The Senate was set to vote on S. 9, the Protection of Women and Girls in Sports Act of 2025, on Monday — but Democrats may put it on pause.
The bill strengthens Republican efforts to keep biological males from participating in women’s and girls’ athletics based on “gender identity,” declaring that gender would be “recognized based solely on a person’s reproductive biology and genetics at birth.”
Two Democrats from Texas, Reps. Vicente Gonzalez and Henry Cuellar, crossed over what would have been a straight party line vote to get the bill through the House earlier in the year. Senate Republicans would need seven Democrats to vote with them in order to reach the necessary 60-vote threshold.
Republicans took to X to voice their disappointment in their colleagues’ opposition to the bill.
Bill sponsor Senator Tommy Tuberville (R-AL) called out Democrats who repeatedly insist…
