On July21, 2026, the House Education and Workforce Committee advanced a proposal to define “sex” as biological sex under Title IX. The Republican-led Title IX Clarification Act of 2026 seeks to codify a recent U.S. Supreme Court ruling in West Virginia v. B.P.J.
Those concerned with the marginalization of transgender students fear that the proposed legislation would narrow the scope of existing civil rights law by writing transgender students out of Title IX’s protections.
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