President Trump Restores Title IX Protections For Women And Girls

Washington D.C.—The Department of Education Office of Civil Rights (OCR) today issued new guidance pertaining to Title IX of the Education Amendments of the Civil Rights Act of 1964. Affirming the judgement of the U.S. District Court for the Eastern District of Kentucky, OCR rejected the Biden administration’s misapplication of Title IX protections against sex-based discrimination to cover subjective gender identity assertations.

“This is an important, substantial and long-overdue correction of ideology-driven regulatory overreach,” said Riley Gaines, vice chair of the America First Athletes Coalition. “The Biden administration’s revisions inverted the plain meaning of Title IX, depriving American women and girls of important civil rights protections.”

Chad Wolf, executive vice president of the America First Policy Institute (AFPI), added that women and girls were, under the prior administration’s policy, unjustly and illegally denied access to sex-segregated athletic opportunities and intimate spaces. “Female athletes were seriously injured competing against males, and many were forced to undress in front of males,” he said. “It was a misguided policy that did real harm, and this new guidance puts an end to it.”

Additional resources:

• Op-ed: Title IX impacts in girls’ sports.

• Research report: What the Biden administration’s Title IX changes mean for universities

• Parental toolkit: Nine things to know about the Biden administration’s Title IX changes