Earlier today, Ed wrote about the Biden administration’s decision to pull back on student loan forgiveness. But that’s not the only thing getting the axe. Biden’s Department of Education is also cutting off planned regulations regarding trans athletes.
The regulations were, at one time, among the administration’s top education policy priorities, and the decision to pull down the proposed regulations was a tacit acknowledgment that they would go nowhere under the administration of incoming President-elect Donald J. Trump…
The proposed rule around transgender athletes was nuanced. It would have created some protections, prohibiting outright bans. But it also would have allowed schools to exclude some categories of students from playing sports on teams that matched their gender identities.
While the Biden administration had been hesitant to take a firm…
