{"id":2672136,"date":"2026-09-28T19:13:00","date_gmt":"2026-09-28T23:13:00","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/department-of-education-officially-axes-bidens-illegal-title-ix-rewrite\/"},"modified":"2026-09-28T19:19:38","modified_gmt":"2026-09-28T23:19:38","slug":"department-of-education-officially-axes-bidens-illegal-title-ix-rewrite","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/department-of-education-officially-axes-bidens-illegal-title-ix-rewrite\/","title":{"rendered":"Department of Education Officially Axes Biden&#8217;s &#8216;Illegal Title IX Rewrite&#8217;"},"content":{"rendered":"<aside class=\"mashsb-container mashsb-main mashsb-stretched\"><div class=\"mashsb-box\"><div class=\"mashsb-count mash-medium\" style=\"&quot;\"><div class=\"counts mashsbcount\">20<\/div><span class=\"mashsb-sharetext\">SHARES<\/span><\/div><div class=\"mashsb-buttons\"><a class=\"mashicon-facebook mash-medium mash-nomargin mashsb-noshadow\" href=\"https:\/\/www.facebook.com\/sharer.php?u=https%3A%2F%2Fwww.conservativenewsdaily.net%2Fbreaking-news%2Fdepartment-of-education-officially-axes-bidens-illegal-title-ix-rewrite%2F\" target=\"_top\" rel=\"nofollow\"><span class=\"icon\"><\/span><span class=\"text\">Facebook<\/span><\/a><a class=\"mashicon-twitter mash-medium mash-nomargin mashsb-noshadow\" href=\"https:\/\/twitter.com\/intent\/tweet?text=&amp;url=https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/?p=2672136&amp;via=ConservNewsDly\" target=\"_top\" rel=\"nofollow\"><span class=\"icon\"><\/span><span class=\"text\">Twitter<\/span><\/a><a class=\"mashicon-subscribe mash-medium mash-nomargin mashsb-noshadow\" href=\"#\" target=\"_top\" rel=\"nofollow\"><span class=\"icon\"><\/span><span class=\"text\">Subscribe<\/span><\/a><div class=\"onoffswitch2 mash-medium mashsb-noshadow\" style=\"display:none\"><\/div><\/div>\n            <\/div>\n                <div style=\"clear:both\"><\/div><\/aside>\n            <!-- Share buttons by mashshare.net - Version: 4.0.47--><p>Teh U.S. Department of Education has officially rescinded the Biden administration\u2019s 2024 Title IX regulation and reinstated the 2020 rules from the Trump administration. The 2024 rewrite was deemed illegal and has been replaced to align with the prior regulations, clarifying that Title IX protections are based on biological sex rather than gender identity. This change aims to reduce confusion among schools, parents, and students by enforcing clear standards that boys and men participate in men&#8217;s sports and girls and women in women&#8217;s sports. The move follows court rulings that blocked the Biden-era changes, and enforcement tools have been used to ensure compliance, including investigating violations and withholding funding from non-compliant schools. The department emphasizes that Title IX&#8217;s core purpose is to provide equal opportunities based on sex, and recent actions undo efforts to expand protections to gender identity in educational settings.  <\/p>\n<p class=\"readmore\">\n    <button onclick=\"showReadMore()\" id=\"readmorebtn\">Read more&#8230;<\/button>\n<\/p>\n<hr id=\"line\">\n<span id=\"more\"><br \/>\n<!DOCTYPE html PUBLIC \"-\/\/W3C\/\/DTD HTML 4.0 Transitional\/\/EN\" \"http:\/\/www.w3.org\/TR\/REC-html40\/loose.dtd\"><br \/>\n<?xml encoding=\"utf-8\" ?><?xml encoding=\"utf-8\" ?><?xml encoding=\"utf-8\" ?><?xml encoding=\"utf-8\" ?><?xml encoding=\"utf-8\" ?><?xml encoding=\"utf-8\" ?><?xml encoding=\"utf-8\" ?><?xml encoding=\"utf-8\" ?><?xml encoding=\"utf-8\" ?><?xml encoding=\"utf-8\" ?><?xml encoding=\"utf-8\" ?><?xml encoding=\"utf-8\" ?><?xml encoding=\"utf-8\" ?><?xml encoding=\"utf-8\" ?><?xml encoding=\"utf-8\" ?><?xml encoding=\"utf-8\" ?><?xml encoding=\"utf-8\" ?