The Education Department announced Monday it has formally rescinded the Biden-era Title IX interpretation that gave sex-based discrimination protections to students on the basis of sexual orientation and gender identity.
Schools now must go back to the Title IX code as held under the previous Trump administration in 2020, which the department says will protect women’s sports.
“Thanks to today’s action, the published Title IX regulations faithfully reflect court orders and Congressional intent — reducing confusion for parents, students, and educational institutions. We will continue to relentlessly champion equal opportunity for all Americans and hold accountable any school or college that violates the rights, privacy, or athletic opportunities of our women and girls,” Education Secretary Linda McMahon said.
The Biden-era Title IX rule was already struck down in the court system after challenges from Republican states.
And the administration has pursued its own definition since President Trump returned to office, making deals with schools such as the University of Pennsylvania to take transgender athletes out of their women’s programs.
Opponents of the move say it will harm transgender athletes and weaken protections for sexual assault victims.
“Sexual harassment and assault continue to be pervasive in schools and, to the fullest extent possible, we should be working to enforce the laws that protect student survivors of sexual violence. Yet, Education Secretary Linda McMahon and the Trump administration have decided to ignore what survivors need, instead weaponizing Title IX to attack trans students,” said Shiwali Patel, senior director of education justice at the National Women’s Law Center.
Ah yes the the 5 trans athletes this will affect in the US. Protecting the children again are we?
What the fuck is this obsession with bathrooms and women’s sports? Fix fucking healthcare. Let’s start there.
Their cowardly little minion voter base don’t want progressive idea and fixes. They want to know that people they don’t like are suffering. This is what is important to them. They’d be fine if all of America were a giant smoking hole in the ground as long as it meant that people that scare them like… the LGBTQ+ and free-thinkers, were at the center of it.
Theese terrorists are the absolute lowest of what qualifies as human, and they’re barely that. They are hateful, pathetic, cowardly little ghouls and need to be removed.
Once you convince everybody to scapegoat one group, scapegoating the next group becomes much easier.
They’re already going after brown people with immigration crackdowns. Soon they’ll start going after LGBQT people for some supposed morality crime.
Yes. JFC.
Also, I wish the opposition would get it straight about who and what the conservatives are. I see lots and lots of what seems to be a concerted effort to try to split the opposition by peeling off just enough voters on this because there are instances of Democrats that are less than great on this one issue.
But the cons, especially if the Seven Mountain Mandate types get their way, have really dire things planned.
Claiming there is not a dime’s difference between the two is either really disingenuous, or dangerously naive.
Because its cheap and they don’t need to do anything other than yapping
If they’re not raping kids, they’re getting them killed.
God if only Republicans liked kids instead of liking kids.
They figure if the can’t fuck them one way, they’ll fuck them another.
I can’t get over being proud to pick on suicidal kids. When did that become socially acceptable?
Because conservitives have bad morals
Thank god the 5 transgender sports-playing school girls in the country can no longer pursue their interests! Can we get universal healthcare now?
I remember someone was talking about some states and their anti-trans bills and how they would be just as accurate to call them the anti-Susie (or whatever their name was) Bill, since in some cases, there was like one known instance of this “issue” causing this stupid moral panic - in the entire fucking state.
I swear, the party that likes to talk about everyone else being a snowflake is constantly finding non-issues and things that are barely even a thing to get all worked up about. These are the same exact types that had fainting spells in the 80s over things like heavy metal lyrics and Dungeons and Dragons and supposed satanic cults and lots of other fantastical nonsense. In the 90s, especially after Columbine, they clutched their pearls over outsider kids wearing trenchcoats, playing videogames and listening to Marilyn Manson.
And now they are basically shaping an entire nation-state around women’s sports, FFS [1]. Keep in mind that these are the same group that sneer at things like the WNBA and women’s soccer, and that no one watches women’s sports.
Now they are calling in the fainting couches over something they mocked and derided (and probably still do).
[1] I say that because some of the voters that vote R claim it’s their #1 issue. I still am just agog at this notion. Imagine being so privileged that you have zero skin in the game for trans, and it’s your #1 issue? How the fuck is that even a thing?
Linda McMahon deserves the guillotine
And then Duke Nukem can take a shit down her neck
I thought we got rid of the Department of Education? Am I misremembering that?
I bet religious schools are jumping with joy.
Fuck fascism. Not kids.
