A group of nearly 70 House Republicans is making an effort to reverse the Biden administration’s recent Title IX reforms, which expand protection for transgender students. Rep. Mary Miller (R-Ill.) led 67 GOP lawmakers in proposing a bill to counter the new reforms they argue are negatively impacting the progress women have made in securing their rights under Title IX.
The lawmakers assert that the current administration’s policy poses risks by allowing access to women’s bathrooms and locker rooms to what they’ve termed as ‘men,’ arguing that this undermines the intent with which Title IX protections were designed.
Title IX is a long-established civil rights law aimed at preventing sex-based discrimination in educational institutions benefiting from federal financial assistance. Critics of its latest update in April, which broadens the definition of discrimination to include sexual orientation and gender identity, worry that this could compromise the hard-fought protections established for women and girls.
There has been legal pushback against the Biden Administration’s alterations to Title IX, with lawsuits from a minimum of 26 GOP-steered states. The most recent lawsuit was lodged by the attorneys general of Kansas, Utah, Alaska, and Wyoming.