Amid a flurry of civil rights and Title IX investigations, the Trump administration has reopened K-12 schools and universities, signaling a complete 180-degree shift in the interpretation of the mandates.

The Trump administration is fighting schools over transgender athletes, bans on Native American mascots and Chicago’s “Black Students Success Plans.”

The switch from the previous administration has caused whiplash for schools, with advocates warning students some complaints may not be worth pursuing.

“The Trump Administration has created dumpsters for so-called civil rights violations that are distractingly unresponsive to actual acts of violence, harassment, discrimination and abuse in our nation’s educational institutions,” says Shaun Harper, a professor of education, public policy and business at the University of Southern California.

“It is painfully apparent that destructive politicized attacks on DEI are far more important to them than are efforts to ensure the actual civil rights of American students, families and educators,” he added.

The most drastic change has been in the handling of cases involving transgender athletes.

The Biden administration notably moved to add protections for LGBTQ individuals to Title IX, a civil rights law that protects students against sex-based discrimination.

Former President Biden also proposed protections for transgender students, such as forbidding overarching bans on transgender women in girls' sports, but withdrew the proposal before President Trump took office, so the new president could not take the provision and alter it.

Under the Trump administration, dozens of schools have come under fire with alleged Title IX violations over transgender athletes.

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