The U.S. Department of Education’s Office for Civil Rights rescinded what it calls “illegal” Title IX agreements aimed at protecting transgender students at six school districts and universities.
The Office for Civil Rights, under previous administrations, cited the districts for violations such as “improper use of preferred pronouns” or “asking questions about a student’s preferred gender.” Assistant Secretary for Civil Rights Kimberly Richey described those efforts as a “radical transgender agenda.
Title IX protections under the Trump administration operate based on sex, not gender ideology, the department pointed out, adding that the school districts did not violate the law under the Biden and Obama administrations.
“While previous administrations launched Title IX investigations based on ‘misgendering,’ the Trump administration is investigating allegations of girls and women being injured by men on their sports teams or feeling violated by men in their intimate spaces,” Richey said.
The districts and colleges released from their previous Title IX agreements include the Cape Henlopen School District, Delaware Valley School District, Fife School District, La Mesa-Spring Valley School District, Sacramento City Unified School District and Taft College.
Sacramento City USD officials are waiting to see if the move will impact district policy or federal funding, district spokesperson Al Goldberg told The Sacramento Bee.
“The Sacramento City Unified School District remains committed to the support of our LGBTQ+ students and staff,” Goldberg said in a statement.
In Sacramento USD’s case, a student who identifies as male and uses male pronouns lodged a complaint in 2022 that a teacher refused to use the student’s preferred pronouns and didn’t provide time for the student to join the boys’ group during a class activity, according to The Sacramento Bee.
Under the Biden administration, the OCR prompted the district to provide training on Title IX policies to school administrators, teachers, guidance counselors and school resource officers.
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