CONGRESS FOR VOTERS

Jodey Arrington (R-TX)

Title IX Clarification Act of 2026

H.R. 8781 · House bill Education

A Republican bill with 44 Republican cosponsors · See all 44 cosponsors

Last activity — Placed on the Union Calendar, Calendar No. 698.

Cleared committee, waiting for its first floor vote

A committee approved it and it is on the calendar of the chamber it started in.

This is further than most bills get, and still no promise of a vote: the calendar is a queue, and the majority leadership decides what is called. A bill can sit here until the Congress ends.

Its path through Congress

  1. Introduced
  2. On Calendar

What this bill would do

H.R. 8781 is called the Title IX Clarification Act of 2026. The bill clarifies federal nondiscrimination requirements for education programs and activities that receive federal financial assistance. Specifically, it amends title IX of the Education Amendments of 1972. The text establishes that discrimination prohibited under title IX is based on the biological reality of sex. It explicitly defines the terms sex, female, and male for the purposes of the law. These amendments take effect on the date of enactment and apply to education programs and activities receiving federal financial assistance on or after that date.

Yes

No question was scored yes.

The opposite

  • Scored -7

    Would LGBTQ people be better off under this?

    By defining sex through biological gamete production, the bill reduces the scope of Title IX protections for gender identity.

  • Scored -7

    Does this expand the rights of LGBTQ people?

    The bill restricts the definition of sex to biological reproductive systems, which may impact protections for transgender and gender-diverse individuals.