Trump Administration Ends Transgender Student Protections

0:00It's April 6th. Welcome in. This is Canada News Today, where local news meets AI. I'm Cory with the story. The Education Department just dropped a big move, terminating deals with five school districts and one college that were set up to protect transgender. Students rights? We're talking Cape Hen Lopen in Delaware, five in Washington, Delaware Valley in Pennsylvania, plus La Mesa Spring Valley Sacramento City Unified Inn, California and Taf College there too. No more federal oversight on those packs. These agreements came from the Obama and Biden eras, pushing schools to follow civil rights rules under Title IX, which bars sex discrimination and got stretched to cover transgender and gay kids. Now under Trump, the department is pulling back hard, saying it won't enforce those steps anymore, shifting away from prior interpretations. This fits a pattern where the administration has hit schools for gender identity policies like lawsuit against California and Minnesota over trans. Athletes in sports and probes into

1:01other districts and colleges. Schools now face less pressure to uphold those old protections, leaving local policies to handle the heat while federal eyes turn elsewhere.