#transgender-student-rights

#transgender-student-rights

Officials have said those policies, which include allowing students to compete in the sport that aligns with their gender-not their sex at birth-and to use the corresponding bathrooms and locker rooms, violate Title IX because they deny cisgender female athletes equal opportunities. Title IX of the Education Amendments of 1972 bars sex-based discrimination and harassment, and advocates for trans students say the administration is weaponizing the 53-year-old law to advance its agenda.

The Education Department's Office for Civil Rights, which is supposed to protect students from discrimination based on race, ethnicity, sex, age and disability status, isn't what it once was. The Trump administration laid off nearly half the staff in March, shuttered seven of its 12 regional offices, shifted the hollowed-out agency's focus to new priorities (including keeping transgender women out of women's sports) and then reportedly terminated more employees amid the ongoing shutdown.

Hi, good evening, I'm a parent in the Davis Unified School District and I'm here today to talk to you about the policies you have in the locker rooms for students,