Law bars transgender athletes from female sports teams.
H.R. 28 — Protection of Women and Girls in Sports Act of 2025 · Filed by W. Steube (R-FL) · 83 cosponsors · Introduced Jan 3, 2025 · Passed chamber
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What it does
This bill changes Title IX rules for schools that get national money. Schools must decide who plays on girls' sports teams based on birth sex and genes. Transgender and sex-diverse students cannot compete on teams that match their gender. Males may train or practice with female teams. They can only do this if no girl loses a spot. The nation must study what girls lose when males play in female sports.
Who it affects
Transgender and sex-diverse students lose the right to compete on matching teams. Schools and colleges that get national money must follow the new rule. Girls are the group the bill says it protects.
One thing to notice
The bill defines sex only by birth sex and genes. The study is set up to show harms to girls from male play. The bill does not require the study to check if excluding transgender girls causes harms to them.
From the analysis of the bill text, linked under Primary records below.
Where it stands
83 cosponsors: 83 Republicans.
- Jan 3, 2025 — Introduced · Congress.gov: “Introduced in House”
- Jan 3, 2025 — Referred to House Committee on Education and Workforce · Congress.gov: “Referred to the House Committee on Education and Workforce”
- Jan 14, 2025 — Passed the House · Congress.gov: “On passage Passed by the Yeas and Nays: 218 - 206, 1 Present (Roll no. 12). (text: CR H126)”
Dates and quoted wording are Congress.gov's action record; the timeline shows status changes, not every procedural step.
Money around this bill
8 groups reported lobbying about this bill. They filed 14 reports from Mar 2025 to Jun 2026.
Those reports show $1,670,086 in lobbying spending. Each report lists about 26 bills. So that money was not all for this bill.
More groups named this bill than 88% of bills with any report.
W. Steube, who sponsored the bill, received $670,000 from PACs for the 2026 election.
- Human Rights Campaign — $439,908 in 2 reports
- American Federation of Teachers — $410,000 in 1 report
- Service Employees International Union Ctw-clc — $286,000 in 1 report
- Ywca USA — $167,678 in 2 reports
- National Assn of Independent Colleges & Universities — $155,000 in 2 reports
Lobbying is legal. These reports show who lobbied about this bill, not what changed.
Words to know
- Title IX — A national law that requires schools to treat boys and girls fairly in sports.
- birth sex — The sex a person is assigned at birth based on body parts.
- transgender — A person whose gender does not match the sex they were assigned at birth.
- lobbying — Trying to influence lawmakers about a bill. Companies and groups pay people to do this.
- PACs — Groups that collect money and give it to candidates for office.
- sponsored — To sponsor a bill is to introduce it in Congress and put your name on it.
How this was measured
Analysis — Quorum's AI read the bill text published by Congress.gov (2,652 characters) on Jul 10, 2026. Section numbers in the findings refer to that text, linked below; transparency and hidden-provision scores are compared against the median of 16,938 analysed bills.
Status and sponsors — Congress.gov's bill record — actions, committee referrals and cosponsors — loaded nightly. The timeline shows status changes, not every procedural action.
Money — Senate Lobbying Disclosure Act filings whose specific-issue field names this bill for quarters ending Mar 2025 to Jun 2026. A filing's amount is reported whole beside the median number of bills a filing names; it is never divided across them. PAC receipts are FEC-reported contributions to the sponsor's candidate committee in the 2026 cycle.
As of — lobbying records through Jul 20, 2026 · page rendered 2026-11-05.
- H.R. 28 on Congress.gov
- Actions and status history
- Cosponsors (83)
- Bill text the analysis read
- Human Rights Campaign — LDA filing, 2026 Q2
- American Federation of Teachers — LDA filing, 2026 Q2
- Service Employees International Union Ctw-clc — LDA filing, 2025 Q1
- W. Steube — FEC candidate receipts, 2026 cycle
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