{"database": "press", "table": "releases", "rows": [["https://www.moody.senate.gov/press-releases/senator-moody-teams-up-with-female-athletes-in-nationwide-call-to-protect-womens-sports/", "Senator Moody Teams Up with Female Athletes in Nationwide Call to Protect Women\u2019s Sports", "2026-09-23", "2026", "2026-09", "Republican", "Senate", "FL", "Ashley Moody", "M001244", "www.moody.senate.gov", "moody", "https://www.moody.senate.gov/press-releases", "scraper", "WASHINGTON, D.C.\u2014 Senator Ashley Moody is teaming up with female athletes to protect women and girls in sports. At a Senate Judiciary Committee and briefing with national media, Senator Moody defended female athletes and pushed for fairness, opportunity, and safety in women\u2019s sports.\n\n\u201cMale athletes have no business competing in women\u2019s sports, and it\u2019s mindboggling that in 2026 we must pass legislation to protect meaningful opportunity for girls to compete. I am excited to join the many female athletes here today calling for fair competition and a real opportunity to excel in the sports they love,\u201d said Senator Ashley Moody.\n\nBACKGROUND:\n\nSenator Moody joined female athletes to emphasis the importance of protecting women and girls in sports following a Senate Judiciary Committee Hearing today titled \u201cStanding Up for Women in Sports: Ensuring Opportunity, Fairness and Safety for Female Athletes.\n\nAs Florida\u2019s Attorney General, Senator Moody led a multistate challenge to the Biden administration\u2019s 2024 Title IX regulation changes, arguing that the changes undermined protections for women and girls.\n\nIn 2021, Florida enacted the Fairness in Women\u2019s Sports Act, legislation that restricts individuals assigned male at birth from participating in sports teams or competitions designated for women or girls.\n\nSenator Moody is a cosponsor for the Protection of Women and Girls in Sports Act of 2025, that would generally prohibit school athletic programs from allowing individuals whose biological sex at birth was male to participate in programs that are for women and girls.\n\nSenator Moody also cosponsored the Title IX Clarification Act of 2026, which would expressly define sex under Title IX as biological sex, either male or female, and make clear that gender identity does not change that classification.\n\nView Senator Moody\u2019s full hearing remarks here.\n\n# # #", 1, "2026-09-24T09:44:48Z", "2026-09-24T09:45:52Z"]], "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://www.moody.senate.gov/press-releases/senator-moody-teams-up-with-female-athletes-in-nationwide-call-to-protect-womens-sports/"], "units": {}, "query_ms": 3.3968109637498856, "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"}