Senate Republicans have quizzed Education Secretary Miguel Cardona about the administration’s sought-after Title IX update, saying the proposed changes would make “schools and sports unsafe and unfair for women and girls.”
In a letter released Tuesday, the Republicans ripped the proposal to add sexual orientation and gender identity to Title IX, which bans sex discrimination in education, and efforts to target schools that bar male-born students who identify as female from girls’ sports, restrooms and locker rooms.
“Your interpretation of Title IX will undermine that law’s very purpose by making schools and sports unsafe and unfair for women and girls,” reads the July 28 letter to Mr.