The Biden administration’s Title IX rules expanding protections for LGBTQ+ students have been struck down nationwide after a federal judge in Kentucky found that they overstepped the president’s authority.
The Biden rule, which makes ‘gender identity’ a protected class similar to sex, ‘turns Title IX on its head,’ the judge wrote.
A federal court blocked Joe Biden’s Title IX changes, halting efforts to redefine sex as gender identity, which critics hailed as a win for women’s rights.
Parents Defending Education Action is pushing for Congress to address violence against women in athletics and declare Oct. 10 “American Girls in Sports Day."
On Tuesday, the House passed H.R. 28 — also known as the Protect Women and Girls Act of 2025 — which would amend Title IX to bar transgender athletes from participating in women’s and girls’ sports. Two Democrats voted in favor with one voting present.
President Trump signed a sweeping executive order Monday during his first hours in office recognizing only two sexes, male and female, and directing federal agencies to cease promotion of the
A federal court just blocked the sweeping Title IX rule finalized by the Biden administration last year – effectively wiping the entire rule off
President Trump's executive order establishes strict biological definitions for gender, impacting women's rights and transgender policies. This order reserves single-sex spaces for biological females,
Trump's first tasks as he takes office include signing executive orders to roll back protections for transgender people and end government DEI programs.
A federal judge in Kentucky struck down changes made to Title IX by the Biden administration Thursday, ruling that the new regulations, which had sought to expand nondiscrimination protections for LGBTQ students,
On January 9, a federal judge for the Eastern District of Kentucky hastened the end of the 2024 policy when he vacated the regulation. Judge Danny Reeves said three provisions pertaining to rights for trans students, including access to bathrooms and locker rooms that match students’ gender identity, “taint the entire rule.”
Education experts tend to agree on two things: Donald Trump has an aggressive schools agenda — focused on choice and handing more control over to the states. And with lots of other foreign and domestic priorities vying for his attention, from closing the border to extending tax cuts, K-12 issues may take a back seat.