Former President Donald Trump pledges to reverse protections for transgender students put in place by President Joe Biden as soon as he takes office, if he is elected in November.
“We’re gonna end it on day one,” Trump stated Friday during an interview with the Philadelphia conservative talk radio show Kayal and Company, The Hill reported. “Don’t forget, that was done as an order from the president. That came down as an executive order. And we’re gonna change it — on day one it’s gonna be changed…. Tell your people not to worry about it. It’ll be signed on day one. It’ll be terminated.”
Trump was talking about Biden’s 2021 executive order in which he wrote, “all students should be guaranteed an educational environment free from discrimination on the basis of sex … including discrimination on the basis of sexual orientation or gender identity.”
Biden’s executive order directed his Department of Education (DOE) to review pre-existing federal sex discrimination laws in order to address protections for LGBTQ+ students and others.
In April, the DOE unveiled new rules regarding Title IX of the Education Amendments of 1972, a law that prohibits sex-based discrimination in any schools that receive federal funding.
The new rules require schools to allow students to use facilities, n