The side of truth and common sense is winning in the gender ideology war. After years of fighting to protect women’s sports at the federal level, a bill will soon be voted out of the Senate and sent to the White House that will finally do just that.

Sen. Tommy Tuberville (R-Alabama) reintroduced the Protection of Women and Girls in Sports Act today. S.9 (in a nod to Title IX) would affirm that the 1972 law treats gender as “recognized based solely on a person’s reproductive biology and genetics at birth” rather than a person’s chosen gender identity. It would ban any federally funded education programs from allowing men to participate in women’s athletic programs.

This is the fourth time that the bill has been introduced, but the first time that it has the opportunity to become law. The first two years, the bill never received a vote. In 2023, Sen. Tuberville introduced the bill as an amendment to a larger package and forced the Senate to vote on it, putting 51 Democrats on the record as voting against protecting women.

This month, the Senate is once again set to put legislators on the record, but this time the bill will pass. Senate Majority Leader John Thune (R-South Dakota) has promised that the bill will get a vote on the Senate floor, possibly as early as next week. And with Republicans in the majority, the bill will have enough votes. Rep. Greg Steube (R-Florida) has introduced a similar bill that the House plans to vote on soon as well. It would then go to President Trump’s desk, and because the issue of men in women’s sports is one on which he campaigned, there’s little doubt that he will sign it into law. 

The bill was first introduced in 2020, when the Biden administration proposed rewriting Title IX to include “gender identity” in the definition of sex. In the wake of dozens of lawsuits, and an incoming administration set to roll back the rule, the Biden Administration preemptively rescinded it themselves. However, the Protection of Women and Girls in Sports Act is necessary to prevent any future administrations from attempting to destroy women’s sports. Sen. Tuberville has been a champion on this issue, and we commend him for his continued leadership.

While this is a significant milestone worth celebrating, the battle is not yet over. Last month, NCAA President Charlie Baker told a Senate panel that his organization is not subject to Title IX. Because the NCAA is the governing body for the majority of college-level athletics, that leaves thousands of young female athletes at risk of having to play against biological males or forced to share their locker rooms with them. Until the lie that men and women are interchangeable has been defeated once and for all, Concerned Women for America will continue fighting for the truth, that God created us all beautifully and uniquely as male or female.

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