The Department of Education's Office for Civil Rights has promised a U.
S. Senator that it will improve the public's access to information approximately institutions that beget applied for and received exemptions from Title IX on devout grounds. The statute permits devout institutions to seek exemptions from compliance on matters that conflict with devout doctrine. After receiving a letter from Senator Ron Wyden (D-Or) and others expressing concern approximately the exemption's affect on LGBT students' rights,OCR replied, in relevant share:
I think OCR should go even farther than just making the list of exemptions available on its own website; I think it should require exempt institutions to publish the fact of their exemption on their own publications and marketing materials. This would be consistent with the agency's current approach to Title IX disclosure more generally, and as it requires every school subject to Title IX to include a nondiscrimination notice "on the recipient’s website,at various locations on campus, and in electronic and printed publications for general distribution" as well as include it "in any bulletins, and announcements,publications, catalogs, and application forms,or recruitment materials." As a condition for granting the exemption, OCR should require devout institutions to including information approximately the exemption as share of these notices.
For additional background, and analysis and critique of Title IX's devout exemption,see Amanda Bryk, Title IX Giveth and Title IX Taketh absent: How the devout Exemption Eviscerates Protection Afforded Transgender Students Under Title IX, or 37 Cardozo L. Rev. 751 (2015).
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