Education Department slams Biden admin for prioritizing pronoun issues over antisemitism

A Department of Education (DOE) spokesperson on Wednesday slammed the department under the Biden administration for allegedly prioritizing cases related to pronouns and book bans instead of allegations of antisemitism. 

The department official said its Office for Civil Rights (OCR) still has nearly 200 antisemitism complaints from the Biden administration that were in the early evaluation stages or in later investigatory stages, including 150 that were filed after the October 7 attack on Israel in 2023.

The official said part of this was because of the Biden administration's decision to incorporate gender identity issues within the scope of Title IX.

"The Biden administration placed an undue burden on OCR by stretching the scope of civil rights law beyond its statutory purview," DOE spokeswoman Julie Hartman told Fox News. "The Trump OCR is cleaning that up daily. By enforcing the law as it is written, the Trump administration’s OCR is using its personnel and resources responsibly and eliminating wasteful and unfounded investigations."

Hartman said the decision to include misgendering cases in the OCR's workload had spread the office too thin, and made them focus on pronoun cases over other alleged civil rights violations.

The accusation comes as the new Trump administration looks to drastically reduce, and ultimately eliminate, the Department of Education, in order to give states more authority over student education. 

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