Department of Education Reverts to Trump’s Title IX Rule

The U.S Department of Education announced Friday that it will officially enforce the 2020 Title IX regulations, enacted during President Donald Trump’s first term, weeks after a federal judge struck down the contentious new regulations the Biden administration finalized last April. The Biden administration’s Title IX regulations were previously blocked in 26 states and at hundreds of colleges, so many institutions have still been following the 2020 regulations. But at colleges that had moved forward with implementing the Biden regulations, “open Title IX investigations initiated under the 2024 Title IX Rule should be immediately reoriented to comport fully with the requirements of the 2020 Title IX Rule,” according to the new guidance.