Trump has revoked the rules that extended the Title IX to explicitly protect students and workers from discrimination based on sexual orientation and gender identity
The administration of US President Donald Trump has formally revoked rules passed during the Joe Biden administration that expanded protections against sex discrimination in schools to explicitly include sexual orientation and gender identity.
Education Secretary Linda McMahon announced the measure in a statement noting that the government is removing the regulation approved in 2024 from the federal registry and reinstating the rules established during Trump 's first term , which the Administration has been applying since January 2025.
Biden 's regulations , passed in 2024, explicitly interpreted for the first time that Title IX, the 1972 federal law that prohibits discrimination based on sex in educational programs that receive federal funding, also protected against discrimination based on sexual orientation and gender identity.
Return to the 2020 regulatory framework
These safeguards applied to both students and staff at federally funded schools. The regulation also broadened the definition of sex-based harassment to include behaviors related to sexual orientation and gender identity, in addition to considering sexual assault, intimate partner violence, domestic violence and harassment.
With the Trump administration's decision , the Department of Education formally returns to the 2020 regulatory framework, which established a more limited definition of sexual harassment and provided greater due process guarantees for accused students.
The practical scope of the decision is, however, limited. Biden 's rules had already ceased to apply since January 2025, after several US courts blocked and subsequently struck them down. The revocation now announced formalizes that return to the previous regulatory framework.
