This piece first appeared in our weekly newsletter, The Fallout.
Conservative attorneys general ratcheted up their attacks on LGBTQ students in a series of lawsuits filed this week designed to block the Biden administration’s newly released rules targeting harassment and sex assault in schools.
The U.S. Department of Education’s new rules clarify that Title IX’s ban on sex discrimination in schools that receive federal funding also apply to discrimination on the basis of sexual orientation and gender identity. It is a necessary and overdue clarification that would bring Title IX in line........