McMahon said the action reinforces the administration's position that girls' and women's sports should be reserved for females."We're just acknowledging that boys and men are in boys and men's sports and girls are in theirs," McMahon told OutKick.Education Secretary Linda McMahon says the department is formally rescinding Biden's 2024 Title IX rule and restoring the 2020 regulatory text.(Aaron Schwartz/Bloomberg via Getty Images)The action restores the 2020 regulatory text in the Code of Federal Regulations.
Courts had already invalidated the Biden rule, and the department announced in January 2025 that it would enforce the first Trump administration's regulations.EDUCATION SECRETARY LINDA MCMAHON RIPS CALIFORNIA TRANS ATHLETE ‘COMPROMISE,’ TELLS NEWSOM TO ‘PICK A SIDE’OutKick asked McMahon what this step accomplishes, given that her department was already enforcing those rules."Well, it just gives clarification to students, teachers, schools, parents," she said."Everyone now knows what the rule is and how everyone is going to abide by it."Asked whether schools face new obligations or deadlines, McMahon said they should return to the Trump-era rules.
She did not identify a new compliance deadline."Title IX was set up to give everyone, including women, equal opportunity to sports.And then under the Biden regulations, many of those rights had been taken away," McMahon said.
"And so now this is just returned to Title IX as it was originally intended."The Biden administration's 2024 rule expanded Title IX's sex-discrimination protections to include gender identity.Its separate proposal addressing eligibility for athletic teams was withdrawn in December 2024.U.S.
President Donald Trump, joined by women athletes, signs the "No Men in Women’s Sports" executive order in the East Room at the White House on February 5, 2025 in Washington, D.C.(Andrew Harnik/Getty Images)The Trump administration has pursued its interpretation of Title IX through investigations, ...