On May 10, former President Donald Trump said he would roll back transgender student protections that the Biden administration enacted last month “on day one” of his presidency if he is re-elected in November, The Hill reported.
In April, the U.S. Education Department unveiled a final set of changes to Title IX—the federal civil rights law preventing sex discrimination in schools and education programs that receive government funding. The new regulations, set to take effect Aug. 1, cover bias based on sexual orientation and gender identity for the first time.
“We’re gonna end it on day one,” Trump said on the conservative Philadelphia-based talk-radio show “Kayal and Company.” “Don’t forget: That was done as an order from the president. That came down as an executive order. And we’re gonna change it; on day one it’s gonna be changed.”
Trump has also promised to enact at least a dozen policies targeting trans rights as president, including a nationwide ban on transgender student-athletes competing in accordance with their gender identity as well as a federal law that acknowledges only two genders. Republican leaders (such as Arkansas Gov. Sarah Huckabee Sanders), attorneys general and education officials have vowed to reject the law’s expanded protections for transgender students, and school districts in their state have been instructed to ignore them.