Republican senators reintroduced a bill on March 1 aimed at protecting female athletes and ensuring fairness and safety in women’s sports across the United States.
The “Protection of Women and Girls in Sports Act,” first introduced unsuccessfully in 2021, would preserve Title IX protections for female athletes, which ban discrimination on the basis of sex in sports programs and require all educational institutions in the country to reward male and female athletes equally.
The bill was introduced by Sen. Tommy Tuberville (R-Ala.) and co-sponsored by 21 other GOP lawmakers, including Sens. Mike Crapo (R-Idaho), Mike Lee (R-Utah), James Lankford (R-Okla.), Tom Cotton (R-Ark.), Marsha Blackburn (R-Tenn.), Roger Marshall (R-Kan.), and Marco Rubio (R-Fla.)….