The Department of Education (ED) and the Department of Justice (DOJ) announced the Title IX Special Investigations Team (SIT) to protect students from gender ideology in schools, including males in female sports and locker rooms.
“Protecting women and women’s sports is a key priority for this Department of Justice,” Attorney General Pam Bondi said in a statement. “This collaborative effort with the Department of Education will enable our attorneys to take comprehensive action when women’s sports or spaces are threatened and use the full power of the law to remedy any violation of women’s civil rights.”
Secretary of Education Linda McMahon said investigators from both agencies will make decisions over the “ever-increasing volume of Title IX investigations.”
“We have received a staggering number of complaints about men competing in women’s sports and invading women-only intimate spaces,” she said, adding, “To all entities receiving federal funding who continue to allow these illegal practices, we will not permit you to trample on women’s rights any longer.”
The team includes members of the Education Department’s Office for Civil Rights, Office of General Counsel, Student Privacy and Protection Office case workers and an FSA [Federal Student Aid] Enforcement investigator, and the Justice Department’s Civil Rights Division.
The team’s efforts aim to bolster President Donald Trump’s executive orders on banning biological males from women’s sports and defending women from gender ideology.
“In recent years, many educational institutions and athletic associations have allowed men to compete in women’s sports. This is demeaning, unfair, and dangerous to women and girls, and denies women and girls the equal opportunity to participate and excel in competitive sports,” the former order states, while the latter asserts that “efforts to eradicate the biological reality of sex fundamentally attack women by depriving them of their dignity, safety, and well-being.”
