Posted on Tuesday, June 3, 2025
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by Alan Jamison
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The U.S. Department of Education (DOE) announced Monday that it will officially recognize June as “Title IX Month” – ditching the Biden administration’s ostentatious embrace of “Pride Month” celebrations.
“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. “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.”
DOE will also place a special focus this month on additional actions to protect women in education aligned with the original intent of Title IX. Accordingly, the department’s Office for Civil Rights (OCR) recently launched investigations into the University of Wyoming and Jefferson County Public Schools in Colorado “for allegedly allowing males to join and live in female-only intimate and communal spaces.”
The DOE explained that the investigation into the University of Wyoming is a result of the school allowing a male to join and live in the sorority Kappa Kappa Gamma. Members of the sorority subsequently sued the school in an attempt to push back.
The Daily Wire reported that the male student would “allegedly watch, with a visible erection, as female students changed or walked through the sorority house in their towels.” The DOE stated that a sorority “that admits male students is no longer a sorority by definition and thus loses the Title IX statutory exemption for a sorority’s single-sex membership practices.”
The investigation into Jefferson County Public Schools is a result of the district’s policy that explains students will be “assigned to share overnight accommodations with other students that share a student’s ‘gender identity.’” In other words, if a male student identifies as a girl, the school would force female students to share hotel rooms with that male student on overnight trips.
This policy is more than just theoretical. In 2023, the school district assigned an 11-year-old girl to share a bed on a field trip with a boy who identified as a girl. After the girl’s parents pushed back, chaperones of the field trip eventually moved the boy to another room. A district teacher then told the girl and her roommates that they were not allowed to tell anyone else that the boy was transgender.
Parental rights advocates and lawmakers have praised the DOE’s decision to name June as Title IX Month. Defending Education’s Vice President Sarah Parshall Perry stated on X that having an administration that cares about women is a “welcome change.” Alabama Senator Tommy Tuberville also commended the department’s efforts.
“Title IX is one of the most successful pieces of legislation to come out of the U.S. Congress,” Tuberville posted on X. “As we celebrate the 53rd anniversary of this historic legislation, I’m glad to join @EDSecMcMahon and @USEDgov in recognizing TITLE IX MONTH.”
The decision of the Trump administration’s DOE to designate June as “Title IX Month” is in stark contrast to the Biden administration. Under Joe Biden, the DOE celebrated so-called “Pride Month” each year and promoted teaching children about controversial LGBTQ issues, often without parental consent.
As AMAC Newsline previously reported, the Biden administration also sought to overhaul Title IX to require that all federally funded education institutions allow male students to compete in women’s sports and use female restrooms and locker rooms. The Trump administration swiftly reversed those actions and has pledged to instead withhold funding for any schools that allow males to compete on women’s sports teams or enter female-only spaces.
Alan Jamison is the pen name of a political writer with extensive experience writing for several notable politicians and news outlets.
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