Concerned Women for America Legislative Action Committee (CWALAC) is honored to ring in the 39th National Women and Girls in Sports Day tomorrow alongside its hundreds of thousands of members who recognize the unique and irreplaceable opportunities sports afford American women. While maximizing their presence on Capitol Hill and beyond, CWALAC has ushered in a season of unprecedented victories that advance a secure future for women’s athletics.
For the last four years, radical agendas have held Washington captive, and female athletes have felt the weight of those policies and disrespectful dismissals encroach upon their private spaces, scholarships, and athletic competitions. Under the guise of “progressivism” women’s sports were now a man’s game, but we’ve set the stage, and a new era is here.
The 119th Congress kicked off earlier this year and passed their first pieces of federal legislation. CWALAC urged Congress to act to protect women’s sports early. The NCAA Annual Convention was set for the second week of January, and we knew H.R. 28 would send the message they needed to hear. Thankfully, the U.S. House of Representatives passed the Protection of Women and Girls in Sports Act (H.R. 28) on the first day of the convention by vote of 218-206, and team CWALAC joined House leadership to celebrate.
CWALAC members, along with our Young Women for America leaders, also rallied at the NCAA Convention in Nashville to represent the female athletes on who NCAA leadership turns its back. I had the opportunity to have a one-on-one interaction with Chair of the Board Dr. Linda Livingstone where I shared my own experience playing against a man and urged her to revoke her policies that hurt women.
Just days later, President Donald Trump took his Oath of Office and immediately made his priorities clear: he is following through on his promise to Concerned Women for America members and getting men out of women’s spaces. He signed the Defending Women from Gender Extremism and Restoring Biological Truth to the Federal Government, an executive order that parallels the CWA Presidential Promise to America Women he signed during his campaign.
The order directs all federal agencies, including the Department of Education (ED), to use “clear and accurate language and policies that recognize women are biologically female, and men are biologically male.” Specifically, the word “sex,” as used in Title IX, shall be interpreted as “an individual’s immutable biological classification as either male or female.” Concerned Women for America has issued Title IX complaints against universities who rostered male athletes on women’s teams, and the ED will now investigate them under these guidelines.
Earlier this year, a federal judge also struck down President Biden’s Title IX rewrite, confirming it was an illegal act. The Department of Education issued a Dear Colleague Letter clarifying they will enforce President Trump’s 2020 Title IX rule instead, which acknowledges biological reality.
There is a lot more to do. Congress must act on its commitment to female athletes. The United States Senate is poised to pick up the Protection of Women in Girls Sports Act for a floor vote soon. Message your Senators and urge them to support the bill here.
CWALAC also recognizes the outsized role the NCAA has played in the recent betrayals to women. We took to the Halls of Congress and urged members to take action against them and demand they revoke their discriminatory policies. Rep. Greg Steube (R-Florida-17) and Sen. Marsha Blackburn (R-Tennessee) are leading resolutions in their chambers to do just that. When covering the introduction of these resolutions, Fox News noted Concerned Women for America’s steady work combatting this issue.
Contact your members and ask them to support the resolution here.
The 2025 National Girls and Women in Sports Day is truly one to celebrate this year as our nation’s leaders take active steps alongside CWALAC members to restore the integrity of female athletics and defend the dignity of women nationwide. Join us in celebrating these leaders and urge them to continue the fight!