><html><body><\/p>\n<section> \t\t\t\t<script>console.log(\"ad slot (AC1)\")<\/script><script>console.log(\"ad slot (IC1)\")<\/script><script>console.log(\"ad slot (IC2)\")<\/script><script>console.log(\"ad slot (IC3)\")<\/script><script>console.log(\"ad slot (IC4)\")<\/script><script>console.log(\"ad slot (REP_0)\")<\/script><\/p>\n<p>The U.S. Department of Education said Monday it has formally rescinded the Biden administration\u2019s 2024 Title IX regulation and restored the 2020 rule to the Code of Federal Regulations.<\/p>\n<p>Officials described the 2024 rewrite as illegal and said the <a href=\"http:\/\/www.ed.gov\/about\/news\/press-release\/us-department-of-education-formally-rescinds-biden-administrations-illegal-title-ix-rewrite-reinstating-2020-regulation\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">published text<\/a> will now match the rule that has been enforced since early in President Donald Trump\u2019s second term.<\/p>\n<p>Title IX of the Education Amendments of 1972 barred sex discrimination in education programs that take federal money. The statute has long been the legal basis for sex-separated sports, locker rooms, and bathrooms in those schools.<\/p>\n<p>The fight of the last two administrations has been over whether \u201csex\u201d in that law also means gender identity.<\/p>\n<p>The Biden Education Department\u2019s 2024 rule expanded <a href=\"https:\/\/www.politico.com\/news\/2026\/09\/28\/trump-administration-finalizes-repeal-of-biden-era-title-ix-rule-01094990\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">sex discrimination<\/a> protections to cover gender identity.<\/p>\n<p>Courts blocked that regulation. The department said eight courts enjoined it and two later vacated it. Remaining suits over the Biden-era text were dismissed last month, the department said, which opened the path for Monday\u2019s final action.<\/p>\n<p>Just 11 days into Trump\u2019s current term, after those court losses for the 2024 rule, Department of Education officials announced they would enforce the first Trump administration\u2019s 2020 Title IX regulations. Monday\u2019s filing puts that 2020 language back on the books as the official code text rather than leaving schools to track enforcement memos alone.<\/p>\n<p>Education Secretary Linda McMahon <a href=\"https:\/\/magnoliatribune.com\/2026\/09\/28\/u-s-dept-of-education-rescinds-biden-era-attempt-to-expand-title-ix-beyond-biological-reality\/\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">said<\/a> the rulemaking clears the Biden Administration\u2019s \u201cillegal rewrite of Title IX from the Code of Federal Regulations and restores the commonsense language promulgated in the first Trump Administration.\u201d<\/p>\n<p>She said the published rule now tracks court orders and congressional intent, and should reduce \u201cconfusion for parents, students, and educational institutions.\u201d<\/p>\n<p>McMahon told <a href=\"https:\/\/www.foxnews.com\/outkick-sports\/education-department-rescinds-biden-title-ix-rule-restores-trump-era-regulations\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">OutKick<\/a> the step is meant to make the standard unmistakable. \u201cWe\u2019re just acknowledging that boys and men are in boys and men\u2019s sports and girls are in theirs,\u201d she said.<\/p>\n<p>When asked what the paperwork change does if the Department of Education was already applying the 2020 rule, she said it \u201cgives clarification to students, teachers, schools, parents.\u201d<\/p>\n<p>She did not announce a new nationwide compliance deadline. Schools, she said, should return to the Trump-era regulations.<\/p>\n<p>\u201cTitle IX was set up to give everyone, including women, equal opportunity to sports. And then under the Biden regulations, many of those rights had been taken away.\u201d<\/p>\n<p>The Monday release said Biden-era civil rights staff pushed schools to let males into women\u2019s sports and private facilities, and investigated employees over pronouns. The Trump administration said it has withdrawn those resolution agreements.