The U.S. Department of Education’s Office for Civil Rights rescinded parts of resolution agreements tied to Title IX investigations that were designed to protect LGBTQ+ students, according to a Monday announcement. The administration said prior agreements, reached under Obama and Biden, misinterpreted Title IX by treating it as covering “gender identity” rather than sex discrimination, and it characterized those agreements as lacking a legal foundation. The rescinded agreements addressed issues such as transgender students’ bathroom access and preferred pronoun usage. The department said it is not rolling back Title IX’s core protections, stating that all students are protected from sex-based discrimination under the law. It also said five school districts and one college had portions of agreements partially rescinded on Monday, including obligations such as consulting support on gender-identity-related topics. School districts and colleges will now need to reassess compliance plans that were structured around those OCR settlement terms, even as the broader Title IX dispute continues to generate litigation and policy challenges across the sector.