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The heads of Rutgers University, Princeton University and the University of Wisconsin at Madison asked Betsy DeVos in an open letter Thursday “to do everything you can” to stop the Trump administration from undermining the rights of transgender students.
According to news reports, the Department of Health and Human Services is considering defining gender as determined at birth by a person’s genitalia. While the Education Department is crafting a Title IX campus sexual misconduct regulation, The Wall Street Journal reported Thursday the latest draft won’t include a definition of gender.
But DHHS is calling on other federal agencies responsible for enforcing the federal Title IX law, including the Departments of Justice and Labor, to adopt the definition. Rutgers president Robert Barchi, Wisconsin-Madison chancellor Rebecca Blank and Princeton president Christopher L. Eisgruber said that would withdraw protections from students who face discrimination, isolation and harassment.
“Much work has been done in recent years to understand and reduce the challenges and ordeals experienced by transgender people,” the college leaders wrote. “This is no time for the country to turn its back on these valued members of our communities.”
