Weaver tells South Carolina schools to ignore Biden’s revised Title IX rules for LBGTQ+ students

COLUMBIA, S.C. (WCBD)- South Carolina’s top education official told schools on Tuesday to ignore a revised set of Title IX rules recently issued by the Biden administration that extends the civil rights law’s protections to transgender students. Last week, the Education Department unveiled changes to Title IX — a 1972 law that prohibits sex-based discrimination in education programs that are federally funded. Among the new set of rules — set to take effect on August 1 — is a provision …