The lawsuits are using attacks on trans kids, who are drowning under a tidal wave of anti-trans legislation, to roll back other rights for women and girls.
Title IX, the landmark 1972 law that bars sex discrimination in schools, has been making headlines lately. No fewer than 26 states have sued to block the Biden administration's regulations to carry out Title IX's guarantee—purportedly to preserve 'Title IX and protections for women and girls.' Now the cases have landed at the U.S. Supreme Court, which will decide in the coming days whether the rule can take effect on Aug. 1 as planned.
Yet it has succeeded in blocking the rule in 15 states and schools in hundreds of counties nationwide.Protections for pregnant students weren't always a partisan issue. From the very first regulations issued by the Ford administration in 1975, Title IX has been understood to protect pregnant and parenting students from discrimination, ending the once common practice of forcing pregnant students to drop out of high school.
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