Under the new rules at Cuny’s Graduate Center, employees are no longer required to provide pregnant students with the contact info for the coordinator tasked with ensuring that the school abides by Title IX, a 1972 law that prohibits sex discrimination in the thousands of educational programs that receive funding from the US government.
Cuny graduate school rolls back protections for pregnant students Move comes amid Trump’s overturn of Title IX guidance, limiting schools’ liability in sexual misconduct cases.
Instead, the administration’s Department of Education will revert to a set of 2020 regulations, which were issued under the first Trump administration and which anti-sexual assault advocates heavily criticized for curtailing the scope of Title IX and weakening protections for people who come forward with sexual misconduct allegations.
A graduate school at the City University of New York (Cuny), a university with 25 colleges spread across New York City, has rolled back rules meant to protect the rights of pregnant students, the school said on Tuesday in an email obtained by the Guardian.
“The fact that the Trump administration is rolling back these protections just shows that they don’t actually care about pregnant people’s lives, even though they claim to be pro-life,” said Emma Grasso Levine, senior manager of Title IX policy and programs at the organization Advocates for Youth.
