Arguments Against Title IX

Recently in my life I started hearing about the phrase ‘Title IX’ and after getting this assignment to write about a law, I knew my topic right away. This topic was brought up last year as I overheard male players from the basketball team having a conversation about the idea of cutting the girls’ basketball team so they could get more scholarship money. One of the players had said that his coach had told them that they would get taken down instantly because of ‘Title IX’. “Title IX of the Educational Amendments of 1972 bans sex discrimination in schools receiving Federal Funds, whether it is in academics or athletics. The majority of Title IX cases are files against K-12 schools and they are mostly involved on the athletic side.” (www.education.com/definitions/title-ix/) Basically it keeps athletic teams available equally to both men and women. Title IX has a few policies that high schools and colleges have to meet to ensure fairness for male and female athletes and this is called the HEW’s three prong test. The test is the following:
• “All such assistance should be available on a substantially proportional basis to the number of male and female participants in the institution’s athletic program.”
• “Male and female athletes should receive equal treatment, benefits, and opportunities
There are also people who think that Title IX actually hurts the people that are covered by it. The biggest sport that has been hurt by this is Gymnastics at the collegiate level. Many big colleges in the U.S. have actually cut the gymnastic programs at the college. According to Sherman Cain from the Journal Inquirer, there were over 250 programs for colleges, and now there are fewer than a hundred. Because of all the events held in gymnastics, schools couldn’t provide equal rights for men and women because of the small amount of participants compared to other