Defense bill bans males from women's sports at military academies

The 2025 U.S. defence bill, the National Defense Authorization Act, which passed the Senate connected Wednesday and is headed to President Donald Trump's desk, includes provisions that prohibition biologic males from women's sports astatine U.S. subject academies. 

"The NDAA besides permanently prohibits men from playing connected women’s sports teams astatine each subject academies," reads a conception of a Dec. 9 administrative connection addressing the measure from Rep. Mike Rogers, R-Ala. 

Trans athletes person been prohibited from competing successful NCAA sports dating backmost to February 6, erstwhile the NCAA updated its sex eligibility argumentation to comply with Trump's "Keeping Men Out of Women's Sports" enforcement order. 

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A national appeals tribunal has besides precocious allowed the Pentagon to temporarily enforce its prohibition connected transgender subject work members.

The latest measure is 1 of the past remaining items that legislature volition code successful 2025. 

Lawmakers banded unneurotic to walk the National Defense Authorization Act (NDAA), a astir $901 cardinal bundle crammed to the brim with defence argumentation that unlocks backing for respective of the Trump administration’s nationalist defence priorities.

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The measurement passed done the precocious enclosure connected a 77-20 bipartisan vote. It’s a perennial legislative workout lawmakers undertake, and 1 that usually comes and goes with small fuss, fixed that Congress typically bookends the twelvemonth with it.

Other provisions, similar a request for the Pentagon to merchandise the unedited footage of vessel strikes successful the Caribbean successful speech for afloat backing the Department of War’s question fund, raised eyebrows but didn’t dilatory down the package’s success.

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That proviso comes arsenic lawmakers request much transparency successful the Trump administration’s strikes against alleged cause boats, and successful particular, arsenic they question the merchandise of the footage from a Sept. 2 double-strike connected a vessel.

"This defence authorization act, though it doesn't person arsenic overmuch successful determination for defence arsenic a batch of america would like, is simply a measurement successful the close direction," Senate Majority Leader John Thune, R-S.D., said. "And I deliberation the defence appropriations bill, which hopefully we'll ballot connected aboriginal this week, is different illustration of the concern that we request to beryllium making, to guarantee that successful a unsafe world, we are prepared to support America and American interests."

Fox News Digital's Alex Miller contributed to this report.

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