On Title IX’s bench: the ACLU

Imagine you’re a 15-year-old girl and something’s happening at school that you think is unfair to girls or LGBTQ students. School administrators and even school district officials ignore your complaints or tell you to go away. Who you gonna call? If you’ve never heard of the various legal groups that specialize in helping women or LGBTQ people, you’ve probably heard of the ACLU — the American Civil Liberties Union. Maybe the boys got a new baseball field while girls’ softball is stuck on a rutted, run-down community diamond. Or a teacher keeps touching students in creepy ways. Or boys get […]

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Title IX advocates say Black Lives Matter

A professional association of Title IX administrators recently proclaimed solidarity with the Black Lives Matter movement. Meanwhile, a federal lawsuit in Minnesota claims that protecting transgender students’ rights amounts to discrimination against girls under Title IX. The intersections between discrimination based on sex, race, gender, sexual orientation, religion, ethnicity, age, disability, etc. — and how these intersections are used to try to achieve political goals — have always been part of Title IX history. Perhaps never more so than today. The statement released by the Association of Title IX Administrators (ATIXA) generated a standing ovation when first read at its […]

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