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S. 9119th CongressSports and Recreation
Protection of Women and Girls in Sports Act of 2025
Sponsored by Sen. Tommy Tuberville (R-AL) · 44 active : 44 Republicans
Latest action: Cloture on the motion to proceed to the measure not invoked in Senate by Yea-Nay Vote. 51 - 45. Record Vote Number: 100. (CR S1455-1456)
Where it standsBefore the Senate6 senators score as swing votes
Hasn’t passed either chamber
- Senate: next
- House: not yet
- President: not yet
Summary
, via Congress.govProtection of Women and Girls in Sports Act of 2025
This bill generally prohibits school athletic programs from allowing individuals whose biological sex at birth was male to participate in programs that are for women or girls.
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Specifically, the bill provides that it is a violation of Title IX of the Education Amendments of 1972 for federally funded education programs or activities to operate, sponsor, or facilitate athletic programs or activities that allow individuals of the male sex to participate in programs or activities that are designated for women or girls. (Title IX prohibits discrimination on the basis of sex in federally funded education programs or activities, including in public elementary and secondary schools and in colleges and universities.) Under the bill,
sex
is based on an individual's reproductive biology and genetics at birth.
Committees and subjects
Committees
No committee referrals recorded
Congress.gov lists no committee activity for this bill yet, so no member gets the gatekeeper bonus in swing-v3.
Subjects
- Athletes
- Education programs funding
- School athletics
- Sex, gender, sexual orientation discrimination
Model
Directional: count only breaks toward the other partyWhy do scores change?v3default (selected)v2 model swing-v2
How the Senate breaks down
- 6Swing 70–100
- 47Middle 30–70
- 47Entrenched 0–30
Members fall into . All 100 senators have enough data to score.
Key players in the Senate
Ranked by swing score, 0–100 · swing-v3Bars show each input from 0 to 100: ideology gap, scorecard gap, , and the . is the seat’s partisan lean, and shows how much of the input data a score has.
Similar past votes, Senate
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Cosponsors
44 activeShow all 44 cosponsors
- Bill Hagerty (R-TN)
- Cindy Hyde-Smith (R-MS)
- Cynthia M. Lummis (R-WY)
- Dan Sullivan (R-AK)
- Eric Schmitt (R-MO)
- James E. Risch (R-ID)
- James Lankford (R-OK)
- Jim Banks (R-IN)
- John Barrasso (R-WY)
- John Kennedy (R-LA)
- Joni Ernst (R-IA)
- Katie Boyd Britt (R-AL)
- Kevin Cramer (R-ND)
- Lindsey Graham (R-SC)
- Marsha Blackburn (R-TN)
- Mike Crapo (R-ID)
- Mike Lee (R-UT)
- Pete Ricketts (R-NE)
- Rand Paul (R-KY)
- Rick Scott (R-FL)
- Roger F. Wicker (R-MS)
- Roger Marshall (R-KS)
How the swing score works
Ideology gapHow far a member’s DW-NOMINATE voting score sits from their party’s median in the same chamber.
Scorecard gapHow far their Heritage Action and LCV ratings stray from their party’s average, using the groups’ votes on similar bills where available.
Cross-pressureHow strongly their district or state leans toward the other party, from our own computed partisan lean.
Similar votesHow often they voted against their own party on earlier roll calls about this bill or similar ones.
Committee bonusMembers of the committees handling the bill decide whether it moves, so they get a boost.
Cosponsor checkThe sponsor and active cosponsors have already committed, so they drop toward entrenched.
