Today, the U.S. Department of Education (the Department) marked the conclusion of the second annual 'Title IX Month' - honoring the fifty-fourth anniversary of Title IX of the Education Amendments of 1972 (Title IX) - by recapping the Trump Administration's continued efforts to protect women and girls and restore Title IX to its original promise.

Throughout the month of June, the Department's Office for Civil Rights (OCR) accomplished the following:

• Opened nine new investigations into schools and education agencies in North Carolina, Michigan, and Maryland over allegations that they allowed males to compete in girls' sports or access girls' intimate facilities.

• After issuing a final warning letter, took action against Jefferson County Public Schools in Colorado for allowing male students to participate in female sports, occupy female bathrooms and locker rooms, and even share overnight accommodations with females. If Jefferson County Public Schools fails to come into compliance with Title IX, it will face administrative enforcement by OCR or potential referral to the U.S. Department of Justice and the termination of federal funding.

• Took additional action to hold four Kansas school districts accountable for their ongoing violations of Title IX, despite their receipt of OCR's proposed Resolution Agreements, which, if implemented, would remedy the Districts' violations of federal law. Three of these cases have now been referred to the U.S. Department of Justice for further enforcement action.

• Celebrated the U.S. Supreme Court's decision in West Virginia v. B.P.J., which affirms the common sense right of states to prohibit men from competing in women's sports and reinforces the Administration's efforts to restore sex-based protections under Title IX.

"Title IX Month showcased exactly what the Trump Administration has promised from day one: action," said Assistant Secretary for Civil Rights Kimberly Richey. "We have fought to restore the integrity of Title IX, and that will never change. This is not complicated; we will continue to enforce federal law to the fullest extent to protect the rights and safety of our nation's young women and girls and restore common sense in this country."

Background

In 2025, the Department announced the first 'Title IX Month,' dedicating the month of June to commemorating women and celebrating their struggle for, and achievement of, equal educational opportunity.

Title IX prohibits discrimination on the basis of sex in any program or activity receiving financial assistance, but the Biden Administration distorted Title IX's sex-based protections to allow males to compete in women's sports and occupy women's intimate facilities based on self-professed 'gender identity,' not biological sex.

Within two weeks of taking office, the Department returned to enforcing the Trump Administration's 2020 Title IX rule after the Biden Administration's deeply flawed regulation was vacated by a federal court. This action realigned Title IX's sex-based protections with biological reality, not ideological fantasy. In February 2025, President Trump signed an Executive Order to protect opportunities for women and girls to compete in safe and fair sports. Over the past sixteen months, the Trump Administration has taken historic action to reverse the Biden Administration's immeasurable harm to women and girls and has restored Title IX to the letter of the law and its original intent by: 

• Securing Resolution Agreements with Higher Education Institutions: The Department signed resolution agreements, including with the University of Pennsylvania and Wagner College, which obligated them to re-establish sex-segregated sports and intimate facilities, restore to females their titles misappropriated by male athletes, and apologize to female athletes for their prior policies allowing sex discrimination.   

• Creating Title IX Special Investigations Team: The Department partnered with the U.S. Department of Justice to create the Title IX Special Investigations Team (Title IX SIT) consisting of expert attorneys and investigators to ensure consistent investigations and expeditious enforcement for Title IX violations. The Title IX SIT has probed the California Department of Education, California Interscholastic Federation, Washington Office of the Superintendent of Public Instruction, Minnesota Department of Education, and Minnesota State High School League. 

• Taking Enforcement Action: The Department has taken enforcement action when entities have refused to remediate their Title IX violations.  

• The Department initiated a termination proceeding for Maine Department of Education's (MDOE's) federal K-12 education funding and referring the MDOE case to the Department of Justice.  

• The Department placed five Northern Virginia School Districts on reimbursement status for all Department funds totaling over $50 million and designated them as "high-risk" within the federal grants system for their continued refusal to follow Title IX. This is to ensure that the Districts are expending federal funds consistent with federal law. 

• The Department referred the Minnesota Department of Education (MDE) and Minnesota State High School League (MSHSL), and the California Department of Education (CDE) and the California Interscholastic Federation (CIF), to DOJ for enforcement after these entities refused resolution agreements following findings of Title IX violations.