Title IX rules developed under Betsy DeVos are back. Here's what it means.

Contributing sentiments towards policy:

52% : Those decisions have also formed the basis for legal protections for gender identity.
46% : The move effectively eliminates protections for gender identity in schools adopted by former President Joe Biden's administration.
44% : Unlike the Biden administration, the 2020 rules did not say that Title IX protections extend to gender identity.
36% : "President Trump ordered all agencies and departments within the Executive Branch to 'enforce all sex-protective laws to promote [the] reality' that there are 'two sexes, male and female,' and that "[t]hese sexes are not changeable and are grounded in fundamental and incontrovertible reality," Trainor wrote.
34% : In explaining the department's rationale, Trainor cited an executive order Trump signed earlier this month that defined sex as "an individual's immutable biological classification as either male or female."
29% : President Donald Trump's administration told schools Friday that Title IX law barring sex discrimination will once again be subject to federal regulations from over four years ago.
21% : " Trump made criticisms of transgender rights a key element of his 2024 campaign, and schools have become a battleground for LGBTQ rights and related cultural issues in recent years.

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