Feds using strategy of sexual offenders – DARVO
A defensive strategy called DARVO that is frequently used by accused sexual offenders now is often used by federal immigration agents accused of violence.
Paperback coming of Title IX history
The New Press will release a trade paperback version of 37 Words: Title IX and Fifty Years of Fighting Sex Discrimination.
Fair Play for Women proposed
Three U.S. Congresswomen and a senator proposed the Fair Play for Women Act to address ongoing inequities in school athletics 50 years after Title IX outlawed such discrimination. The legislation would make a number of significant changes. In a nutshell:…
Title IX showdown on abortion
A recent Supreme Court ruling clashed with existing laws, producing a Title IX showdown on abortion of sorts in schools, colleges, and universities. The U.S. Department of Education reminded educational institutions that Title IX protects students, faculty, and staff against…
Where are “protectors” of women’s sports now?
The self-designated "protectors" of women's sports who loudly oppose allowing a few transgender girls and women to compete remain oddly silent about practices that unfairly give hundreds of women's playing slots to cisgender men year after year after year. An…
Potential big deal for Title IX lawsuits
A little-noticed legal ruling this week could be a big deal for Title IX lawsuits going forward. If I'm reading this right, colleges and universities could be held accountable not only for cases in which they were deliberately indifferent to…
Abortion controversy altered Title IX history
The leaked draft Supreme Court decision that could cancel abortion rights dominated headlines this week, but earlier abortion controversy altered Title IX history in ways that are worth remembering. Read more about this in my article in The Washington Post Made by History…
Title IX to cover queer, transgender people
Revisions to Title IX's regulations that are expected to be proposed by the White House in April will affirm explicitly for the first time that Title IX's protections cover queer and transgender people. The regulations' prohibition of sex discrimination in…
Congress mandates surveys on sexual violence
Once again the federal Education Department is stepping in to do something that all colleges should have done but many haven't -- surveys about sexual violence on campus. Hooray for the feds. Under a provision tucked into a 3,000-page Congressional…
Intersectional identities influence Title IX
Title IX has helped millions of people -- especially girls and women -- deal with sex discrimination in education. You know who it hasn't helped as much? Girls and women of color or who are ethnic minorities, disabled, immigrants, old,…