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Kansas Dismisses Federal Lawsuit Over Title IX Guidance

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The state of Kansas has withdrawn a suit against the federal government over changes to Title IX that extended protections to cover gender identity. President Donald Trump recently revoked the Obama-era guidance sent out last year.

Kansas Attorney General Derek Schmidt announced that the state voluntarily dismissed the lawsuit last week. Kansas and nine other states had filed the suit in 2016 to challenge what Schmidt called “unlawful efforts” to rewrite Title IX, the 1972 federal law that bans discrimination in public schools on the basis of sex.

Last year President Obama sent out a guidance directing public schools to allow transgender students to use the bathrooms that correspond to their gender identity. Schools would have lost federal funding if they didn’t comply.

Related: Derby Schools Reverses Policy On Bathroom Access For Transgender Students

The Trump administration rescinded the guidance last month. Schmidt says the original lawsuit, which had been pending in federal district court in Nebraska, was no longer necessary.

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Nadya Faulx is KMUW's Digital News Editor and Reporter, which means she splits her time between working on-air and working online, managing news on KMUW.org, Twitter, Facebook and Instagram. She joined KMUW in 2015 after working for a newspaper in western North Dakota. Before that she was a diversity intern at NPR in Washington, D.C.