The country made great advances in this area under Trump, but Biden is taking us all backwards.
Higher Ed Dive reports:
20 states sue Education Department over Title IX interpretationOne of President Joe Biden’s first executive orders affirmed that sexual orientation and gender identity are protected classes under federal sex discrimination laws.In that order, he directed federal agencies to review whether their policies and rules complied with this interpretation, citing a landmark U.S. Supreme Court decision, Bostock v. Clayton County, that established LGBTQ protections in federal employment law.Subsequently, the Education Department in June issued a public notice that it considered gay and transgender individuals to be shielded from discrimination under Title IX. Colleges must follow this law or risk losing their federal funding.Bostock focused on Title VII, the anti-discrimination employment law, which contains language akin to Title IX’s.But these similarities did not persuade some Republican state attorneys general, who in July wrote to Biden saying the administration’s interpretations “misconstrued federal law.” All of the states that signed onto the July letter, except for Texas, are plaintiffs in the lawsuit filed this week.They are arguing the department did not pursue proper regulatory procedures when it announced its reading of Title IX in June.
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