Universities in the United States return to the scope of the norms on sexual aggression created under the first term of President Donald Trump. The rules establish how complaints of undue behavior will be investigated and how to solve them in case where students present different stories.
The schools and universities that respond to complaints of undue sexual behavior must return to the policies created during the first mandate of President Donald Trump, with requirements for live audiences and more protections for accused students, according to a new guide issued on Friday by the Department of Education.
In a memorandum to educational institutions throughout the nation, the agency clarified that title IX, a 1972 law that prohibits sex -based discrimination, will apply in accordance with a set of rules created by former Secretary of Education Betsy Devos .
The rules govern how complaints of undue behavior and how to solve cases where students present different stories.
The universities have already been returning to the Rules of Devos of 2020 in recent weeks since a federal judge in Kentucky annulled the rules of Title IX of the Biden government. The Court's decision effectively ordered a return to the previous rules of the Trump government.
A statement from the Department of Education described the Biden rules as a “flagrant grievance towards women and girls.”
“Under the Trump government, the Department of Education will defend equal opportunities for all Americans, including women and girls, protecting their right to safe and separated facilities and activities in schools, colleges and universities,” said the interim undersecretary For civil rights, Craig Trainor.
The Biden government sought to review the rules and expand title IX to protect LGBTQ+students. Expanded the type of behavior that is considered sexual harassment, a reversal of the Devos' policy, which used a narrower definition.
But a federal judge in Kentucky annulled the Biden rule on January 9, saying that it was a presidential overreach and violated the constitutional rights of free expression by telling schools to honor students' favorite pronouns. The federal district judge Danny C. Reeves said there was nothing in title IX that suggested that he had to cover more than he covered when Congress created it.
Even before the decision, the Biden rule had been arrested in half of the states amid legal challenges of Republicans.
The full text of the Law of Title IX has only 37 words, but the federal government has added rules over the years that explain how it is interpreted. The Devos policy adds 500 pages detailing how schools must address complaints and how the Department of Education ensures that schools comply.
The Trump government has already taken a hard turn in its application of title IX. On Tuesday, the Department of Education said it opened an investigation in the Denver schools after the district turned a bathroom of girls into a bathroom for all genres while leaving another exclusive bath for boys.
The new memorandum says that even the investigations that began when the Biden rules were in effect “must be reorient immediately to fully comply with the requirements of the 2020 title IX rule.”
The Rules of Devos were well received by the activists who said that universities had been too fast to punish students accused of undue sexual behavior without a fair judgment. But the rules were convicted of rights groups of the victims who said they retraumatized the victims and deterred many of denouncing aggressions.
Among the most controversial changes was a rule that required universities to celebrate live audiences where accused students could interrogate their accusers through an advisor. The Biden rule eliminated the requirement and caused the live hearings to be optional, although some courts had previously defended the right of a student accused of the counter -interrogation.
More widely, the 2020 policy reduced the definition of sexual harassment and the scope of the cases that schools must address. He also reduced the responsibility of universities, holding them only if they acted with “deliberate indifference.”
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