legislative priority · 2026
Girls’ sports and school funding
Barr is leading the Defend Girls’ Athletics Act, which would cut off federal funding to a school or university that does not uphold a ban on transgender girls participating in girls’ sports. He also supports legislation banning gender-transition surgeries for minors and opposes allowing transgender girls to use girls’ locker rooms or bathrooms.
Context: The athletics measure is described as a bill Barr is leading, not as enacted law.
In their own words
He’s leading the Defend Girls’ Athletics Act that cuts off federal funding to any school or university that refuses to uphold the ban on biological men in girls’ sports.
The source
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Retrieved: 11/10/2026