Biden abandoning plans to protect trans athletes, cancel student loans

As part of an administration-wide plan to drop pending regulations to prevent President-elect Donald Trump from retooling them to achieve his own aims, current President Joe Biden is abandoning his efforts to provide some protections for transgender student-athletes, according to ESPN. 

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The Education Department said it was withdrawing the proposal because of ongoing litigation over how Title IX—the law that aims to stop sex discrimination—should handle cases involving gender identity. The department wrote, “We do not intend for a final rule to be issued.” Biden’s rule on transgender sports was proposed in 2023; however, it was delayed multiple times. It was supposed to be a follow-up to his broader rule that extended civil-rights protections to LGBTQ+ students under Title IX.

Biden is also stopping plans to cancel student loans for more than 38 million Americans. The Education Department has limited time and resources, and U.S. Education Secretary Miguel Cardona would rather dedicate them to helping at-risk borrowers repay their loans, USA Today noted. Biden’s latest student loan forgiveness proposals could have dissolved debts for tens of millions of Americans and cleared new paths to relief for borrowers in dire financial straits; more than 4 million borrowers in repayment for 20 years or more would have been eligible to have their debt canceled in full. 

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Biden administration officials worried that if the proposed regulations were left in their current state, Trump’s administration could rewrite them and advance its own agenda—which is likely to be unfavorable to LGBTQ+ students and student borrowers—more quickly.

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