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119-hr-3950119th Congress

Truth in Gender Act of 2025

Sponsored By: Representative Carter, Earl L. "Buddy" [R-GA-1]

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Summary

This bill would force federal policy to follow a binary, biology-based definition of sex. It would remove gender identity as a basis for agency decisions and rework laws, forms, funding, and enforcement around that definition.

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  • Women and girls would get explicit federal protections for single-sex spaces and privacy. The bill bars males from being housed in women’s prisons, directs HUD to adopt rules protecting single-sex rape shelters, and requires agencies to label intimate spaces by sex.
  • Transgender people would see gender identity removed from many interactions with government. Government IDs and personnel records must record sex as male or female, forms may not ask about gender identity, and federal funds cannot be used to promote gender identity.
  • Federal agencies and federally funded programs would face implementation duties and new enforcement priorities. HHS must issue expanded definitions within 30 days, agency heads must report implementation to the President via the Office of Management and Budget within 120 days, and the Attorney General plus other enforcement heads must prioritize actions to defend sex-based distinctions.

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Bill Overview

Analyzed Economic Effects

4 provisions identified: 0 benefits, 1 costs, 3 mixed.

Federal definition of sex

This bill would create a legal definition of “sex” as an immutable biological classification of male or female. It would require federal agencies to use that definition in laws, rules, forms, and official documents. The Department of Health and Human Services would have to issue guidance expanding the definitions within 30 days after enactment. The bill would also say its rules control over any conflicting federal law.

Limits on funding and enforcement

This bill would prohibit federal funds from being used to promote "gender ideology" and would require agency heads to stop such funding where allowed by law. The Attorney General would be ordered to issue guidance affirming a binary view of sex and the right to single-sex spaces, and enforcement agencies would prioritize investigations and litigation under that guidance. Agencies would need to remove or rescind guidance and communications that promote gender ideology.

Single-sex spaces, prisons, shelters

This bill would require federal agencies to designate intimate spaces, like restrooms and shelters, by sex rather than by gender identity. It would require the Attorney General and Homeland Security to ensure males are not held in women's federal prisons or detention centers. The Bureau of Prisons would change medical-care policies and federal funds could not pay for medical procedures intended to make an inmate look like the opposite sex. HUD would begin rulemaking to rescind its 2016 gender-identity access rule and propose a policy to protect women seeking single-sex rape shelters.

Federal IDs and forms rule

This bill would require passports, visas, Global Entry cards, and relevant federal personnel records to show sex as male or female as defined in the Act. It would require federal agency forms to list sex only as "male" or "female" and prohibit asking for gender identity. If enacted, these changes would affect how people apply for or update government IDs and how federal staff records report sex.

Sponsors & CoSponsors

Sponsor

Carter, Earl L. "Buddy" [R-GA-1]

GA • R

Cosponsors

  • Rep. Moore, Barry [R-AL-1]

    AL • R

    Sponsored 12/1/2025

Roll Call Votes

No roll call votes available for this bill.

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