U.S. Sen. Tommy Tuberville, R- Ala., has reintroduced a piece of legislation to ban transgender athletes from participating in women’s sports with the support of 23 Republican colleagues this year.

The bill, known as The Protection of Women and Girls in Sports Act, has moved forward under new Senate Majority Leader John Thune, R-S.D., and a vote could come within the next week or so, according to a report from Fox News Digital.

The act defines gender under Title IX to be “recognized based solely on a person’s reproductive biology and genetics at birth,” rather than how an individual chooses to identify.

If passed, it would ban federal funding from going toward athletic programs that allow transgender athletes to participate in women’s and girls’ sports.

Tuberville has been pursuing this legislation since The Biden Administration proposed new Title IX regulations for the 2023-24 school year to include:

• Protections for transgender and nonbinary students
• Expanded definition of sexual harassment
• New standards for determining the outcome of sexual assault cases
• More protections for pregnant and parenting students

Although the updates were ultimately scrapped, Tuberville said “Congress has to ensure this never happens again.”

“President Trump ran on the issue of saving women’s sports and won in a landslide,” he said in a statement to Fox News Digital.

“70% of Americans agree—men don’t belong in women’s sports or locker rooms. I have said many times that I think Title IX is one of the best things to come out of Washington. But in the last few years, it has been destroyed.”

In 2021, Alabama passed a law that bans transgender athletes from competing on public school sports teams if the sex on their birth certificate does not match the rest of the team.

The state high school sports association told AL.com at the time that it was not aware of any student athletes impacted.

Several states have sought to ban trans participation in women’s sports, despite low numbers of transgender student athletes.

Roughly 30 trans athletes competed in high school sports during the 2020-21 academic year in the 14 states that recorded such data, a USA Today investigation found.

Tuberville’s cosponsors include U.S. Sens. James Risch and Mike Crapo of Idaho, Ron Johnson, R-Wis., Thom Tillis and Ted Budd of North Carolina, Shelley Moore Capito, R-W.Va., Kevin Cramer, R-N.D., Cindy Hyde-Smith and Roger Wicker of Mississippi, Tom Cotton, R-Ark., James Lankford, R-Okla., Steve Daines and Tim Sheehy of Montana, Roger Marshall, R-Kan., Mike Lee, R-Utah, John Kennedy, R-La., John Barrasso and Cynthia Lummis of Wyoming, Eric Schmitt, R-Mo., Marsha Blackburn and Bill Hagerty of Tennessee, Katie Britt, R-Ala., and Pete Ricketts, R-Neb.