Trump's Title IX repeal restores common sense to higher education
- Biden-era Title IX gone, men told to exit women's sports locker rooms — bio-sex-only teams now official government policy.
- Poll claims 79% of Americans concur with Trump's 'biological sex' rule — a shocker, given 100% of reality concurs too.
- Gainful employment rule axed, replaced by 'earnings premium' — college price tags now judged on whether grads can actually pay them off.
- PARITY Act targets the 90/10 rule — which, surprisingly, didn't protect universities peddling underwater basket-weaving degrees.
- Congress told to finish job: bury 90/10 rule six feet under next to all intellectual rigor.
Brief Summary
In a move that didn't exactly require a supermajority of brilliance, President Trump's Department of Education yanked the Biden-era Title IX rewrite, restoring the law to its ancient, pre-awakened state where women's sports actually feature women. The administration also binned the gainful employment rule, which only applied to career colleges while real universities were handing out worthless degrees with impunity — now everyone gets to prove their sheepskins are worth more than the paper they're printed on.
Needless to say, polls show 79% of Americans thinking athletes should compete by biological sex, a finding that would be shocking if common sense weren't still priced at $2.99. The PARITY Act is coming for the 90/10 rule next, which singled out for-profit schools while letting non-profits run 40% of their programs with default-grade outcomes. That'd end the patchwork of double standards faster than a student debt spiral.
Why This Matters
Look, unless you're a college administrator with a quota to hit, this is a rare win for anyone who's ever paid a tuition bill or watched a track meet without a pause for a gender studies seminar. Repealing Title IX's woke rewrite means less Orwellian speech policing and more 'run, jump, compete' on campuses — that's a tangible win for women athletes and free-speech skeptics alike.
But the deeper kicker is the accountability shift. If the 90/10 rule gets applied across all institutions — not just for-profits — you'll see massive shakeups in how degrees are priced and how programs are justified. That's not just politics; that's knowing whether your kid's art history degree is collateral for a mortgage or just a very expensive poster. It's common sense, folks — too bad it required federal intervention to unearth it.