A federal judge struck down the Biden administration's 2024 Title IX rules nationwide in January 2025.
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Behind the BastardsOct 3, 2026
Multiple tier1 and primary sources (AP, Reuters, POLITICO, NAICU, Pitt, Department of Education fact sheet) report that federal judge Danny Reeves in the Eastern District of Kentucky vacated the Biden 2024 Title IX rule nationwide on January 9, 2025.
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… Those Biden rules broadened protections against sex discrimination to include explicitly extending those protections to discrimination based on sexual orientation and gender identity, and changed how schools could handle sexual harassment complaints. But those rules then got tied up in lawsuits, and in January of 2025, a federal judge struck them down nationwide. So the 2020 Trump rules were effectively kind of back in place, but what happened this week is that the Trump administration made that official. …
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Supports. AP reports a federal judge in Kentucky scrapped the entire 1,500-page Biden Title IX regulation nationwide in a decision issued Thursday, January 9, 2025.[1][6]
Supports. Reuters and POLITICO report U.S. District Judge Danny Reeves struck down or vacated the Biden rule, with POLITICO describing it as blocked nationwide.[2][5]
Supports. The Department of Education fact sheet states that on January 9, 2025, a federal district court vacated the 2024 rule nationwide.[3]
Supports. NAICU notes the vacatur left the 2020 Trump-era Title IX regulations in effect nationwide, consistent with the post's description of the 2020 rules returning.[4]
Sources
6 sources: 2 fact-checkers, 2 primary, 1 tier 2, 1 not rated
- 1Judge scraps Biden's Title IX rules, reversing expansion of ...apnews.com · fact-checker · cited for: supports
- 2Biden protections for transgender students struck down by ...reuters.com · fact-checker · cited for: supports
- 3Fact Sheet: Restoring Title IX Protections for Women and Girlsed.gov · primary source · cited for: supports
- 4Court Strikes Down Biden Title IX Rules Nationwidenaicu.edu · primary source · cited for: supports
- 5Federal judge vacates Biden's Title IX rule - POLITICOpolitico.com · tier 2 · cited for: supports
- 6Judge scraps Biden’s Title IX rules, reversing expansion of protections for LGBTQ+ students - The Boston Globebostonglobe.com · not rated · cited for: supports
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