FIRST ON FOX: Just one day after Rep. Greg Steube, R-Fla., passed the Protection of Women and Girls in Sports Act adopted in Parliament of delegates, he already has plans to introduce a resolution to further address the issue of trans athletes in women’s sports.
Steube, along with Sen. Marsha Blackburn, R-Tenn., will introduce a joint resolution that will call for the NCAA to revoke the eligibility of all trans athletes who compete as women. It would also call on the NCAA to create new policies that would ban future trans-identifying men from competing as women, and direct all their member conferences to do the same, according to a draft of the legislation obtained by Fox News Digital .
Unlike the Protection of Women and Girls in Sports Act, this resolution would directly address the issue of trans inclusion at the college level and also impact schools that are not federally funded.
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Riley Gaines speaks at a press conference following the House of Representatives vote on the Protection of Women and Girls in Sports Act at the U.S. Capitol on January 14, 2025. (Anna Moneymaker/Getty Images)
Steube’s previous bill only provides that it is a violation of Title IX for publicly funded educational programs or activities to conduct, sponsor, or facilitate athletic programs or activities that permit individuals of the male sex to participate in programs or activities intended for women or girls. .
But this resolution could extend to private institutions that compete in the NCAA. The issue of trans inclusion at the women’s college level was a mainstream political issue during the Biden administration, highlighted by controversies surrounding trans swimmer Lia Thomas in 2022 and trans volleyball player Blaire Fleming in 2024.
The NCAA has enabled and protected trans athletes in women’s sports with its current policies.
NCAA President Charlie Baker faced questions and criticism from Republican lawmakers about this policy during a congressional hearing on December 17. He repeatedly cited federal law and recent federal court rulings that have made this possible.
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On President Biden’s first day in office, he issued an executive order to allow and protect the inclusion of transgender people in women’s sports. And during the December hearing, Baker referenced “five lawsuits in the last 18 months” that have allowed trans athletes to compete against biological women. However, there have been no rulings explicitly directing the NCAA to allow trans athletes to compete against women or share women’s locker rooms.
If Steube’s bill becomes law, Baker and the NCAA will be tasked with enforcing the new mandates, just as he claimed to enforce the previous ones under Biden.
One of the groups that lobbied heavily for this resolution was the Concerned Women for America (CWA), which has taken up the issue of trans athletes competing against women at the NCAA level as a core mission throughout Biden’s term.
Current CWA legislative strategist and former NCAA women’s athlete Macy Petty told Fox News Digital that she attempted to deliver a letter on the matter to Dr. Linda Livingstone, chair of the NCAA Board of Governors, but was fired and that Livingstone “wasn’t even keeping an eye on me.” the eye.”
“The NCAA continues to fail in its responsibility to protect female athletes and is the primary leader in facilitating this discrimination. They have shown a complete disregard for the safety and dignity of the athletes they govern,” Petty said.
The NCAA may soon have to comply with a new set of rules once the Trump administration begins.
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Representative Greg Steube does a TV interview outside the U.S. Capitol on April 23, 2020. (Bill Clark/CQ-Roll Call, Inc via Getty Images)
President-elect Trump herself pledged to ban trans athletes in women’s sports as president during his 2024 campaign, and it became one of the key issues for him and other Republicans in their landslide victory in November.
The issue became so prominent that the Protecting Women and Girls in Sports Act became the first priority of the 119th Congress and passed the House with unanimous support from Republicans and even two Democrats.
With a Republican majority in the Senate, both of Steube’s proposals could be approved during Trump’s first year in office.
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