Trump administration announces anti-trans investigations team to fight 'gender ideology' in schools [View all]

Source: The Advocate

BREAKING: Trump administration announces anti-trans investigations team to fight 'gender ideology' in schools

The administration claims acceptance of transgender students has "pernicious effects."
Trudy Ring

April 04 2025 1:13 PM EST

In the Trump administration's latest anti-transgender action, the U.S. Departments of Justice and Education Friday announced a Title IX Special Investigations Team to investigate what they call “the pernicious effects of gender ideology in school programs and activities.” By that they mean acceptance of transgender students, and LGBTQ+ organizations are condemning the move.

In a press release, they claimed they have received “a staggering volume of Title IX complaints.” Title IX of the Education Amendments of 1972 bans sex discrimination in educational programs that receive federal funding. Democratic administrations have interpreted it to include discrimination based on gender identity, but the current administration has adopted a strict binary definition of sex as assigned at birth.

The effort is in keeping with Donald Trump’s executive order with the binary definition of sex, erasing trans, nonbinary, and intersex people, and his “No Men in Women’s Sports” order, threatening loss of federal funding to any school that allow trans girls and women to compete in female sports.

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