This Thursday, new protections from discrimination for transgender and LGBTQ+ students at schools and colleges across the country will take effect – in the states where judges haven’t temporarily blocked enforcement. Courts have blocked federal protections in 21 states, and in hundreds of individual schools across the nation.
The tangle of incomplete protections results from Republican-led lawsuits in states across the country, against the Biden administration’s Title IX regulation. The regulation was issued in April, to be in place ahead of the 2024-2025 school year.
In many school districts, the law will be enforced in some schools, but not others.
“There aren’t many other parallels I can give you of two different sets of rules applying in the very same place, one school on one side of the street operating from a different playbook from a school on the other side of the street,” Brett Sokolow, chair of the Association of…