The Biden administration’s harmful sexual and cultural experiments on America’s schoolchildren were put an end to by the U.S. Department of Education on Friday, with the reinstatement of the first Trump administration’s Title IX laws.
The Biden administration’s Title IX reform was intended to seriously harm K-12 students and educators global, K-12 through college, but it was stopped in a number of states before being overturned nationwide for trying to change the definition of sex to contain claims of many genders.
Acting Assistant Secretary for Civil Rights, Craig Trainor, wrote in a Friday media release that the Biden Administration’s failed effort to rewrite Title IX was an immoral misuse of regulatory authority and an egregious little to women and girls. ” Under the Trump Administration, the Education Department would champion equal opportunity for all Americans, including women and girls, by protecting their right to safe and separate facilities and activities in schools, colleges, and institutions”.
Biden’s Title IX, as Trainor noted, ripped off civil rights protections for women and girls in college. If individual facilities like restrooms and locker rooms continued to be off-limits to people of the opposite sex ( so long as these people claimed an nonsensical gender identity ), it would have successfully turned them into civil rights violations. Naturally, this put women at risk every day in class, as males would be allowed to enter their personal areas and make them feel uncomfortable. This likewise opened the door to physical violence against women, as Americans discovered in 2021. Additionally, the rewrite may have forced ladies to sleep in the same conditions as boys during events like immediately field trips.
” President Biden’s harmful Title IX law was a major cause for concern for families, putting adolescent girls in harm’s way on a regular basis”, American Parents Coalition Executive Director Alleigh Marré told The Federalist. ” President Trump has restored sanity, and parents can have the assurance that their children won’t be interacting with biological males when they go to school,” he said.
But Biden’s Title IX did not stop at blocking sex-segregated spaces. Additionally, it violated the civil rights of students who were accused of sexual harassment on college campuses under Title IX and made teachers and students comply with using students ‘ “preferred pronouns” as a demand. A judge in the United States ‘ district court earlier this month decided that the First Amendment forbids such a requirement.
The Trump administration’s Friday move, as articulated in a” Dear Colleague” letter and “effective immediately“, reverses the Biden-era Title IX overhaul, citing the Kentucky district court ruling throwing out the entire Biden rule as well as a Trump executive order eradicating “gender ideology extremism and restoring biological truth to the federal government”.
In]the Office for Civils Right’s ] view The Eastern District of Kentucky’s decision expressed the proper textual and original meaning of Title IX, and it correctly repudiated the 2024 Title IX Rule’s expanded “meaning of’ on the basis of sex’ to include’ gender identity,'” which, if left in place, would “turn ] ] Title IX on its head “.4 Likewise, the court rejected the 2024 Title IX Rule’s statement that discrimination on the basis of sex also includes discrimination on the basis of sex stereotypes, sex characteristics, and sexual orientation.
The letter states that “open Title IX investigations” started under Biden’s 2024 rule” should be immediately reoriented to comport fully with the requirements of the 2020 Title IX Rule”.
The 2020 rules, now back in effect, protected women’s spaces, including in sports, and ensured that all parties in a sexual harassment claim on a college campus were afforded equal due process rights.
Prior to 2020, those accused of sexual assault were subject to what many called “kangaroo courts,” where the odds were stacked heavily in favor of the accuser, making it extremely difficult for the accused to prove innocence.
Biden’s rules undermined a presumption of innocence, as is normally the hallmark of the American justice system, and could block the accused from seeing the full breadth of “evidence” weighed against them or from cross-examining the accuser.
While the” Dear Colleague” letter does not carry the same weight as law, it is unclear how, if appealed, proceedings surrounding the Kentucky injunction on the Biden rule will fare.
” Now wiped from the books, the Biden administration’s fatally flawed Title IX regulations prized gender identity over biological fact, hurt women and girls, and undermined free speech, religious freedom, and due process on campus”, a statement from the Defense of Freedom Institute, whose founders served in the Education Department during the first Trump administration, said.
Breccan F. Thies is an elections correspondent for The Federalist. He previously covered issues of culture and education for Breitbart News and the Washington Examiner. He is a 2022 Claremont Institute Publius Fellow and holds a degree from the University of Virginia. You can follow him on X: @BreccanFThies.
