Education Department Stacked With Staff from Linda McMahon’s Think Tank
But civil rights advocates said the department’s core function is to protect the rights of all students. Many who fought for LGBTQ students’ rights during the Obama administration are alarmed.
The 2016 guidance on rights for trans students were “developed after years of meeting with stakeholder groups, tracking the case law developments and looking at the research,” said Shiwali Patel, an attorney with the National Women’s Law Center who worked in the Obama administration and left during Trump’s first term. While the Biden administration wrote those protections into Title IX, Trump’s picks, she said, are undoing that regulation “without thoughtfulness and care.”