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Federal Judge Rejects Biden’s Expansion of Title IX to Include LGBTQ+ Students

HeadlineJan 10, 2025
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A federal judge in Kentucky threw out the Biden administration’s expanded Title IX rules, handing a win to Republican-led states as they carry out more attacks on transgender youth. The Education Department had sought to expand the longstanding federal policy protecting against sex-based discrimination in schools to include LGBTQ+ and transgender students, as well as pregnant people and survivors of sexual assault.

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