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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 at the National Women’s Law Center, of the DOE’s direct final rule. “However, we’re dealing with an administration that has made very clear that they are not about complying with the law … We’ve seen with this administration that they are willing to use other federal agencies to weaponize Title IX in the context of sports.”