The U.S. Department of Education sent a “Dear Colleague” letter to all K-12 schools and institutions of higher education in the country, advising educators and administrators that the department’s Office for Civil Rights will enforce the Trump Administration’s 2020 Title IX Rule.
Trump overturned the Biden Administration’s rules that allowed boys and men to take over female athletics in public schools and universities. A trend over the past few years has seen men who say they are women competing in women’s divisions and winning trophies.
The letter comes after 15 Republican attorneys general successfully challenged the Biden Administration’s 2024 Title IX rewrite, which the United States District Court for the Eastern District of Kentucky ruled was unlawful and, therefore, unenforceable in schools, colleges, and universities nationwide. The lawsuit was brought by Alabama, Florida, Georgia, Idaho, Indiana, Kentucky, Louisiana, Mississippi, Montana, Ohio, South Carolina, Tennessee, Texas, Virginia and West Virginia.
The Department of Education will return to enforcing Title IX protections on the basis of biological sex in schools and on campuses.Returning to the 2020 Title IX Rule also ends a serious threat to campus free speech and ensures much stronger due process protections for students during Title IX proceedings, the department said.
“The Biden Administration’s failed attempt to rewrite Title IX was an unlawful abuse of regulatory power and an egregious slight to women and girls. Under the Trump Administration, the Education Department will 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 universities,” said Acting Assistant Secretary for Civil Rights Craig Trainor.
Rep. Jamie Allard of Eagle River has a house bill that would do the same thing in Alaska. HB 40 is her second attempt to get lawmakers to protect girls and women in sports. Last year, her bill passed the House but died in the Democrat-controlled Senate. She said she will continue to try to get the protections explicitly written into Alaska law.
“I appreciate the clarity coming from the U.S. Department of Administration and President Trump, but we know that executive orders and interpretations of law can be undone by the next administration. That is why it is so important to put this into law in very specific terms in Alaska, so that Alaska’s girl athletes will not have to compete unfairly against boys in competitions where boys have clear physiological advantages,” she said. “I hope my colleagues will allow HB 40 to be heard and that they will pass it this year.”
That may be a long-shot. Both the House and Senate are controlled by Democrats this year due to a number of Republicans joining them to put the entire Legislature in the hands of a party that has disrespected women and the intent of Title IX by Congress.
Resources pertaining to the Title IX Rule, now applicable again through Trump’s orders, can be read here.
Read the full Dear Colleague Letter here.
Good, lets bring some common sense back to the United States of America.
As far as Republicans “Both the House and Senate are controlled by Democrats this year due to a number of Republicans joining them”, Those would be called Turncoats…..loyal only to themselves……
Lets do away with all the benefits that these politicians receive for just “serving” one term and save the country a lot of money…….
Great News! NEVER Forget(!!!), this would’ve never occurred under a Liberal Democrat Administration! Freedon & Liberty definitely dodged a bullet in this last election but, we may have won the battle but, the war continues … Be Vigilant!
Doesn’t work in the bush. Need mix teams to field a team. Low numbers.
This has nothing to do with coed. This is about so called trans women(biological men) competing against girls and women. You need to grow up and get your mind away from the bush!
The wording is the same. I am grown. How much have you spent off the roads?
You need to get your big hug from d3b at the village school and have her explain what coed means!
Apples and Oranges and not applicable here Greg. When you invite everyone to be on one team, it is called co-ed and everyone understands how that works. None of the male players pretend to be girls to get on the team or use the female facilities.
It wasn’t coed though. It was a boys team. Filled in with girls. Girls wrestling boys too. Boys play on girl volleyball too. Not enough girls. Could be all girls on one team and not on another.
….and?
You are deliberately obtuse and ignore the salient point. In a situation like you stated, ALL participants accept that it will be a mixed team or teams in order to have any kind of game at all. NOBODY is pretending to be the other sex.
Been there done that BTW. Small town hockey league (officially boys) needed more players or there would be no season. Girls filled the spots. Yet NONE of the girls pretended to be boys or use the boys locker and bathrooms. Everyone had a good time and the season was a success.
The point of the order is not to diminish or restrict co-ed teams, but restrict boys from deliberately joining a female team under the pretense of “being a girl” to game the system for accolades they would never earn in the boys category, while robbing girls of the chance to earn said accolades in a fair competition with other female participants.
Totally different scenario there Greg. Those are co-ed teams, have been in existence for years, they’re not boys inserting themselves into girls sports.Sometimes necessary in rural Alaska due to limited numbers.
That’s all I was saying, but not coed.
Are you kidding us? There have always been coed teams, but they don’t compete as girls teams. You are beclowning yourself at this point.
It means you are still not allowed in the girls locker room.
Fill in that hole you made in their shower wall.
Only pervert would even imagine anything of that nature.
I watched Porkeys
Lol
Excellent. Let girls be girls again.
Time to end the freak show.
The boys and young men that want to cosplay as girls or young women don’t need to be encouraged – they need mental health help.
Let’s also BAN men and boys in girls and women’s locker rooms and get the tampons out of the middle school boys restrooms.
It called common sense.
We have a clear thinking, mature adult man back in charge.
See the results?
Democrats fighting to erase women’s rights and safety still baffles me.
Glad We have a leader who is actually protecting women.
(I’m eagerly waiting for the insane responses to this)
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