more “urgent issues,” and the federal government challenged school decisions.
“What Republicans do today are inventing the issue of stirring up culture wars and scattering people around each other,” Sen. Brian Schatz (D-Hawaii) said in a speech on the floor.
Sen. Tammy Baldwin (D-Wis.) said, “This is not a blanket obligation to deliver unintended consequences for all students, but a sports league decision to actually develop a policy that takes what's best for all players seriously.”
After Trump's executive order came into effect, the NCAA changed its participation policy to ban trans athletes from competing in women's sports.
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