2025 State Legislative Preview: Parental Rights, Women's Sports, Gender Ideology

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🗓️ 12 January 2025

⏱️ 20 minutes

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Matt Sharp is senior counsel with Alliance Defending Freedom, where he serves as director of the Center for Public Policy. He spoke with The Daily Signal about upcoming 2025 state legislative sessions and key policy priorities across the nation. Sharp outlines several major focus areas for state legislatures in 2025, including: Protecting women's spaces in prisons, locker rooms, restrooms, and shelters Addressing parental rights in education and health care decisions Preventing compelled speech related to gender ideology Supporting pro-life initiatives and pregnancy resource centers Safeguarding health care workers' conscience protections The discussion highlights recent legislative victories in 2024, including Ohio's new parental rights law signed by Gov. Mike DeWine, and examines successful models from states like Montana, Tennessee, Florida, and Louisiana. Sharp emphasizes the importance of citizen engagement and storytelling in advancing legislation, offering practical strategies for conservative advocacy in both red and blue states. Looking ahead to the 119th U.S. Congress, Sharp discusses anticipated federal legislation, including: Title IX protections for women's sports A federal parental rights bill Defining Male and Female Act Born Alive Survivors Protection Act Keep Up With The Daily Signal Sign up for our email newsletters: https://www.dailysignal.com/email Subscribe to our other shows: The Tony Kinnett Cast: https://www.dailysignal.com/the-tony-kinnett-cast Problematic Women: https://www.dailysignal.com/problematic-women The Signal Sitdown: https://www.dailysignal.com/the-signal-sitdown Follow The Daily Signal: X: https://x.com/DailySignal Instagram: https://www.instagram.com/thedailysignal/ Facebook: https://www.facebook.com/TheDailySignalNews/ Truth Social: https://truthsocial.com/@DailySignal YouTube: https://www.youtube.com/user/DailySignal Rumble: https://rumble.com/c/TheDailySignal Thanks for making The Daily Signal Podcast your trusted source for the day’s top news. Subscribe on your favorite podcast platform and never miss an episode. Learn more about your ad choices. Visit megaphone.fm/adchoices

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0:44.9	Welcome to the Daily Signal podcast Weekend Edition.
0:47.7	I'm Elizabeth Mitchell, your host today.
0:49.5	I'll be sitting down with Alliance Defending Freedoms, Matt Sharp, to discuss the 2025 legislative
0:55.5	session after this.
0:58.1	What should we be looking out for this year in the state legislative sessions?
1:04.0	So I think there's a few big issues that we've seen really engage state legislatures in the American
1:10.4	public.
1:11.3	Number one is concerns over the harms of gender ideology.
1:15.5	So this is where we're seeing gender identity and that concept being used to undermine things like women's sports, women's locker rooms, restrooms, and even free speech and being forced to use compelled pronouns.
1:29.3	So I think we've seen a lot of interest over the past year and we'll likely see more specifically
1:33.3	on protecting women's spaces.
1:35.3	What can we do to make sure that men are not having access to women's prisons, to women's
1:41.3	locker rooms and restrooms and schools and colleges and even women's shelters.
1:46.4	We've had a case at ADF a few years ago where a city was telling a women's shelter, a place
1:51.9	where many of these women were fleeing abuse and trafficking, that they were going to have to
1:55.9	allow a man to come in and sleep in this women's shelter. And in rooms and beds, they were just
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