Schools would label sports by sex and restrict female teams

Covered schools would label each school-sponsored team or sport as male, female, or mixed and limit female teams to students who meet the bill’s definition of female. The rules would cover public schools, colleges, and private schools whose students or teams compete against a public school. Sex would be based on unambiguous sex organs, chromosomes, and naturally produced hormones at birth. Schools could use an original birth certificate issued at or near birth to establish sex.

Students could sue schools that violate the team rules and entities that punish them for reporting violations. Students could sue for lost athletic opportunities, direct or indirect harm, or punishment for reporting. Harmed schools and districts could also sue the violating entity. Reports could go to employees or representatives of schools, districts, or athletic groups, or to state or federal bodies with oversight authority. These lawsuits would have to be filed within two years of the event behind the complaint.

Government bodies, licensing or accrediting groups, athletic associations, and school districts could not penalize schools or districts for following the team rules. Schools and districts could decline to consider complaints against them for following the team rules. Access to state and federal courts would remain protected. The rules would not change rights under federal disability laws.