Trump administration declares Title IX does not protect trans students...

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Trump administration declares Title IX does not protect trans students from discrimination

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Story by Molly Sprayregen (3 Feb 2025)

The Trump administration has notified public schools at every level that it will not be enforcing the Biden administration's revised interpretation of Title IX, which included the protection of LGBTQ+ students from discrimination.

In June 2022, President Joe Biden's Education Secretary Miguel Cardona announced that Title IX, the 1972 education law that prohibits discrimination in federally funded schools "on the basis of sex," should rely on the Supreme Court's 2020 decision in Bostock v. Clayton County. That court decision found that Title VII's ban on sex-based workplace discrimination includes discrimination based on sexual orientation and gender identity.

The notice also aligns with another Trump executive order seeking to end transgender-inclusive policies and anti-racist education in K-12 schools. The order calls to cut off federal funding to trans-inclusive and anti-racist schools, to force schools to out trans students to their potentially unsupportive parents, and accuses supportive teachers of "sexually exploiting minors" or "unlawfully practicing medicine."

"This is an incredibly disappointing decision that will leave many survivors of sexual violence, LGBTQ+ students, and pregnant and parenting students without the accommodations critical to their ability to learn and attend class safely," Emma Grasso Levine, a senior manager at Know Your IX, said in a statement. "Schools must step up to protect students in the absence of adequate federal guidance."