The US Department of Education told staff at the end of Friday that to complete all programs, contracts and policies that “will not confirm the reality of the biological sex”, fulfilling the promise of President Donald Trump to limit the rights of transgenders.
The broad language in the email did not determine what programs and politicians will affect or how many schools and students can affect. But the order seems intended to focus on the programs that In recent years Support Students -Transgender – Mental health services based on school And, for example, support for homeless students.
“These corrective measures will include a careful review and subsequent termination of departmental programs, contracts, policy, external media, rules and internal practices,” the e -mail directed by the department’s staff and received propublica.
The press -secretary of the education department did not immediately respond to the requests for comment.
An email that has been unsigned and sent from “ED Internal Communications” also strives for the staff programs in the education department. Federal government officers have already instructed to remove preferred pronouns from their signatures by email.
“Groups of resources staff who promote gender ideology and do not confirm the reality of the biological sex, cannot meet on state property and do not happen during official working hours,” the e -mail said.
It is unclear what resources groups refer to or exist.
Trump’s administration contained transgenders in other federal agencies; he has banned transgender people serve in the armyPolicy restoration from Trump’s first term, and in federal prisons he tried to transfer transgender women to men’s objects, the judge blocked.
The main directive, set out in the e -mail of the education department, follows the last two executive orders aimed at “gender ideology”. The first, “By upholding women from gender ideology extremism and restoration of biological truth federal government“Ordering the Federal Agency to scrape links to transgenders from documents, rules and politics. For example, the department complied with the order, for example, Removal of resources As tips for schools on how to support homeless LGBTQ+ youth.
Another executive order issued this week “Avoid men from women’s sports“Banned by transgender -sportsmen to participate in women’s sports at school. Education Department on Thursday announced an investigation into two universities and a sports association Related to transgender athletes and alleged violations of the IX names, a federal law, which is part of the civil rights law and prohibits discrimination based on sex in education. On the same day, NCAA reacted, banning athletes who were identified as a man at birth from women’s sports.
An e -letter sent to an employee on Friday, in the afternoon, said: “Deliberate subordination of women and girls with the help of gender ideology – in intimate spaces, armed language or American classes – abandoned civil rights of biological women and contributed to distrust of our federal institutions. “
Linda McMuhon, a nominee of Trump for the Ministers of Education, is still waiting for confirmation.
She co -founded with her husband of the world struggle and chairman of America of the First Political Institute, a non -profit organization that campaigned against the rights of transgenders in schools.
Even without Machahon, like -minded people are already working in the department, including several employees from its Conservative Analytical Center. Biography of the recently appointed Deputy General Lawyer Candis JacksonFor example, he exposes his experience “challenged by the harmful impact of the concept of” gender identity “in laws and politics in schools.”
Schools in recent years have survived the decay when the presidents were imposed – and then removed – protection for transgender youth.
According to President Barack Obama in 2016, the Department issued recommendations in schools that the Federal Law on the IX Title Protecting the Right of Students’ Transgender to use toilets and lockers at school that correspond to their gender identity.
Schools “should not consider a transgender student in a different way from how he relates to other students from the same gender identity,” the letter reads.
Trump canceled this leadership after he entered the post in 2017, although the letter remained on the website of the education department. In 2021, the Biden administration took the position that transgender students deserved defense against discrimination in accordance with the IX and Posted resources for schools and lgbtq+ the students they serve.
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Now that Trump returned to the post again, many of these resources have been destroyed from the department.
“President Trump is a major hooligan. This administration wants to forbid kindness and general decency in schools and make the teachers to call their students by name they want to call,” said Rodrigo Hen-Lehtinen’s statement ” “.
Trump’s vision in his second administration includes the dismantling of the education department. It is unclear whether there is a legal path but already the administration has placed more than 50 officers of the department on administrative rest Which seems to be related to diversity, justice or inclusion.
Concerns have arisen in the education department all week. It is reported to be members of the team Elon Musk Learned about the sensitive data of the departmentAnd some Congress members headed to the Kwator headquarters to question the team but were denied. Responding to positions in the social media of one representative who was blocked from the building, Musk placed on X: “There is no such department in the federal government.”
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