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America rolls back Title IX protections for LGBTQ+ students ’cos culture wars · PRIDE Daily

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  Speaker 3: as America's radical right-wing government continues prioritising anti-queer culture wars
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  Speaker 3: over sky-high fuel and food costs. Protections for LGBTQ plus
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  Speaker 3: students against discrimination based on sexual orientation and gender identity
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  Speaker 3: have just been scrapped with no warning. They were part
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  Speaker 3: of a 1972 civil rights law called Title IX and
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  Speaker 3: applied to schools and other education programmes that get national
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  Speaker 3: government funding. And there are two other things in the
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  Speaker 3: culture war crosshairs here.
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  Speaker 4: Second, the administration says the change is aimed at transgender
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  Speaker 4: participation in girls' and women's sports. And third, schools will
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  Speaker 4: go back to narrower definitions and different procedures for handling
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  Speaker 4: sexual harassment and assault complaints.
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  Speaker 3: Nohalani Graf from 12 News KPNX. On that last point,
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  Speaker 3: it means student victims of sexual misconduct are now less
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  Speaker 3: likely to get justice, with alleged perpetrators better protected. This
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  Speaker 3: says New York state prosecutors reopen an investigation into claims
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  Speaker 3: of a gang rape at Cornell University in 2024. The
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  Speaker 3: alleged victim's now suing, says she wasn't adequately protected, while
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  Speaker 3: the seven students involved weren't properly punished. So if that
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  Speaker 3: was the case a couple of years ago, and now
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  Speaker 3: the law's being undermined, what hope for future victims?
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  Speaker 4: Supporters say this restores Title IX's original focus. Civil rights
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  Speaker 4: and sexual assault advocates say it removes important protections. Bottom line,
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  Speaker 4: the rules for how schools handle sex discrimination, athletics and
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  Speaker 4: sexual misconduct are changing.
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  Speaker 3: The Title IX rules were strengthened under former President Joe
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  Speaker 3: Biden and it's his changes being rolled back. You can
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