On April 4, 2022, Parents Defending Education joined a diverse coalition of more than two dozen organizations in an open letter to the Office for Civil Rights at the U.S. Department of Education. The coalition, made up of education policy experts, public interest lawyers, civil rights leaders, women’s advocates, and thousands of parents and concerned citizens, urged the Department to end its Title IX rulemaking.
The Biden administration is about to propose a rule that would undo the Title IX regulation issued in 2020 and create a new definition of “sex” under Title IX. That change would wipe out 50 years of progress in women’s sports at schools, colleges, and universities, weaken due process and survivors’ rights, and erode the rights of parents in K-12 schools.
Read the full letter below: