The proposed Title IX rule, announced in June by Education Secretary Miguel Cardona, is designed to overturn the Trump administration’s desire to continue enforcement of Title IX’s protections for girls and women in education. Former President Donald Trump also ensured due process rights protections for those students accused of sexual misconduct.
On the 50th anniversary of Title IX, Cardona, who just last week blamed the continued plummeting of the performance of government school students over the last several decades on the Trump administration, hopes to do away with the original purpose of Title IX, as enacted in 1972, which was to ensure girls and women were not discriminated against, due to their biological sex, in education-related opportunities.
Now, the department’s proposed rule states it would:
"Clarify that, unless otherwise provided by Title IX or the regulations, a recipient must not carry out any otherwise permissible different treatment or separation on the basis of sex in a way that would cause more than de minimis harm, including by adopting a policy or engaging in a practice that prevents a person from participating in an education program or activity consistent with their gender identity"
