Trump Just Nuked Title IX Protections for Trans Students
The federal school rulebook just swung hard in reverse, because apparently American education's biggest issue was pronouns.
Education Secretary Linda McMahon officially signed off on ditching the Biden-era rules that protected LGBTQ+ and transgender kids in school hallways across the country. Under the previous guidelines, misgendering students or ignoring preferred pronouns in classrooms was a direct federal violation.
The department frames the rollback as a heroic return to "commonsense language." What that actually means: the federal government has stopped forcing schools to recognize transgender students' gender identities, dismantling rules civil rights groups spent years putting together.
Advocacy groups are warning that the fallout goes far beyond pronouns. Stripping back the framework also chips away at basic protections and formal recourse for victims of sexual harassment and assault across campuses nationwide.
It turns out fixing the country's public education crisis just takes pretending hundreds of thousands of students do not exist.
Source: Politico
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