Title IX, Virginia and Trump
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The federal government is pushing Arlington Public Schools to stop allowing transgender students to use bathrooms and locker rooms corresponding with their gender identity. The U.S. Education Department announced today that it has completed a five-month investigation into the anti-discrimination policies of five school districts in Northern Virginia,
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KTVU FOX 2 San Francisco on MSNMt. Diablo school district settles Title IX lawsuit over fairness in girls' sports
The plaintiffs say girls had to play softball on an overgrown, uneven field, while the boys' baseball team enjoyed a pristine facility.
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InsideNoVa on MSNUS Department of Education issues Title IX violations to five Northern Virginia school divisions
Virginia Gov. Glenn Youngkin announced Friday the U.S. Department of Education's Office for Civil Rights found the policies of five Northern Virginia school divisions regarding sports and locker rooms violated the Title IX requirements in the Education Amendments of 1972.
The department’s Office for Civil Rights concluded that the divisions’ policies unlawfully permit students of the opposite sex to access sex-separated facilities and participate in sex-separated sports based on gender identity rather than biological sex.
Now that the House settlement allows colleges to pay athletes, schools must balance new revenue-sharing rules with Title IX requirements, even as most money is expected to go to football and men’s basketball.
A federal judge is considering Harvard’s request to be dismissed from a lawsuit filed by three former University of Pennsylvania swimmers alleging it violated Title IX regulations by allowing a transgender swimmer to compete in the 2022 Ivy League Swimming and Diving Championships.
In December 2024, Green Bay was found to be in violation of Title IX. The district had to conduct a sexual harassment survey; here's what students said.
Retzlaff made the decision to withdraw from BYU after facing a seven-game suspension related to a violation of the school's honor code. That suspension stemmed from allegations of sexual assault, which were later dismissed in a civil lawsuit, and BYU's strict policy prohibiting premarital sex, a rule Retzlaff admitted to violating.