So, my yearly Title IX training is telling me that I need to report any student who tells me that they are pregnant to our Title IX office so that "outreach efforts can be undertaken to assist the student". I'm even supposed to do it if I suspect someone is pregnant. AND I'm supposed to tell them that I can't guarantee them confidentiality when I report them. No fucking way am I going to report the pregnancy of a student to a government organization in this current political climate. Does anyone else have to do this shit? And does anyone else find this to be creepy and invasive? Maybe this was well intentioned at one point, but it's way out of touch today.

Update: I wanted to add a few things since the same questions are getting asked over and over again.

1. My Uni is in a very blue state, where the right to an abortion is in no doubt. I will not indicate my state, given my statement above. Yes, I'm sure you could figure it out if you really wanted to.

2. This does appear to be a Biden era change to Title IX

3. The general conclusion seems to be that the updates to Title IX explicitly require that pregnant students are given information by the mandated reporter about accommodations for pregnancy and beyond. It does not explicitly require reporting a pregnant student directly to the university.

4. The variability you are seeing in the comments is likely due to 1) some institutions not implementing the new rules yet and 2) of those that have, some institutions are taking an aggressive "cover our assess" approach and requiring the mandated reporter to file a report with the title IX office in order to prevent being held liable for violating title IX. This seems to be less common, but not uncommon.

5. In my opinion, I get just not reporting it, but I think we all need to actively push back against this at institutions where it is being implemented. This is an overreach that could be used for very bad things in the wrong hands.