April 6 (UPI) -- The Trump administration on Monday moved to end civil rights settlements with two colleges and five local school districts requiring them to prevent discrimination against transgender students.
The Department of Education announced that it would rescind resolution agreements made by the Obama and Biden administrations over Title IX violations that included penalties for refusing to use preferred student pronouns or asking about a student's preferred gender.
In addition to attempting to root out diversity, equity and inclusion programs, or DEI, the administration has worked to roll back protections for transgender people.
"The Trump administration is removing the unnecessary and unlawful burdens that prior administrations imposed on schools in its relentless pursuit of a radical transgender agenda," Kimberly Richey, the Education Department's assistant secretary for civil rights, said in a press release.
"While previous administrations launched Title IX investigations based on 'misgendering,' the Trump administration is investigating allegations of girls and women being injured by men on their sports team or feeling violated by men in their intimate spaces," Richey said.
