President Donald Trump signed an executive order last week, rolling back Biden-era guidance that offered Title IX protection based on gender identity by requiring federal agencies to implement policies based on the biologically-defined understanding of the male and female sexes.
Conservatives lauded the change as a “massive win for America,” with some declaring the “radical woke gender ideology” of the previous four years to be dead.
Among them is Alliance Defending Freedom president, CEO and general counsel Kristen Waggoner, whose group represents parents, educators and other school officials in cases involving free speech, parental rights and more.
“I think that the Biden administration promoted an Orwellian view that men can become women, and it has eroded and nearly gutted the rights of women, and we are now seeing the Trump administration help us turn the corner on that and say that sex is neither chosen nor is changeable, and many states want to go in that direction because it’s …