Trump DOJ, Education Dept form task force to protect female athletes from 'gender ideology' in schools, sports

The Trump administration launched a caller investigative portion to support "female athletes, from the pernicious effects of sex ideology successful schoolhouse programs and activities" connected Friday, further clamping down connected transgender women successful schoolhouse sports and sending a informing awesome to states defying the president's enforcement orders.

The Department of Education (DOE) and the Department of Justice (DOJ) announced the Title IX Special Investigations Team (SIT) to grip cases, peculiarly targeting transgender women successful sports, due to the fact that "traditionally, our Office for Civil Rights [OCR] takes months, adjacent years, to implicit Title IX investigations," Education Secretary Linda McMahon said Friday.

"OCR nether this Administration has moved faster than it ever has, and the Title IX SIT volition guarantee adjacent much accelerated and accordant investigations," McMahon said. "To each the entities that proceed to let men to vie successful women’s sports and usage women’s intimate facilities: there’s a caller sheriff successful town. We volition not let you to get distant with denying women's civilian rights immoderate longer."

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The Education Department has canceled assorted grants and contracts since President Donald Trump took office. (Getty Images)

The team, drawn from some agencies, volition instrumentality a accelerated process to grip the increasing fig of cases to manus implicit investigations to imaginable DOJ enforcement. McMahon said the Title IX unit "will payment women and girls crossed this federation who person been subjected to favoritism and indignity successful their acquisition activities."

"Protecting women and women’s sports is simply a cardinal precedence for this Department of Justice," Attorney General Pam Bondi said Friday. "This collaborative effort with the Department of Education volition alteration our attorneys to instrumentality broad enactment erstwhile women’s sports oregon spaces are threatened and usage the afloat powerfulness of the instrumentality to remedy immoderate usurpation of women’s civilian rights."

The portion comprises investigators and attorneys from the OCR, DOE Office of General Counsel, and the DOE Office of Student Privacy and Protection, on with caseworkers and an FSA Enforcement investigator. The portion besides includes attorneys from the DOJ's Civil Rights Division.

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Secretary of Education Linda McMahon speaks to reporters astatine the White House successful Washington, D.C., connected Thursday, March 20, 2025. (AP Photo/Ben Curtis)

The investigative portion volition enforce Title IX protections with President Donald Trump's enforcement orders connected "Keeping Men Out of Women’s Sports" and "Defending Women from Gender Ideology Extremism."

The portion comes arsenic Trump has been facing pushback from some lawmakers and judges for his gender-related orders.

Trump and Democratic Maine Gov. Janet Mills sparred successful February implicit Trump's bid banning biologic males from women's sports. During a National Governors Association meeting, Trump accused Mills of defying national orders by continuing to let transgender women to vie successful women’s sports. Following the confrontation, the Trump medication launched investigations into Maine’s acquisition department.

The U.S. Department of Agriculture besides froze funds to definite acquisition programs successful Maine owed to the state's rebellion. Agriculture Secretary Brooke Rollins indicated the backing frost could beryllium lifted if Maine aligns with national interpretations of Title IX.

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President Donald Trump told Maine Gov. Janet Mills that her authorities needs to comply with an enforcement bid connected transgender athletes successful schoolhouse sports, during a Friday, Feb. 21, 2025 lawsuit astatine the White House. (Reuters Photos | Pool)

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Trump's Title IX portion comes aft the Biden administration updated Title IX regulations successful 2021 and 2022 to grow protections for LGBTQ+ students, interpreting the law’s prohibition connected enactment favoritism to see sex individuality and intersexual orientation.

Under then-President Joe Biden's interpretation, transgender students were protected successful sports, bathrooms, changing country facilities and successful different acquisition programs.