The Wake County Board of Education is considering an anti-discrimination policy proposal that would reverse the school board's changes last summer to federal Title IX implementation.
The board voted Tuesday night without objection to adopt the changes on first reading, and they'll hold a final vote at a later meeting.
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The school board adopted Biden administration-ordered changes last summer, after the administration revised its rules for implementing the 1972 law on sex discrimination.
The Trump administration moved to rescind those Biden-era changes, and lawsuits eventually invalidated them, prompting the school board to review and update its policies.
The reversion would remove language from the policies that included more details about what constituted sexual harassment and would remove references to "quid pro quo" harassment.
Opponents to the Biden-era changes often cited concerns that they would protect transgender girl students at the expense of cisgender girls who may not want to share spaces with transgender girls. Proponents noted that the Biden changes didn't concern transgender students' participation in athletics and argued that transgender girls may not be comfortable sharing spaces with cisgender boys, instead.
Wake's proposed still protect students from discrimination based on their gender identity, something the school board moved to do in 2021 in response to other federal court decisions. Attorneys also continue to advise the school board that a federal court case, Grimm v. Gloucester County School Board, requires schools to allow transgender students to use the restroom that conforms with their gender identity.