Bill > S00460

This bill proposes an amendment to the New York State education law that would prohibit the state education commissioner from creating any rules or regulations that would prevent schools from excluding biologically male students from participating on female athletic teams under specific circumstances. Specifically, schools would be empowered to disallow male students from participating on female teams if the school determines that such participation would either negatively impact the physical or emotional safety of female athletes, or would adversely affect female students' ability to successfully compete in interscholastic athletics. The bill also specifies that this potential exclusion would extend to related benefits like individual awards and scholarships. The proposed legislation would take effect immediately upon enactment, and it represents a policy intervention into debates surrounding transgender athletes' participation in school sports, giving individual schools more discretion to make decisions about team composition based on their assessment of potential impacts on female athletes.

Education, Housing and Urban Affairs

https://www.nysenate.gov/legislation/bills/2025/S460