Within hours of the Michigan High School Athletic Association (MHSAA) announcing that they would not comply with President Donald Trump’s executive order prohibiting biological males from competing in female sports divisions, State Rep. Jason Woolford (R-Howell) introduced his first ever bill requiring K-12 schools in Michigan to separate student athletes by biological sex. Woolford’s landmark piece of legislation, House Bill 4066, would amend Michigan’s revised school code to direct school districts to separate female and male youth sports participants strictly into female and male sports divisions. The bill also expressly prohibits male students from participating in female sports divisions, prohibits the state government from investigating or charging a school for enforcing this separation, and provides grounds for a lawsuit to any student who is harmed due to a violation of the policy.

“The executive order that President Trump signed on National Girls and Women in Sports Day last week received an immense outpouring of support from women and girls of all ages, and the MHSAA’s defiance of this commonsense policy only continues to perpetuate the madness of this radical transgender ideology that endangers female athletes,” Woolford said. “From the White House to here in the Statehouse, Republicans are working to protect women and girls from the absurd cultural messaging that has promoted abdication and accommodation on this front.”

The MHSAA allowed two biological males to compete in female sports divisions for the 2024-25 school year. The association announced they will continue to permit the male athletes to compete against female athletes despite President Trump’s executive order on February 5^th instructing all athletics associations governed by educational institutions to stop requiring female students to compete with or against or to appear unclothed before males.

“Female athletes should not be subjected to biological males invading their private spaces, destroying the competitive integrity of their sports, and even endangering their physical safety, whether that be through allowing men into their locker rooms or forcing women and girls to contend with much stronger, bigger, and physical athletic opponents,” Woolford said. “With their flagrantly unlawful action, the MHSAA continues to insist upon disrespecting female athletes and putting them in dangerous environments. The State of Michigan must respond to this outrageous behavior. I am hopeful that my colleagues in the legislature will join me in working to protect our state’s women and girls.”