Education Secretary Linda McMahon: June is now ‘Title IX Month’

Pride Month is getting some competition from the Trump administration.

The Department of Education announced Monday that June is being recognized as “Title IX Month” in honor of the 1972 federal civil-rights law, which bans sex discrimination in education.

“June will now be dedicated to commemorating women and celebrating their struggle for, and achievement of, equal educational opportunity,” said the department in a statement. “Throughout the month, the Department will highlight actions taken to reverse the Biden Administration’s legacy of undermining Title IX and announce additional actions to protect women in line with the true purpose of Title IX.

The Biden administration approved a rule last year adding “gender identity” to Title IX, but President Trump rescinded shortly after he took office.

The department’s Office for Civil Rights kicked off the month by launching an investigation into the University of Wyoming after one of its sororities, Kappa Kappa Gamma, admitted Artemis Langford, a biological male who identifies as female.

Six Wyoming chapter sorority sisters sued the national Kappa Kappa Gamma organization over its policy allowing “women and individuals who identify as women,” but the department said that the university also has obligations under Title IX.

“A school receiving federal funding that supports, sponsors, or promotes a sorority or fraternity, must meet its obligations under Title IX to protect its students from sex-based harassment and sexual assault, regardless of the sorority or fraternity’s policy,” the department said. “A sorority that admits male students is no longer a sorority by definition and thus loses the Title IX statutory exemption for a sorority’s single-sex membership practices.”

Also under investigation is the Jefferson County Public Schools in Colorado, which was sued last year by parents over its policy allowing students to share overnight accommodations on school trips based on their gender identity.

One of the families bringing the lawsuit said they were told their 11-year-old daughter would be sharing a hotel room on a school-sponsored trip with three other girls, but the girl was ultimately assigned to share a bed with a biological boy.

“The Department is recognizing June as ‘Title IX Month’ to honor women’s hard-earned civil rights and demonstrate the Trump Administration’s unwavering commitment to restoring them to the fullest extent of the law,” said Education Secretary Linda McMahon. “Title IX provides women protections on the basis of sex in all educational activities, which include their rights to equal opportunity in sports and sex-segregated intimate spaces, including sororities and living accommodations.”

The decision to recognize June as “Title IX Month” comes as a not-so-subtle tweak at Pride Month, the annual LGBTQ celebration that has drawn pushback in recent years, in large part over its embrace of transgender ideology.