A bill that would have prevented trans-identifying males from playing female sports failed to reach a 60-vote minimum after all 45 Democrats voted No on the measure.
Senate Dems Block Bill Keeping Men Out Of Women’s Sports– thefederalist.com
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On Monday, 45 Senate Democrats effectively killed federal legislation aimed at preventing trans-identifying males from unfairly competing against female athletes. The party-line vote was 51-45, with Sens. Shelley Moore Capito, R-W.Va., Cynthia Lummis, R-Wyo., Elissa Slotkin, D-Mich., and Peter Welch, D-Vt, not voting.
45 Democratic Senators voted NO on Protecting Women & Girls in Sports,” former NCAA swimmer Riley Gaines wrote on X. “Never, ever let them gaslight you into thinking Democrats care about ‘women’s rights’…”
Known as the Protection of Women and Girls in Sports Act of 2025, the proposed legislation sought to alter the Education Amendments of 1972 by making it unlawful for entities who receive federal dollars and facilitate, operate, and/or sponsor “athletic programs or activities to permit a person whose sex is male to participate in an athletic program or activity that is designated for women or girls.” The bill specifies that sex “shall be recognized based solely on a person’s reproductive biology and genetics at birth.”
Monday’s procedural vote required support from at least 60 senators to move the bill forward to a final vote in the Senate. A companion measure previously passed (218-206) in the House of Representatives in January, with only two Democrats voting alongside all Republicans in support.
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