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You have covered in depth the Biden administration's effort to update the rules around Title IX to better protect LGBTQ students from discrimination in school.

This is a monumental task given everything that's going on in the landscape right now.

So I wanted to just open up the conversation by asking you to summarize kind of neatly what the

administration has done and what the status of that rulemaking is today.

Yeah. So, I mean, this Title IX rule, like, let's understand, first of all, this is something that basically is like eight years in the making.

This is something that really started back in the Obama administration

and came out of when the EEOC back during the Obama administration was issuing a series of

that were finding that Title VII, when it references sex

discrimination, that sex discrimination includes gender identity discrimination and sexual

orientation discrimination. Now, at the time when that happened, even then, it wasn't that big of a deal.

It was a huge deal for protections, but it wasn't that controversial. When the EEOC made the decision

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