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Protect Girls' Sports Amendment

Did not qualify

Nevada · November 2026 general election · Constitutional amendment · Election day November 3, 2026
Topics: Civil rights, Education, Sports and athletics

In plain language

This proposed constitutional amendment would have required publicly funded athletic programs in Nevada to designate every sport as male, female, or coeducational based on the sex recorded on a birth certificate. Athletes recorded male at birth would have been barred from female-designated sports, and athletes recorded female at birth could have joined male-designated sports only where no comparable female option existed. It would have created an exception to Nevada's 2022 Equal Rights Amendment. The Nevada Supreme Court allowed the petition to proceed on June 19, 2026, but sponsors announced the next day that litigation delays had made the deadline unreachable. It did not qualify: the required signatures were not submitted by June 24, 2026.

Fiscal impact

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What supporters and opponents say

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What supporters say

  • Protect Girls' Sports PAC, whose leaders include filer James Cavilia and Assemblywoman Heidi Kasama (R-Las Vegas), says sex-based categories are needed to preserve competitive fairness and scholarship opportunities in female sports.
  • Supporters say placing the rule in the Nevada Constitution would make it durable, rather than leaving it to athletic associations whose policies can change.

Attributed to Protect Girls' Sports PAC.

What opponents say

  • Sue Burtch, head of the Nevada chapter of the National Organization for Women, sued over the petition, arguing its description failed to disclose that it carves an exception into Nevada's 2022 Equal Rights Amendment; a Carson City judge agreed on that point and wrote corrected language into his February 2026 ruling.
  • Silver State Equality, Nevada's LGBTQ+ civil rights organization, opposed the measure and argues it would write an exclusion into a voter-approved equal rights provision.

Attributed to Silver State Equality, National Organization for Women — Nevada.

Official ballot language

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Sources

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