Education Department designates June 'Title IX' month amid quarrel over transgender athletes

The Department of Education on Monday designated June "Title IX" month, to signify the month that the legislation was signed into law, despite the month's usual celebration of the LGBTQ community.

The 1972 Title IX of the Educational Amendments was signed into law by former President Richard Nixon on June 23. 

The designation comes as the Trump administration moves to reverse some of the Biden administration's efforts to expand the law to protect transgender students in women's and girls' sports. 

“The Department is recognizing June as ‘Title IX Month’ to honor women’s hard-earned civil rights and demonstrate the Trump Administration’s unwavering commitment to restoring them to the fullest extent of the law," Education Secretary Linda McMahon said in a statement. 

"Title IX provides women protections on the basis of sex in all educational activities, which include their rights to equal opportunity in sports and sex-segregated intimate spaces, including sororities and living accommodations,” she said, adding that the administration will "fight on every front to protect women’s and girls’ sports, intimate spaces, dormitories and living quarters, and fraternal and panhellenic organizations."

The Trump administration has argued that allowing transgender women to compete against biological women gives them an unfair advantage because they are naturally stronger and faster.

The Education Department also announced Monday that it is launching an investigation into the University of Wyoming for allegedly allowing transgender women, who are born male, to join and live in female-only intimate and communal spaces.

June is typically celebrated as "Pride" month because it marks the anniversary of the 1969 Stonewall Uprising, a series of protests that took place in New York City following a police raid of a gay bar on June 28. 

Misty Severi is a news reporter for Just The News. You can follow her on X for more coverage.