Trump administration takes aim at schools and states resisting Title IX
President Donald Trump is laying the groundwork to rein in transgender policies in educational institutions by launching Title IX investigations and lawsuits across the country during his first few months in office.
Alleigh Marre, an executive director at the advocacy group American Parents Coalition, told the Washington Examiner that regardless of the sparse occurrences of transgender students, the investigations and lawsuits over the matter were still critical to guarding female students’ privacy in locker rooms and bathrooms and their ability to compete fairly on sports teams.
Just because the number is low, “doesn’t mean that we make exemptions and exceptions that put other people in danger or open the door for bad actors to take advantage of those policies, and that’s absolutely, unequivocally what’s happening,” Marre said.
She also noted that the Trump administration’s positions on gender ideology were popular, citing a poll her group conducted in Maine in March that showed a majority of respondents in the blue-leaning state tended to want stricter rules in place regarding gender identity.
“There’s of course the nuts and bolts, in the weeds, legal piece … but then there’s also the broader, big P, political side of it and public opinion,” Marre said. “And that has been extremely clear, even in a state like Maine.”
Read more at the Washington Examiner.
