Biden Department of Education Met With Far-Left Groups While Discussing Pro-Trans Title IX Rewrite
- April 3, 2025
Tyler O’Neil, Daily Signal
The Department of Education’s Office for Civil Rights under President Joe Biden held multiple stakeholder meetings with leftist groups—including the Human Rights Campaign—while attempting to finalize its pro-transgender Title IX rules, new documents show.
Between April 2023, when the civil rights office released its first draft of rules, and April 2024, when it released the rules that would be finalized in August, the office convened quarterly meetings with leaders of left-leaning groups that support gender ideology, according to documents obtained by Protect the Public’s Trust and exclusively given to The Daily Signal. The administration faced heavy pushback and delayed the rules.
While the department scrapped the rules on Jan. 31 under President Donald Trump, the meetings shed light on which organizations influenced the process.
“It’s not surprising that the Biden Department of Education’s Title IX re-write was so controversial that even they had to walk back parts of it when considering the outside special interests they looked to for advice,” Michael Chamberlain, director of the nonprofit Protect the Public’s Trust, told The Daily Signal in a statement Thursday. “Nor is it surprising considering the concierge-level service the department gave to teachers unions while it completely botched an effort to set up a parent engagement effort.”
“Rather, it seems par for the course for an administration that outsourced policy to powerful allied special interests at agencies such as State, Justice, EPA, Interior, and any number of others that made the rules that governed the lives of the American public,” Chamberlain added.
Protect the Public’s Trust obtained documents in 2023 showing that teachers unions—which also lean left—enjoyed immense access to the Department of Education even while the department scrapped its effort to engage with parents.