In its recent announcement, the Department says it will highlight actions throughout the month to celebrate women and "their struggle for, and achievement of, equal educational opportunity."
It will also be taking action to "reverse the Biden administration's legacy of undermining Title IX and announce additional actions to protect women in line with the true purpose of Title IX."
Penny Nance, president and CEO of Concerned Women for America, says it is "incredible" that President Trump and his Department of Education secretary had the forethought to consider the importance of June in the history of women's sports.
"At this point in our culture, the ability for women to have their own sports teams is being threatened by leftist transgender policy," Nance notes.
She says few people know that the measure was passed into law on June 23, 1972 to protect women in sports and in education generally. It was a piece of legislation that the late Patsy Mink, a Democratic congresswoman from Hawaii, fought for, but it has been undermined in recent years by transgender ideology.
At a high school in New York's South Colonie Central School District, for example, a male athlete is allowed to identify as a girl in the bathrooms and locker rooms, but as a boy in sports.
The Defense of Freedom Institute (DFI) has filed a federal civil rights complaint against the district.
"This student is permitted by the school to identify as female during the day and enter the women's locker room, and then he goes to track and field practice where he's allowed to identify as a boy," details DFI's Angela Morabito.
Her organization has seen other "kind of similar cases," but this is the first she has seen where a person actually changes identification during the day.
These female students do not want to have to change clothes while a male student is watching them. As a grown woman, Morabito says, "I wouldn't want that either. That just sounds awful."
But she points out it is also a violation of Title IX, which entitles all students to sex-segregated spaces for the protection of everyone.
In this case, the school's "solution" was to tell the girls they can either use a separate restroom that is far away from their locker room, or they could use the locker room's stalls; both options would make the girls late for practice, where they would face penalties.
"These female student athletes shouldn't be penalized in any way because they don't want to change clothes in front of a male student," Morabito submits. "They have a right to a sex-separate space, and the fact that this district doesn't recognize this is a problem."
That is why her organization filed the complaint with the federal Department of Education's Office for Civil Rights, which is already investigating the University of Wyoming and Jefferson County Public Schools in Colorado for allowing males to join and live in female-only intimate and communal spaces.
DFI has not heard back from the federal department yet, but Morabito understands that it will take time.
President Trump has issued no proclamation recognizing June as "Pride Month." He did, however, sign an executive order, "Keeping Men out of Women's Sports," shortly after taking office.
