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The latest news about Title IX, a portion of the Education Amendment of 1972 that includes language prohibiting discrimination based on sex. Since Title IX was passed, millions of female athletes have participated in sports programs in high school and college, while the college graduation rate for women has increased by 40%. Critics argue that it is the greatest piece of legislation to support women's rights since women's suffrage. A 2012 case determined Title IX's prohibition of discrimination on sex extends to gender identity, and therefore protects transgender people.
Two University of Texas professors are suing the Biden Administration for including transgender students in anti-discrimination policies.
Republican state lawmaker John Ragan is known for his anti-LGBTQ+ views.
The nation's head of education wants queer youth to know he's in their corner.
The ACLU of Hawaii says the state is violating federal law against sex discrimination in education.
In the latest suit, a student claims he was repeatedly assaulted by basketball teammates and staff members took no action.
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The injunction applies only to the transgender students and faculty who filed suit, but the university had already announced it would not enforce the transphobic bathroom provisions of House Bill 2.
The ruling takes issue with how the Obama administration drafted its guidance, and it adheres strongly to a strictly binary understanding of gender.
Texas and 11 other states jumped the gun when they sued the federal government over trans-inclusive guidelines for public schools, the Obama administration argued in court today.
Wednesday's stay issued by the Supreme Court means that Gavin Grimm, a transgender high school student in Virginia, cannot use the boys' bathroom at school.
A Virginia school board must let a trans student use the boys' restroom, even as the district appeals the issue to the nation's highest court.
Ken Paxton argues that parents have a right to know if their child may be transgender.
Struggling to understand what bathroom transgender people should use? President Obama has a simple test: Imagine your child was trans and needed to go potty at school.
Not a single judge in the Fourth Circuit Court of Appeals wanted to reconsider a ruling that declared 16-year-old Gavin Grimm should be allowed to use the boys' bathroom at his Virginia high school.
Attorney Asaf Orr (pictured) pens an open letter to his former client — the student who filed the first trans-related lawsuit alleging a violation of Title IX.
Oklahoma Republicans want to impeach President Obama for protecting trans students. But first they want to make sure no God-fearing Christian student is forced to share a bathroom with a trans classmate.
The families, represented by right-wing attorneys, claim the federal government's policies on trans students amount to "discrimination" against cisgender students.
Activists are demanding that California's Biola University and Oklahoma Baptist University withdraw waivers the schools requested to ignore Title IX protections against sex-based discrimination.
Transgender students in Nebraska must now obtain approval from their school and a separate committee of doctors and psychiatrists to participate in activities that correspond with their true gender.
Oklahoma Wesleyan University president Everett Piper says he's 'proud' to discriminate against transgender students.
