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Civil rights groups sound alarm over Energy Department Title IX regs

“This is a clear example about how the anti-trans sports ban executive order doesn’t do anything to protect women and girls,” said Shiwali Patel, senior director of safe and inclusive schools at the National Women’s Law...

Trump Administration Attempts to Rush Changes to Civil Rights Regs

“Their rationale … assumes that masculinity is associated with athleticism and strength and that femininity is associated with weakness,” said Shiwali Patel, director of safe and inclusive schools at the National Women’s Law Center. “These are...

Why did the Energy Department issue a Title IX rule?

Still, Shiwali Patel, senior director of safe and inclusive schools for the National Women’s Law Center, called the Energy Department rule “blatant sexism, and harmful to women and girls.” ″The Trump administration is trying to gut...

Energy Department seeks to roll back Title IX protections for women’s, education programs

“Technically, it just takes one significant adverse comment for them to have to withdraw the rule or to go through the notice of proposed rulemaking,” said Shiwali Patel, senior director of safe and inclusive schools...

Trump’s Energy Department proposes dismantling parts of Title IX allowing girls on boys’ teams

DFRs are exempt from parts of the standard rulemaking process, with which federal agencies must comply under the Administrative Procedures Act. Agencies may use DFRs when addressing issues that are technical, uncontroversial or unlikely to elicit a...

Weinstein trial: What the verdict means for the MeToo movement

But has anything really changed since the first Weinstein trial? Jennifer Mondino of the National Women's Law Center says in a ZDF interview: "People are more likely to believe survivors today than they were at...