President Donald Trump’s Departments of Justice and Education have created a joint task force to protect female athletes from “the pernicious effects of gender ideology in school programs and activities.”
The move is due to “the staggering volume” of Title IX complaints, the Education Department said in a Friday press release announcing the “Title IX Special Investigations Team.” Both the Education and Justice Departments have been vocal about Title IX situations in California and Maine, as well as other states around the country.
“Under the Biden administration, Title IX was weaponized contrary to its meaning to deny women their equal opportunity protections under the law,” Julie Hartman, an Education Department spokeswoman, told The Daily Wire. “Schools allowed male competitors to strip female athletes of their rightful accolades, threaten women’s safety, and subject them to the indignity of unfair competitions.”
Hartman explained that creating the team is “an unprecedented action” through which experienced investigators and attorneys will “thoroughly investigate violations and expeditiously enforce Title IX to restore women’s civil rights.”
“In America, this is the women’s rights issue of our time — and the Trump administration will fight relentlessly to protect them,” she said.
Attorney General Pam Bondi on Friday emphasized that protecting women and women’s sports was a “key priority” for the Justice Department.