Restore a biological-sex interpretation of Title IX

Project 2025 recommends restoring the 2020 Title IX rule and a biological-sex interpretation. After a federal court vacated the 2024 rule nationwide, the Education Department announced enforcement based on the 2020 rule.

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Restore the Trump Administration's Title IX regulation, with the additional insistence that sex is properly understood as a fixed biological fact.

Chapter: 11 · Department of Education
Author: Lindsey M. Burke
Department: U.S. Department of Education
Printed page: 333–334
PDF page: 365–366
Preview published: August 16, 2026

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Mandate for Leadership: The Conservative PromiseThe Heritage Foundation · Project 2025 Text · p. 333–334