A "monstrous injustice": Trump admin announces pro-LGBTQ+ antidiscrimination rule ends tomorrowhttps://www.lgbtqnation.com/2026/09/a-monstrous-injustice-admin-announces-pro-lgbtq-antidiscrimination-rule-ends-tomorrow/ 🔗Alex Bollinger (28 Sep 2026)
The Department of Education (ED) just announced that it would be rescinding Biden-era sexual assault and discrimination protections for LGBTQ+ college students under Title IX, the federal law that bans discrimination on the basis of sex in education.
In a release posted to its website, ED announced that it would end rules put in place during the Biden administration that said Title IX protects LGBTQ+ students – as well as pregnant students and students who are parents – from discrimination.
The Biden rule also set rules for how colleges handled formal Title IX complaints regarding discrimination and sexual harassment.
"Today's rulemaking clears the Biden Administration's illegal rewrite of Title IX from the Code of Federal Regulations and restores the commonsense language promulgated in the first Trump Administration, which we have been enforcing since the first days of the Administration," Secretary of Education Linda McMahon said in a statement. The press release went on to say that the Trump administration is keeping trans girls out of school sports, which is not related to the rule change.
The LGBTQ+ organization HRC said in a release that the new rule will mean that "the voices of survivors of rape and sexual assault" will be "suppressed" and that it will be "easier for their perpetrators to get away with their actions."
ED announced today that it will officially publish a new rule rescinding the Biden rule tomorrow. This means that Title IX rules set in place during Trump's first term are now back in effect.------------------------
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