Trump administration’s Department of Education scraps Biden-era
Parents assert authority over curriculum as education policy becomes a defining cultural battleground.
Linda McMahon didn't leave much room for interpretation. When the Secretary of Education says this administration will hold schools accountable for violating the athletic opportunities of women and girls, she is doing what the Biden White House spent four years refusing to do: enforcing the actual text of Title IX. The rule change scrapped this week was never about fairness.
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"We will continue to relentlessly champion equal opportunity for all Americans and hold accountable any school or college that violates the rights, privacy, or athletic opportunities of our women and girls," said US Secretary of Education Linda McMahon.
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Linda McMahon didn't leave much room for interpretation. When the Secretary of Education says this administration will hold schools accountable for violating the athletic opportunities of women and girls, she is doing what the Biden White House spent four years refusing to do: enforcing the actual text of Title IX. The rule change scrapped this week was never about fairness. It was a bureaucratic end run around the law, and it finally met its end.
The Biden-era rewrite treated a young woman's locker room as an ideological battleground. Schools were told to open showers and changing areas to anyone who says they identify as female, and to let male athletes push girls off the podium. Coaches, parents, and even the athletes themselves were supposed to smile through it. Anyone who pushed back risked losing federal funding. That wasn't progress. It was institutionalized bullying dressed up as civil rights.
The Trump administration's move restores a simple idea: women and girls are not a social experiment. The new policy gives schools a real choice, comply with the law or answer for it. And for the female athletes who watched their records fall and their seasons end at the hands of a competitor they were never meant to face, that accountability is long overdue.
We should not pretend this is over. Every school district will now have to decide whether it wants to keep playing woke games with students' lives or get back to basics. But for the first.
Commentary written with AI assistance by the New Republican Times Editorial Board.