Trump administration can't halt millions in NYC school funding over transgender policy, judge says

NEW YORK — A Manhattan federal judge has vacated the Trump administration’s move to halt magnet school grants to New York City over its policies for transgender students.

Judge Arun Subramanian in a 10-page order Wednesday said the U.S. Department of Education failed to follow the procedures of Title IX — the federal civil rights law prohibiting discrimination on the basis of sex — and that it “strains credulity” to argue they do not apply in this case.

“It is undisputed both that defendants did not follow these statutory procedures, and that the procedures would apply if they non-continued the grants because of Title IX violations,” Subramanian wrote.

The judge said the Trump administration’s written back-and-forth with local education officials “makes clear that the alleged violations were violations of Title IX,” he wrote. “It thus strains credulity to argue that the DOE’s actions were anything other than an effort to enforce Title IX.”

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