Throughout the course of American history
there has been a constant struggle to set right the inequities of society.
Many times, however, these efforts go awry. People having political
agendas use these efforts not to better society, but to achieve their
end purpose. Title IX is one such program. Title IX has been hijacked
by militant feminists with no purpose other than to destroy boys and
men and all they excel at, most notably sports.
In the 1960’s a cultural revolution overtook America. Civil
rights were brought to the forefront of the American consciousness.
Black people were struggling to get an equal voice in government and
to be treated equally throughout the United States.
Women were also looking for equity. There undeniably existed a second
class status for women in political clout, workplace rules, and college
admissions. Towards the end of the decade, women had made great strides.
In fact, according to Jessica Gavora, “In 1972, American feminism
was arguably reaching its apex. . . .Congress responded by passing the
Equal Rights Act and, later that same year, Title IX. The sentiment
that most members of Congress sought to express in Title IX was equality
under the law—nothing more and nothing less. Discrimination against
women in admissions to universities and graduate schools was real in
many areas and had been documented in congressional hearings. It would
no longer be permitted.” (p. 3)
The text of Title IX is “No person in the United States shall,
on the basis of sex, be excluded from participation in, be denied benefits
of, or be subjected to discrimination under any education program or
activity receiving Federal financial assistance.” Thirty-seven
simply stated words that have been so misinterpreted by the Department
of Education many colleges and universities are forced to eliminate
male sports.
Title IX has been used to such an extreme that a six year old boy,
Jonathan Prevette of Lexington, North Carolina, was suspended from school
for sexual harassment when a six year old girl asked him to kiss her.
Jonathan complied by kissing her on the cheek. The girl never complained,
but school officials took action because “Jonathan’s action
’had the potential of becoming a problem under the district’s
sexual harassment policy’—a policy that Title IX requires
every school to have, including elementary schools.” (Gavora,
2002, pp. 14-15)
The agenda of militant feminist organizations like N. O. W. is not
equity between the sexes, but a total destruction of the male role in
society. Title IX, aided by Presidents Carter and Clinton, ultra-liberal
courts in the Northeast and California and the Congress of the United
States, has been their tool of choice as they try to realize their warped
agenda.
In 1971, the year before Title IX was passed into law, there were
294,015 females participating in athletics in American high schools.
Title IX was applied to athletics in 1979. The year before that, the
number of female athletes in high school had risen 631% to 1,854,400.
That increase was due to changes in society, not Title IX. (Kocher,
1999)
Since Title IX was applied to sports under the Carter Administration
the increase in female participation has slowed dramatically. The Department
of Education began using a three prong test for compliance with Title
IX. Proportionality is the safe-harbor prong of their test. Proportionality
says that if the enrollment is 55% female, for example, the number of
athletes must also be 55% female. That doesn’t mean opportunities,
it means actual participants.
Since there is a higher level of interest in athletics with males than
females, the only choice many schools have had is to eliminate male
opportunities to keep the numbers of the Proportionality quota in line.
This has resulted in less than 25 colleges or universities nationwide
having a gymnastics program. Since 1972 over 433 collegiate wrestling
programs have been eliminated. (Illinois Sports Advocacy Group, Petition
Poster)
Organizations like N. O. W. fought hard to prevent a “Take Your
Sons to Work Day” to go along with the “Take You Daughter
to Work Day”. Title IX has been so perverted by them and the courts,
along with the silent complicity of Congress, that there is a steep
decline in male applications into college. They have used Title IX,
through Proportionality, to prevent schools from allowing walk-on male
athletes, even though those athletes get no financial aid from their
athletic participation.
The weird thing about it is that Proportionality is now preventing
female opportunities from developing. With all schools experiencing
a financial crunch, it is cheaper for a college to drop a male sport
rather than introduce a new female sport. That situation doesn’t
bother the militant feminists because each male program dropped is one
more bastion of male society they have eliminated. Obviously their goal
isn’t to help female athletes, only to hurt male ones.
Well meaning people wrote and enacted Title IX to help bring about
an end to the discrimination women and girls were facing. The way Title
IX has been enforced by the “politically correct” ultra-liberal
members of the government, along with a news media that insists on misinformation,
is the goal of organizations like N. O. W. They will stop only when
members of the government grow a backbone and work to end discrimination
in its entirety instead of trading one from of discrimination for another.
