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California Gov. Jerry Brown vetoed a bill Monday that would have preserved the Obama administration’s new guidelines for sexual assault cases on university campuses, and which the Trump administration has reversed.

Education Secretary Betsy DeVos withdrew the Obama-era “Dear Colleague” policy which minimized the burden of proof required when adjudicating sexual assault cases on college campuses.

A Texas attorney has protected, then deleted his Twitter account after tweeting he would “be ok” if U.S. Education Secretary Betsy DeVos “was sexually assaulted.”

Radical feminists at the University of Southern California have claimed another illegitimate scalp by forcing the school to suspend a football player for “assaulting” a female student despite that the so-called “victim” has testified that no assault ever took place.

WASHINGTON—On Monday the Supreme Court threw out a major transgender lawsuit, sending the case back to a lower federal court in light of the Trump administration’s rescinding of an Obama policy implicated by the lawsuit.

New York Governor Andrew Cuomo said that transgender students would not lose protections in his state despite the Trump administration’s decision to repeal guidelines allowing children to use school bathrooms according to their preferred gender identity, the Hill reported.

Justice Department lawyers have asked a federal appeals court to cancel an upcoming hearing on the 13-state lawsuit against the federal government’s transgender directive, essentially buying time to figure out what to do on transgender policy in general and this lawsuit in particular.

WASHINGTON—Friday the Supreme Court announced that it is tackling liberals’ new sexual frontier, transgenderism.

Donald Trump pledged in his “Contract with the American Voter” at Gettysburg on Saturday that he would take five specific actions on “Day One” (Inauguration Day, which is Jan. 20, 2017) “to restore security and the constitutional rule of law.”

A federal judge has ruled that a preliminary injunction against the Obama directive governing transgender access to public school restrooms applies nationwide.

The U.S. Department of Education announced it launched an investigation to see if Baylor University violated Title IX, the federal civil rights law, over how they have handled campus sexual assault accusations.

The University of Maryland announced a new policy on Monday that will force all students to pay a fee for the continued enforcement of Title IX regulations pertaining to gender discrimination.

Resident assistants at the University of Massachusetts-Amherst termed references to Harambe as illegal, racist “microaggressions.” The University of Massachusetts-Lowell countered by giving away mini-Harambes to fans of their men’s soccer team.

Texas Attorney General (AG) Ken Paxton sent a letter to administrators in Texas schools informing them that the State was successful in getting President Obama’s public school transgender bathroom policy temporarily blocked. The Court ruling came down just as schools were opening for the fall.

Plaintiffs in one of the lawsuits over North Carolina’s HB 2 (the “bathroom bill”) scored a partial victory Friday when a federal district court made clear it was bound by higher-court precedent to rule for the plaintiffs. But that victory may be short-lived, as the U.S. Supreme Court will likely decide this matter in 2017.

FORT WORTH, Tex.—A federal judge on Monday ruled in favor of 13 states against President Barack Obama’s directive that public schools must allow students and adults to enter whatever bathrooms or showers they choose, a policy imposing transgenderism on the nation’s schools.

WASHINGTON, DC—Wednesday the Supreme Court temporarily blocked President Obama’s changing of federal law to grant special protections to transgender people, but did so with a signal that if Hillary Clinton becomes president, the Court will make Obama’s rewriting of current civil rights laws permanent.

Republican delegates from across the nation are accepting the work of the 112-member Platform Committee, ratifying a platform that should thrill conservatives of all stripes, starkly contrasting with Hillary Clinton and the Democratic Party.

CLEVELAND—As Republican Convention delegates gather in Cleveland this week to revise and propose the Republican Party Platform to the full party convention next week, a new poll was just circulated this afternoon to them showing that by more than a two-to-one margin Americans oppose the newest LGBT push regarding forcing businesses and schools to adopt transgender policies.

The full U.S. House of Representatives swats down a transgender measure, just hours after 43 Republicans voted for a Democratic amendment that would have forced transgender rules on all 50 states, and disqualify faith-based groups including the Salvation Army from doing business with the federal government.

Eleven states—led by Texas—filed a federal lawsuit today, arguing that the Obama administration’s redefining “sex” to include gender identity—and threatening to sue and strip funding from states and schools that refuse to go along—violates both federal law and the U.S. Constitution.

Students at a once-placid small town Vermont high school are rebelling against the administrators’ decision to impose a transgender-friendly, privacy-stealing policy on all students just to satisfy a single green-haired student who thinks she is a boy.

The president of The Cardinal Newman Society – the premier organization that promotes and defends Catholic education – says Catholic schools should implement “human sexuality policies” that serve to protect the faith, not to conform to the federal government’s social engineering motives.

National pro-family leaders are condemning President Barack Obama’s imposition of transgender ideology on America’s schoolchildren – what the American College of Pediatricians says amounts to “child abuse.”

President Barack Obama will decree Friday that 100,000 government-funded schools must create pro-transgender, mixed-sex bathrooms and locker rooms, and must deny sexual privacy, single-sex bathrooms and single-sex locker rooms to almost 55 million American kids in K-12 public schools.

Texas Attorney General Ken Paxton has fired off a letter to the president of Fort Worth Independent School District (ISD) saying he has a “strong concern” that the school district’s “Transgender Student Guidelines” violates parents rights to information. He also said the policies are motivated by a misguided view of federal law.

Oregon’s K-12 schools must allow students to use whichever single-sex bathroom or locker room they prefer, and to play on opposite sex sports teams, say new rules drafted by the state’s education department.

Illinois parents are suing the Obama administration over its insistence that the 1964 federal Title IX education rules requires schools to impose pro-transgender bathroom and locker room policies on all their students.

The president of the Traditional Values Coalition says that GOP candidate Donald Trump and others “don’t understand the full impact” of what has quickly become the new “mainstream position” of people pushing the narrative of “gender identity” on American culture.

This week a federal court sided with a transgender student who insisted that the Obama administration’s reading of federal Title IX rules would allow her to choose her own bathroom at her Virginia high school. Gavin Grimm, 16, a student

A Federal Circuit court ruled today that a local Virginia school board violated the law by not allowing a girl to use the boys’ restroom.

In an ironic twist of political correctness, the University of Illinois has now felt it necessary to warn students and faculty that its sexual harassment training might feature “triggering” words or images that might “upset” people.

Now that Florida State University has settled a federal Title IX lawsuit with a woman who claimed she was raped by then Seminoles star quarterback Jameis Winston in 2012, her attorneys can rejoice. According to FSU, the woman reportedly won $250,000 in the settlement while her lawyers will divvy up $700,000.

The University of Southern California (USC) on Tuesday dropped several “intrusive” and invasive personal questions, which asked students about their sexual activity, from a mandatory online course.

The anti-Christian Human Rights Campaign is asking the federal government to harass Christian schools that have asked for or been granted waivers that would allow them to live out their Christian faith.

Starbucks may no longer be a safe space to have a conversation with a friend, not unless you’re prepared to be called out by PC minders who might be eavesdropping nearby.