A concurrent resolution urging the National Collegiate Athletic Association to revoke its transgender student-athlete eligibility policy, which directly discriminates against female student athletes in collegiate women's sports.

69th Legislative Assembly (2025-26) Introduced by Kathy Frelich and 5 co-sponsors

Urges NCAA to revoke its transgender athlete eligibility policy and enforce a biological sex-based standard across all women’s sports to protect female athletes.

Withdrawn from further consideration

Overview

SCR 4010 is a concurrent resolution urging the National Collegiate Athletic Association (NCAA) to revoke its current transgender student-athlete eligibility policy. The resolution frames the NCAA policy as discriminating against female student-athletes in collegiate women’s sports and calls for a biological sex-based approach across all sports and divisions.

Purpose and Intent

To protect what the sponsors describe as the integrity and opportunities of collegiate women’s sports.

To assert that there are fundamental biological differences between males and females that affect athletic competition and safety, and that these differences justify restricting participation of transgender-identifying males in women’s sports.

To align practices across major collegiate sports bodies with a biological sex-based framework, and to advocate for continued emphasis on female-only categories in competition.

Key Provisions

The NCAA should revoke its transgender student-athlete eligibility policy, which the resolution characterizes as directly discriminating against female athletes in women’s sports.

The NCAA should forbid transgender-identifying males from competing on any women’s roster or in any women’s collegiate competition.

NCAA member conferences should conform to a biological sex-based policy across all sports and divisions.

All sports-governing bodies in the United States should protect the category of “women’s sports” for biological women and girls.

The Secretary of State would be tasked with sending copies of the resolution to the NCAA President, the President of the National Junior College Athletic Association, the President of the NAIA, and the President of the United States College Athletic Association.

Affected Parties and Potential Impacts

Primary: NCAA and its member institutions, conferences, and associations that govern college sports.

Secondary: Other U.S. sports governing bodies (e.g., NAIA, NJCAA) and policymakers who reference biological sex-based competition criteria.

Impacts are aspirational and symbolic rather than statutory; the resolution expresses a political stance and requests actions by sports bodies rather than creating enforceable state law.

Procedural and Timeline Aspects

Introduced: January 29, 2025 (First reading; referred to the Education Committee).

Legislative Actions:

January 29, 2025 – Introduced and referred to Education Committee.
February 10, 2025 – Request returned from committee.
February 10, 2025 – Withdrawn from further consideration.

Status: Withdrawn; no further legislative action anticipated for this session.

Context and Considerations

The resolution cites Title IX and argues about equality of opportunities in athletics on the basis of sex.

It acknowledges other organizations (e.g., NAIA) that have adopted policies intended to protect female athletes, contrasting them with the NCAA policy.

As a concurrent resolution, its effect is to communicate the Legislature’s position and to urge policy alignment by sports organizations, not to impose regulatory requirements on the NCAA or other bodies.

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