{"database": "press", "table": "releases", "rows": [["https://mace.house.gov/media/press-releases/rep-nancy-mace-leads-fight-keep-men-out-womens-sports-service-academies", "Rep. Nancy Mace Leads Fight To Keep Men Out Of Women\u2019s Sports At Service Academies", "2025-09-09", "2025", "2025-09", "Republican", "House", "SC", "Nancy Mace", "M000194", "mace.house.gov", "mace", "https://mace.house.gov/media/press-releases", "scraper", "(Washington, D.C., September 9, 2025) \u2013 Congresswoman Nancy Mace (R-SC-01) has submitted an amendment to the National Defense Authorization Act (NDAA) to protect female athletes and keep men out of women\u2019s sports at U.S. Service Academies.\n\nRep. Mace\u2019s amendment makes it clear: the Superintendent of a Service Academy cannot allow male cadets or midshipmen to compete in athletic programs reserved exclusively for women. Rep. Mace\u2019s amendment defines female and male by biological reality, not ideology, putting athletic eligibility back on the side of science, not politics.\n\n\u201cWomen who fight to earn their spot on Service Academy teams deserve a level playing field,\u201d said Congresswoman Mace. \u201cThis amendment ends the nonsense, protects fairness, and ensures female athletes at our nation\u2019s military academies are not forced to give up opportunities they\u2019ve worked hard to earn.\u201d\n\nRep. Mace\u2019s amendment reflects President Trump\u2019s leadership in protecting women\u2019s sports and rooting out woke ideology from federal policy. By extending his executive order Defending Women From Gender Ideology Extremism and Restoring Biological Truth to U.S. Service Academies, Rep. Mace ensures America\u2019s future military leaders compete on a fair, level playing field grounded in biological reality.\n\nRep. Mace\u2019s amendment underscores her commitment to protecting women\u2019s rights, defending fairness in athletics, and demanding accountability in federal policy. It now heads to the Rules Committee for consideration as part of the NDAA.\n\nRep. Mace has championed a series of bills to defend biological reality, including:\n\nProtecting Girls\u2019 Sports for Military Kids Act \u2013 Puts a stop to biological men taking away opportunities from female athletes in women\u2019s sports. The legislation ensures female athletes at schools operated by the Department of Defense Education Activity (DoDEA) get the fair playing field they deserve.\n\nGender-Affirming Child Abuse Prevention Act \u2013 Holds predators accountable by giving victims of so-called \u201cgender-affirming care\u201d as minors the right to seek justice in court. This bill makes clear: mutilating children isn\u2019t medicine, it\u2019s abuse.\n\nProtecting Women\u2019s Private Spaces Act \u2013 Puts an end to woke policies by requiring federal facilities to keep bathrooms, locker rooms, and other single-sex spaces reserved for biological women, protecting privacy, dignity, and common sense.\n\nRestoring Biological Truth in Government Act \u2013 Restores common sense in government by requiring federal forms and surveys to reflect biological reality: male or female, nothing else.\n\nPrison Rape Prevention Act \u2013 Bans housing biological men in women\u2019s correctional facilities, preventing dangerous individuals from endangering female inmates.\n\nTRANS MICE Act \u2013 Puts an end to the use of taxpayer dollars for radical transgender-related experiments on animals.\n\n###", 1, "2026-03-30T01:40:41Z", "2026-04-06T19:10:29Z"]], "columns": ["url", "title", "date", "year", "month", "party", "chamber", "state", "member_name", "bioguide_id", "domain", "scraper", "source", "date_source", "text", "has_text", "collected_at", "updated_at"], "primary_keys": ["url"], "primary_key_values": ["https://mace.house.gov/media/press-releases/rep-nancy-mace-leads-fight-keep-men-out-womens-sports-service-academies"], "units": {}, "query_ms": 1.6415959689766169, "source": "dwillis/congress-press", "source_url": "https://github.com/dwillis/congress-press", "license": "MIT", "license_url": "https://github.com/dwillis/congress-press/blob/main/LICENSE"}