Posted on 01/23/2019 5:46:21 AM PST by reaganaut1
When Congress wrote the 1972 amendments to the Education Act, it meant to prevent colleges and universities that received federal money from discriminating against students based on sex. Title IX states that schools lose eligibility for federal money if they discriminate against either men or women.
Over the years, federal courts have expanded and contorted the meaning of Title IX. By late 2018, it means, according to the Fourth Circuit Court of Appeals, that a college or university violates Title IX unless it goes so far as to shut down an off-campus social media platform that it does not control because some people (who might or might not be students) are using it to communicate nasty messages about a feminist group.
In short, Title IX now requires schools to mount a frontal assault on the First Amendment if some students complain that they’re subject to “discrimination” because people are saying things they dislike.
The case in question is Feminist Majority Foundation v. University of Mary Washington (UMW). It began in 2014 when UMW’s student senate voted in favor of allowing male-only fraternities. Members of Feminists United (FU) at the school argued against that decision in a subsequent campus meeting and continued to do so on Yik Yak, a now-defunct social media app. Yik Yak allowed its users to post anonymous messages (“yaks”) within a limited geographical range and some of them expressed strong, offensive, criticism of FU.
Matters escalated a few days later when members of the UMW men’s rugby team were captured on video in a chant that glorified violence against women. That video was given to the UMW administration. Members of FU sought and obtained a meeting with the school’s president, Richard Hurley.
(Excerpt) Read more at jamesgmartin.center ...
If Congress obeyed the 10th Amendment and gave no money to colleges the Left wing nitwits wouldn’t be running out of control over a statute that shouldn’t exist in the first place.
Repeating rap lyrics, were they?
No. There is blatant discrimination against males. “Title 9” is a farce. And stop naming laws after a chapter in a book!
By the statute, funds should be denied to any colleges who allow men to compete in women’s sports.
... sure, but I’m in the there’s no delegated power given Congress to give the funds in the first place. No funds, no federal backing of student loans ... nothing to strong arm anyone over.
Nor is there a delegated power given Congress to require private persons or privately owned entities to respect federal civil rights as far as that goes.
Title IX is communistic redistribution.
Another legacy from the RINO Nixon era.
Disclaimer: Opinions posted on Free Republic are those of the individual posters and do not necessarily represent the opinion of Free Republic or its management. All materials posted herein are protected by copyright law and the exemption for fair use of copyrighted works.