Although the Secretary of Education did not announce any major policy changes in her speech, she did confirm to CBS News' Jan Crawford that it is her "intention" to rescind the college campus sexual assault directives put in place during the Obama administration.
"Many believe President Obama's directive is an assault on the religious liberty of every American".
It faulted in part policies governing the investigations and said investigators were not always required to collect clothing used during or after an assault and did not always have clear, mandatory directives about what to do at a crime scene.
It was suffused with the same sense of a party under assault by Western liberal thinking that permeated a secret directive issued in 2013, known as Document Number Nine.
In a directive to his commanders, General Begert ordered new sexual-assault awareness training for all airmen, written legal reviews of all sexual assault investigations, and more responsive victims' advocates, who are appointed immediately after an accusation is made.
Meanwhile, Russians and Americans trade attacks on each other's bases and aircraft carriers and initiate at least a dozen directives to prepare for an all-out nuclear assault.
We should be frantic and anxious about sexual assault and crime against women and girls but not because of a directive that allows people to use the bathroom.
One widely-cited 2010 study (before the Obama-era directive) found that an estimated 2 to 10percentt of sexual assault allegations reported to a university police department were false.
But DeVos said the directive caused school administrators to become overzealous in their pursuit of sexual assault claims and to unfairly punish students accused of rape.
She met with critics of the directive, including men's rights groups, as well as survivors of sexual assault and school administrators in July.
Transgender people, whose rights have already been under especially brutal assault everywhere from high schools to the U.S. military because of Trump administration directives, now face the threat of having their very humanity denied by the law.
