Women's Sports

2025-2026 Bill 4915: Women's Sports - South Carolina Legislature Online

South Carolina General Assembly
126th Session, 2025-2026
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H. 4915
STATUS INFORMATION
House Resolution
Sponsors: Reps. Pope, Martin, Ligon, Terribile, Moss and Hiott
Document Path: LC-0384VR-KAR26.docx
Introduced in the House on January 14, 2026
Currently residing in the House
Summary: Women's Sports
HISTORY OF LEGISLATIVE ACTIONS

Date

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Action Description with journal page number

1/14/2026

House

Introduced (
House Journal-page 87
)

1/14/2026

House

Referred to Committee on
Invitations and Memorial Resolutions
(
House Journal-page 87
)

1/23/2026

Scrivener's error corrected

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VERSIONS OF THIS BILL
01/14/2026
01/23/2026

A
house
RESOLUTION

TO call on Congress to REAFFIRM TITLE IX'S
PROTECTIONs THAT AFFORD every woman and girl equal opportunities in athletics
and to urge the supreme Court of the United States to uphold THE authority OF
EVERY STATE to ensure women's sports are reserved for females ONLY.

W
hereas, with
respect to biological sex, a person is either male or female; and

W
hereas, there
are inherent and enduring biological differences between males and females that
put males at a competitive advantage in sports and jeopardize women's safety
and privacy when they have to compete against males; and

W
hereas, for
more than fifty years, Title IX of the Education Amendments of 1972 (20 U.S.C.
Section 1681, et seq.) has guaranteed that no person shall, on the basis of
sex, be excluded from participation in or denied the benefits of any federally
funded education program; and

W
hereas, Title
IX's protections have historically recognized the biological differences
between males and females, including sex-specific athletic teams in educational
institutions to ensure equal opportunities for women and girls; and

W
hereas, having
separate sex-specific teams furthers efforts to promote sex equality by
providing opportunities for female athletes to demonstrate their skill,
strength, and athletic abilities while also providing them with opportunities
to obtain recognition, accolades, college scholarships, and the numerous other
long-term benefits that flow from success in athletic endeavors; and

W
hereas,
allowing males to compete in women's sports reverses fifty years of advancement
for women; and

W
hereas, science
and common sense tell us that males generally have bigger bodies, larger hearts
and lungs, denser bones, and stronger muscles than females, giving them a
competitive advantage that cannot be undone with testosterone suppression; and

W
hereas, in
2022, a male named Lia Thomas broke six records at the Ivy League Women's
Championships, won four women's Ivy League championships, and won a women's
NCAA championship in the 500-yard freestyle, beating two former Olympic
medalists; and

W
hereas,
allowing males to compete in contact sports creates significant risks of
physical harm; and

W
hereas, in
North Carolina, seventeen-year-old Payton McNabb suffered partial paralysis
after competing against a male volleyball player who spiked the ball so hard it
caused her severe head and neck injuries; and

W
hereas,
maintaining separate female sports teams based on sex promotes the safety of
female athletes by protecting them from predictable and preventable injuries
that could result from forcing girls to compete against male athletes; and

W
hereas,
allowing men into female-only spaces, including locker rooms, changing areas,
restrooms, and overnight sleeping accommodations, erases the privacy and safety
those spaces were built to protect; and

W
hereas, in West
Virginia, a seventh-grade girl named Adaleia Cross was forced to share a locker
room and compete with a male athlete. That athlete sexually harassed Adaleia in
the girls' locker room and took her spot in a championship track-and-field
event. The distress robbed her of much of her passion for sports; and

W
hereas, no
person should have to compromise their dignity or privacy to validate someone
else's subjective perception of their identity; and

W
hereas, South
Carolina enacted the Save Women's Sports Act in 2022, joining more than half
the country in protecting fairness in women's sports; and

W
hereas, the
South Carolina House of Representatives recognizes and respects the
physiological differences between the two sexes and is committed to protecting
fairness in women's sports and safeguarding women's safety and privacy; and

W
hereas, the
South Carolina House of Representatives calls on Congress to enact federal
legislation to reaffirm that Title IX guarantees every woman and girl equal
opportunities in athletics and that allowing males to compete on women's teams
or access women's private spaces violates Title IX; and

W
hereas, the
South Carolina House of Representatives urges the Supreme Court of the United
States to uphold each state's authority to ensure the category of women's
sports are reserved for females only and allow states to restore common sense,
fairness, and safety in women's sports by recognizing biological truth. Now,
therefore,

B
e it resolved by
the
House of Representatives
:

T
hat the members
of the South Carolina
House of Representatives
,
by this resolution, call on Congress to reaffirm Title IX's protections that
afford every woman and girl equal opportunities in athletics and urge the Supreme
Court of the United States to uphold the authority of every state to ensure
women's sports are reserved for females only.

B
e it further
resolved that a copy of this resolution be forwarded to the members of South
Carolina's Congressional delegation and to the Clerk of the Supreme Court of
the United States.

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