Sen. Tommy Tuberville has led an effort to safeguard women's and girls' sports for years. (Getty Images)
Last month, Trump issued an executive order titled, "Keeping Men Out of Women’s Sports."
"It shall also be the policy of the United States to oppose male competitive participation in women’s sports more broadly, as a matter of safety, fairness, dignity, and truth," it read.
In a statement shared by Tuberville's office prior to the Monday vote, the White House said, "The Administration strongly supports passage of S. 9, the Protection of Women and Girls in Sports Act of 2025."
"Through an amendment to Title IX of the Education Amendments of 1972, this bill would expressly recognize what is already federal law—that it is an illegal act of discrimination for a man to participate in a federally funded athletic program or activity designated for women or girls," the statement said.
"This bill also recognizes that ‘sex,’ as used in the statutory scheme, is based solely on reproductive biology and genetics," it continued. "Men participating in women’s sports not only is demeaning and dangerous to women and girls, but it erodes the integrity of our Nation’s civil rights laws. Congress’s affirmative vote on this bill would complement both federal court rulings and President Trump’s February 5, 2025, Executive Order, ‘Keeping Men Out of Women’s Sports.'"
Tuberville's effort to advance the bill has been years in the making, with the senator first introducing it during President Joe Biden's administration, during which there were no such executive orders.
Like the executive order, the measure would ban federal funding from going toward sports programs that allow biological men to participate in women's and girls' sports.
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Tuberville first introduced the measure in 2023. (Tom Williams/CQ-Roll Call, Inc via Getty Images)
At the time, Senate Majority Leader John Thune, R-S.D., had signaled his plan to move forward with Tuberville's bill, foreshadowing the early March vote.
The Senate's consideration of the bill comes as the Democratic Party faces an identity crisis, with many pointing to candidates' unpopular position in favor of transgender participation in women's sports as an example.
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Last year, Rep. Seth Moulton, D-MA, received backlash from the party after saying in an interview, "Democrats spend way too much time trying not to offend anyone rather than being brutally honest about the challenges many Americans face."
Moulton received immediate backlash. (Getty Images)
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"I have two little girls. I don’t want them getting run over on a playing field by a male or formerly male athlete, but as a Democrat I’m supposed to be afraid to say that," he told the New York Times.
Soon after the comments, his campaign manager resigned and Moulton faced protests.
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