<\/p>\n<p>Over the past 19 months, the department listed other steps: a joint <a href=\"https:\/\/www.ed.gov\/about\/news\/press-release\/us-department-of-education-and-us-department-of-justice-announce-title-ix-special-investigations-team\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">Title IX Special Investigations Team<\/a> with the Justice Department; probes of state education agencies and high school federations in California, Washington, and Minnesota; and cases involving districts and colleges accused of letting males into girls\u2019 competitions or intimate spaces.<\/p>\n<blockquote class=\"twitter-tweet\">\n<p dir=\"ltr\" lang=\"en\">Today, the Trump Administration is formally putting into regulation what the law has said all along: Title IX\u2019s protections are based on SEX, not \u201cgender identity.\u201d https:\/\/t.co\/N0K36S90Dy<\/p>\n<p>\u2014 U.S. Department of Education (@usedgov) <a href=\"https:\/\/x.com\/usedgov\/status\/2104575651139158425?\">September 28, 2026<\/a><\/p>\n<\/blockquote>\n<p><script async src=\"https:\/\/platform.x.com\/widgets.js\" charset=\"utf-8\"><\/script><br \/>  Enforcement tools cited in the release include a proceeding to terminate Maine\u2019s federal K-12 education funding and a referral of that matter to Justice; \u201chigh-risk\u201d and reimbursement status for five Northern Virginia districts covering more than $50 million in department funds; and Justice referrals for Minnesota and California agencies after they refused resolution deals following Title IX findings.<\/p>\n<p>McMahon <a href=\"https:\/\/www.foxbangor.com\/news\/national\/education-department-rescinds-biden-title-ix-rule-restores-trump-era-regulations\/article_5b5988c3-0dbc-5fc0-9dc6-af7d073a8b36.html\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">said<\/a> high-risk reimbursement status means a recipient does not get money up front and must show receipts. \u201cWe therefore can confirm that they are spending the money in ways that it should be spent,\u201d she said, adding that states and schools which ignore Title IX can face several kinds of consequences.<\/p>\n<p>The Department of Education pointed to a 2025 resolution with the University of Pennsylvania that required the school to restore sex-separated sports and facilities, return titles taken by a male swimmer, and apologize to female athletes.<\/p>\n<p>McMahon said those titles went back to the women who had won them, noting that other cases would be handled as well.<\/p>\n<p>A separate Biden <a href=\"https:\/\/www.wfmd.com\/2026\/09\/28\/education-department-rescinds-biden-title-ix-rule-restores-trump-era-regulations\/\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">proposal<\/a> on athletic eligibility was withdrawn in December 2024. On June 30, 2026, the Supreme Court upheld Idaho and West Virginia laws limiting girls\u2019 and women\u2019s sports to females. McMahon, asked about a national eligibility rule, said the answer is Title IX itself: \u201cIt is in law, it exists, it\u2019s a statute, and it should be obeyed.\u201d<\/p>\n<blockquote class=\"twitter-tweet\">\n<p dir=\"ltr\" lang=\"en\">MEN do not belong in WOMEN\u2019S sports.<\/p>\n<p>It\u2019s really that simple.<\/p>\n<p>\u2014 U.S. Department of Education (@usedgov) <a href=\"https:\/\/x.com\/usedgov\/status\/2104605863772037366?\">September 28, 2026<\/a><\/p>\n<\/blockquote>\n<p><script async src=\"https:\/\/platform.x.com\/widgets.js\" charset=\"utf-8\"><\/script><br \/>  The department posted a fact sheet with Monday\u2019s final rule. Parents who say a daughter is being told to compete against a male athlete or  a locker room were told to go first to school officials, including the superintendent, and to report the situation to federal authorities.<\/p>\n<p>McMahon did not give a timeline for how fast the Office for Civil Rights would step in.<\/p>\n<p>Schools that receive federal aid are now on notice that the Code text matches the 2020 regulation the current administration has treated as controlling since January 2025. 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