The Biden administration on Thursday proposed new regulations that would prohibit educational institutions from discriminating against transgender students and roll back some Trump-era rules governing how colleges and universities handle complaints of sexual harassment or sexual assault under Title IX, the landmark 1972 law prohibiting sex discrimination in education.
The Department of Education said the 700-page proposal would “restore vital protections for students in our nation’s schools which were eroded by controversial regulations implemented during the previous Administration,” including regulations implemented by former education secretary Betsy DeVos which President Joe Biden had criticised as amounting to “a green light to ignore sexual violence and strip survivors of their rights” during his 2020 presidential campaign.
