LGBTQ groups are applauding the U.S. Department of Education's decision to interpret the Civil Rights Act's Title IX to protect students from discrimination on the basis of their sexual orientation or gender identity.
Education Secretary Miguel Cardona stated in a news release that the interpretation comes as the department's answer to the U.S.
Supreme Court's 2020 decision in Bostock v. Clayton County, which held that Title VII of the same act, which bars discrimination on the basis of "sex," also prohibits discrimination based on sexual orientation and gender identity. "The Supreme Court has upheld the right for LGBTQ+ people to live and work without fear of harassment, exclusion, and discrimination — and our LGBTQ+ students have the same