But the new Trump guidance caused the court also to say that the students' Title IX claim was unlikely to succeed.
The students' Title IX Complaint details how Yale has failed again and again and again to respond to cases of sexual harassment effectively.
An Ohio federal district court dismissed a Miami University student's Title IX claim in May after the school expelled him for sexual assault. .
Along with the unemployed, or the night-shift worker (who, in the story "Talking About My Wife," declares, "That was a thing about women, they were all middle class"), there are portraits of a young university student (the title story); a writer ("Bangs & a Full Moon"); and a teacher and artist ("Ingrained").
The National Women's Law Center this week filed a complaint on behalf of 18-year-old Mikelia Seals, alleging that the district's treatment of the student violated Title IX, a federal law that requires gender equity in schools.
A federal court dismissed a student's Title IX and breach of contract claims against Saint Joseph's University in Pennsylvania last year, but allowed allegations of defamation and violation of a state consumer protection law to proceed.
Two graduate students filed Title IX complaints arguing that the essay had a "chilling effect" on students' ability to report sexual misconduct.
One of the report's more disturbing findings showed that teachers' aides rather than qualified teachers were teaching many students in Title I schools.
Conservatives have already opposed the inclusion of transgender students under Title IX.
On Wednesday, February 23, the U.S. Department of Education and U.S. Department of Justice rescinded the guidance issued by the Obama administration on accommodating transgender and gender nonconforming students under Title IX.
And although her past suggests she will oppose the Obama administration's inclusion of transgender students in Title IX, she has said little about her approach.
