Republicans will propose a resolution requiring the NCAA to ban all transgender athletes from women’s sports

FIRST ON FOX: After just one day Rep. Greg Steube, R-Fla., who got the Women and Girls in Sports Protection Act passed in the House of Representatives, already has plans to introduce a resolution to further address the issue of transgender athletes in women’s sports. .

Steube will be presenting a joint resolution alongside Sen. Marsha Blackburn, R-Tenn., who will ask the NCAA to revoke the eligibility of all trans athletes who compete as women. It will also ask the NCAA to enact new policies that would prohibit any men who identify as women in the future from competing as women, and pressure all of their member conferences to do the same, according to a draft of the law obtained by Fox News Digital.

Unlike the Protection of Women and Girls in Sports Act, this decision will directly address the issue of transfer at the college level and will also affect non-federal schools.

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Steube’s previous bill only provides that it is a violation of Title IX for federally sponsored educational programs or activities, to sponsor or promote programs or activities that allow males to participate in programs or activities designed for women or girls. .

But this decision could also extend to private institutions that compete in the NCAA. The issue of women’s college admissions has been a political issue during the Biden administration, highlighted by controversies involving swimmer Lia Thomas in 2022 and trans volleyball player Blaire Fleming in 2024.

The NCAA has empowered and protected transgender athletes in women’s sports through its current policies.

NCAA president Charlie Baker faced questions and criticism from Republican lawmakers about the policies during a hearing on Dec. 17. He repeatedly cited federal law and recent state court decisions that have allowed it.

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On President Biden’s first day in office, he issued an executive order to allow and protect the inclusion of women’s sports. And during the December hearing, Baker referred to “five cases in the last 18 months” that allowed trans athletes to compete against natural women. However, no rulings have expressly mandated the NCAA to allow trans athletes to compete with women or share women’s locker rooms.

If Steube’s bill becomes law, Baker and the NCAA will be tasked with enforcing the new mandate, just as he said he enforced the old one under Biden.

One of the groups that lobbied for this decision the most was Concerned Women for America (CWA), which has held the issue of trans players competing with women at the NCAA level as an important task throughout Biden’s tenure.

Current CWA legal strategist and former NCAA female athlete Macy Petty told Fox News Digital that she tried to submit a letter on the matter to NCAA Board of Governors Chairman Dr. eye.”

“The NCAA continues to fail to protect female athletes and is a leader in promoting this discrimination. They have shown no respect for the safety and dignity of the athletes they govern,” said Petty.

The NCAA may soon respond to a new set of rules once the Trump administration begins.

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Representative Greg Steube does a TV interview outside the US Capitol on April 23, 2020. (Bill Clark/CQ-Roll Call, Inc via Getty Images)

President-elect Trump himself vowed to ban trans athletes from female sports as president during his 2024 campaign, and it was one of the key issues for him and other Republicans in their landslide victory in November.

The issue became so prominent that the Act for the Protection of Women and Girls in Sports 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 again, both of Steube’s proposals could be approved in Trump’s first year in office.

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