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Georgetown University, located in Washington, DC, is the nation's oldest Catholic and Jesuit university.

Georgetown law student wins petition for pregnancy accommodations after initial denial

Nov 26, 2024

By Kate Quiñones

Only after students organized a petition, which quickly went viral, did Brittany Lovely get permission to schedule her exam ahead... Read more

Panelists discuss how the transgender movement is impacting young women in particular at the 2024 Pray Vote Stand Summit panel “Saving America’s Daughters: Title IX and the Fight for Fairness.” From left to right: moderator Joseph Backholm, Macy Petty, Doreen Denny, and William Bock.

Pray Vote Stand Summit panelists push back against administration’s trans agenda

Oct 7, 2024

By Madalaine Elhabbal

Panelists at the annual Pray Vote Stand Summit in Washington, D.C., this past weekend discussed how the transgender movement is... Read more

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Federal courts rule in favor of transgender-identifying athletes in two states

Aug 20, 2024

By Daniel Payne

In other states, the Biden administration’s expansion of Title IX regulations has suffered significant court losses in recent months. Read more

Paula Scanlan, a women’s sports activist and former teammate of trans-identifying athlete Lia Thomas on the University of Pennsylvania women’s swim team, speaks to a crowd about her story. Originally only speaking out anonymously, Scanlan has since gone public about the emotional impact of having to share a locker room with a biological male had on her as a sexual assault survivor.

Biden’s Title IX gender-identity protections have been blocked in 26 states: What to know

Aug 19, 2024

By Peter Pinedo

The new guidelines prohibit any policy that “prevents a person from participating in an education program or activity consistent with... Read more

U.S. Supreme Court.

Supreme Court rejects Biden administration request to partially enforce new Title IX rules

Aug 16, 2024

By Daniel Payne

Several lower courts have already blocked the government’s more controversial new Title IX regulations concerning “gender identity.” Read more

The U.S. Department of Education sign hangs over the entrance to the federal building housing the agency's headquarters on Feb. 9, 2024, in Washington, D.C.

Appeals court rejects Biden administration request to enforce ‘gender identity’ Title IX rules

Jul 19, 2024

By Tyler Arnold

The Court of Appeals upheld a lower court ruling that prevents the Department of Education from enforcing any part of... Read more

U.S. Department of Education building in Washington, D.C.

Judge blocks Biden administration’s inclusion of ‘gender identity’ in Title IX regulations

Jul 3, 2024

By Tyler Arnold

U.S. District Court Judge John Broomes issued a ruling that blocks enforcement of the regulation in every school and college... Read more

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Judge blocks Biden gender identity protection rule in 6 states

Jun 18, 2024

By Kate Quiñones

“There are two sexes: male and female,” began Chief Judge Danny Reeves of the U.S. District Court for the Eastern... Read more

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Two court rulings deal blow, victory to U.S. transgender advocates

Jun 12, 2024

By Daniel Payne

Two court rulings in Florida and Texas simultaneously dealt both a victory and a setback to transgender advocates in the... Read more

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In Title IX lawsuit, Texas professors say they won’t accommodate students who get abortions

Jun 3, 2024

By Daniel Payne

New U.S. Department of Education regulations prohibit “discriminating” against a woman for choosing to have an abortion. Read more

Franciscan University of Steubenville, Ohio, chapel and statue.

Franciscan University rejects Biden administration’s transgender policies in Title IX

Apr 26, 2024

By Tyler Arnold

The announcement comes after President Joe Biden’s Department of Education issued a new interpretation of Title IX.  Read more

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Biden Title IX changes affect state laws on women’s sports, locker rooms, lawyers warn

Apr 26, 2024

By Tyler Arnold

The new guidelines prohibit any policy or practice that “prevents a person from participating in an education program or activity... Read more

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Biden administration redefines sex discrimination in Title IX to include ‘gender identity’

Apr 19, 2024

By Tyler Arnold

The new rules redefine the prohibition on sex discrimination for schools and education programs that receive federal funding. Read more

Penn University transgender swimmer Lia Thomas celebrates taking first place in the 500-yard freestyle race with a time of 4.37.32 during the championship final race in heat three during the Women's Ivy League Swimming & Diving Championships at Harvard University in Cambridge, Massachusetts, on Feb. 17, 2022.

College sports association bans biological men from women’s sports

Apr 9, 2024

By Kate Quiñones

Colleges such as Benedictine College and Ave Maria University are members of the NAIA, which issued a ban on biological... Read more

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Court rules that religious schools’ tax-exempt status does not make them subject to Title IX 

Apr 3, 2024

By Daniel Payne

A lower court had previously ruled against the school, arguing that the school’s tax-exempt status in and of itself constituted... Read more

Female student athletes prepare to take their case for fairness in sports to court Thursday.

Four female athletes challenge Connecticut policy in fight to save women’s sports

Sep 29, 2022

By Edie Heipel

Four female student athletes are at the center of an ongoing case to protect girls’ sports, which advanced to the... Read more

Madisan DeBos, a Division I track and cross country student-athlete at Southern Utah University, speaks at the "Our Bodies, Our Sports" rally in Washington, D.C., on June 23, 2022.

Democrat senators urge stronger LGBT mandates in Biden’s sex discrimination rule

Sep 13, 2022

By Edie Heipel

A group of Democrat senators urged the Biden administration to add even stronger mandates to its proposed Title IX rule... Read more

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‘Clerical error’ wipes out thousands of comments on new Biden gender-identity discrimination rule

Sep 12, 2022

By Edie Heipel

Hundreds of thousands of comments on a rule that would re-interpret sex discrimination to include “sexual orientation or gender identity”... Read more

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USDA exempts religious schools from LGBT rule change threatening free lunch funds

Aug 31, 2022

By Edie Heipel

The department published a memo that includes an exception for schools to “be exempt on religious grounds if there is... Read more

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Catholic schools’ free lunch funds jeopardized by Biden LGBT rule change

Aug 10, 2022

By Edie Heipel, Joe Bukuras

A reinterpreted discrimination ban puts pressure on schools not aligned with the Biden administration’s LGBTQ agenda that rely on federal... Read more