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News Articles: Title IX

Maine's Democratic Gov. Janet Mills speaks at a news conference at Morse High School on Oct. 20, 2022, in Bath, Maine.

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  • National

Federal judge orders USDA to unfreeze funds to Maine

The funds had been initially withheld following President Trump's clash with Maine Gov. Janet Mills over the issue of transgender athletes.

April 12, 2025
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By:
  • Juliana Kim
President Trump signed the "No Men in Women's Sports" executive order in the East Room at the White House on Wednesday. The order prohibits transgender women from competing in women's sports.

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  • Politics

Trump signs order that seeks to ban transgender athletes from women's sports

President Trump signed an executive order Wednesday aimed at preventing transgender athletes from competing in women's sports. It's the latest in a series of actions focused on "gender ideology."

February 05, 2025
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By:
  • Danielle Kurtzleben
The<strong> </strong>U.S. Supreme Court refused to partially limit two lower-court orders that had previously blocked the Biden administration’s new rules barring sex discrimination in schools that get federal aid.<br>

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  • Law

Supreme Court blocks Biden administration rules against sex discrimination in schools

The court’s action effectively bars the federal government from enforcing any portion of its new anti-discrimination rules while legal challenges are litigated in the lower courts.

August 17, 2024
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  • Nina Totenberg and
  • Jordan Thomas
"Our nation's educational institutions should be places where we not only accept differences, but celebrate them," U.S. Education Secretary Miguel Cardona, seen in the East Room of the White House in August 2023, said of the new Title IX regulation.

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  • Education

Biden administration adds Title IX protections for LGBTQ students, assault victims

The new rules also broaden the interpretation of Title IX to cover pregnant, gay and transgender students. They do not address whether schools can ban trans athletes from women's and girls' teams.

April 19, 2024
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By:
  • Tovia Smith
At Northwestern University, allegations of hazing in its football program led to the firing of longtime coach Pat Fitzgerald (right) and has the school facing multiple lawsuits, with more likely. Here, Fitzgerald leads the football team onto the field on Sept. 24, 2022, in Evanston, Illinois.

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  • Education

As hazing lawsuits mount against Northwestern, experts hope for a shift in attitudes

With allegations of hazing within several sports programs at Northwestern University, experts say that other U.S. universities should use this time to change their own cultures.

July 28, 2023
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  • Jonathan Franklin
Lauren Fleshman's memoir, <em>Good for a Girl: A Woman Running in a Man's World,</em> is a memoir and a critique of how the sports world treats female athletes.

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  • Sports

The sports world is still built for men. This elite runner wants to change that

Champion distance runner Lauren Fleshman says too many coaches assume — falsely — that what works for male athletes also benefits female athletes. Her memoir is Good for a Girl.

January 10, 2023
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  • Terry Gross
Amy Bryant coaches the Emory University women’s tennis team.

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  • Sports

Serena is not the only woman evolving away from tennis. Meet Emory's Amy Bryant

After 23 years, Amy Bryant, women's tennis coach at Emory University in Atlanta, is retiring.  Bryant is the first woman in NCAA history to win the national team championship as a coach and a player.

August 18, 2022
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  • Leah Fleming
The <em>Peanuts</em> characters reminded readers of the importance of Title IX at a moment when many schools and athletic programs were resistant to it.

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  • Arts & Life

'Peanuts,' one of the world's most popular cartoons, pushed for Title IX in the 1970s

Peanuts was a place where female athletes saw their presence on the playing field explicitly supported.

June 26, 2022
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  • Neda Ulaby
Education Secretary Miguel Cardona speaks at the White House on April 27. The Biden administration proposed a dramatic rewrite of campus sexual assault rules on Thursday, moving to expand protections for LGBTQ students, bolster the rights of victims and widen colleges' responsibilities in addressing sexual misconduct.

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  • Education

Biden's Title IX reforms would roll back Trump-era rules, expand victim protections

The administration proposed an overhaul of regulations to expand protections for LGBTQI+ students and require schools to respond to all sexual discrimination complaints.

June 23, 2022
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  • Dustin Jones
Less than a year after the Trump administration enacted new rules for how schools handle cases of sexual assault and harassment, President Biden is beginning the process to replace those.

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  • National

Biden Begins Process To Undo Trump Administration's Title IX Rules

Biden's effort to change the way cases of sexual assault and harassment are handled by schools is drawing both cheers and fears. The move comes less than a year after Trump enacted the rules.

March 11, 2021
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By:
  • Tovia Smith

Responding To Sexual Assaults At High Schools

Reports of sexual assaults on college campuses are all too common, but what's less-known are cases at the high school level. In both colleges and high...

October 12, 2016
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By:
  • Celeste Headlee and
  • Sean Powers

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