Title IX Month

MacDonald: Celebrate Title IX Month!

Pride Month is a sex-cultural phenomenon, a social construct that, in some dystopian future, would be subverted and changed. Not the name. It’d still be pride month, but instead of being proud to share your obsession with your own sexuality or the virtue signal of forcing others to celebrate someone else’s, it’d be some other … Read more

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Biden Admin Withdraws Title IX Gender Bending Rule Change

Yesterday (12/20/24), Biden’s Department of Education withdrew a rule change to Title IX regarding allowing students to play school sports based on gender instead of sex. The intent of the Athletics NPRM was to “propose a regulatory standard under Title IX that would govern a recipient’s adoption or application of sex-related criteria that would limit … Read more

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Title IX: 37 Words in 1972; Now Over 400 Scary Pages Long

A flare-up in the culture war has become an election issue and an August 16 ruling by the US Supreme Court (SCOTUS) guarantees it will not go away. Title IX is a federal civil rights law protecting those who attend a school that receives federal funds against discrimination on the basis of sex. The intention … Read more

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Title IX, College Sports, and Joe Biden

“No person in the United States shall, on the basis of sex, be excluded from participation in, be denied the benefits of, or be subjected to discrimination under any education program or activity receiving Federal financial assistance.” – Title IX of the Educational Amendments Act of 1972.

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Dartmouth is Planning to Violate Title VII and Title IX

Dartmouth continues to shower New Hampshire in glory. They’ve decided that women and minorities are underrepresented in STEM fields, and the solution is one hundred million in scholarships which, at least for now, are not available to white men.

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Title IX Turns 50…and Dies

Title IX was signed into law in 1972 as part of the Education Amendment of 1972. It prohibits sex-based discrimination in any school or other education program that receives funding from the federal government.

Where So-Called “Trans Rights” May Violate Title IX

New Hampshire is on the verge of denying rights to people under the pretense of providing them. The Trans bill sailed through the House under the cover of giving something to a class of persons what they already had under existing law. Rights they’ve been exercising all along. In the process, the Legislature has handed … Read more

About that Title IX Thing…

Mario Loyola, writing at National Review, evaluates the Orwellian stylings of the Obama Transgender Bathroom ‘Dear Colleague Letter,’ but I thought this was the money quote. Naturally, the last thing anyone in Congress (or anywhere) thought in 1972 was that for purposes of federal law, students would get to decide what gender they feel like on … Read more

From: Joan Salvin [Director, University Sexual Harassment Prevention Office; Title IX Coordinator; Special Assistant to the Provost]

Ken White at Popehat has published a leaked email on Title IX investigations at Northwest University.  Here is an excerpt of that email sent to all–I guess the term is suitable persons–by Joan Salvin [Director, University Sexual Harassment Prevention Office; Title IX Coordinator; Special Assistant to the Provost] As you know, we have a strict policy … Read more