The Hill: Trump’s Energy Department proposes dismantling parts of Title IX allowing girls on boys’ teams

June 14. 2025

Managing Senior Attorney Maha Ibrahim is featured in an article in The Hill about the Trump administration’s sneaky attempt to gut gender-related civil rights protections for students by issuing a rare Direct Federal Ruling through the Dept. of Energy rather than the Dept. of Education:

“Generally, things have followed kind of a principle of logic — you stick to the things you’re experts in, you regulate the things that you are tasked with regulating,” said Maha Ibrahim, program managing attorney for Equal Rights Advocates, a nonprofit gender justice and women’s rights organization.