The Trump administration said June was “Title IX Month” and said it would celebrate “with women’s protection actions in accordance with the true goal of” remarkable legislation that opens athletics and academic circles for girls and young women.
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This means that the Trump administration will finally break down in all those schools that, half a century, still shorten their athletes both resources and facilities, right? This will work with Congress to accept meaningful reform so that the Safesport center really makes sports safe from predatory coaches and staff support? Recovery of funding at the Ministry of Education to be able to conduct stable investigations on Title IX? Insist the NCAA guarantees that women athletes are not abandoned by zero and any new structure of college sports?
Oh, bad.
The administration’s interest in Title IX is only to use it as another Kudgel to harass and erase transgender women. To encourage fear of fear and hatred of less than 10 NCAA athletes and 100 or more participating in youth and colleges.
This obsession with the genitals of the highest, the smallest part of the population is, to be honest, strange. Still, the right has immortalized the idea that transgender women are a threat to our very existence, and the Trump administration, which never misses the opportunity to collect its base, runs with it.
According to this White House, transgender people are so big and so strong that they are a marauding horde that will go beyond the games and catwalks. They are also supposed to be too weak to fight in the military, but do not mean that the contradiction! Keep your eyes focused on this “threat”.
With the exception of transsexual women, they are not and have never been the true danger that women and women’s sports face. Or women in the greater society, on this.
When Title IX was accepted this month 53 years ago, it was intended to raise the artificial restrictions that hold women. And there is. Now women make up more than half of the population in higher education and the idea of telling a woman that she cannot go to a legal school or high school because he would take a place from a man, is now regarded as correct, funny.
WNBA and NWSL are flourishing, and American women have won the number of medals at the Paris Olympics in Paris – just as they did in Beijing, Tokyo, Pchenchhan and Rio. NCAA basketball, volleyball and softball are increasing.
But there are still so many areas where women are lagging behind. The areas where the administration that was sincere for justice can make a change.
Review of USA Today in 2022 found that for every 1 school schools spent on travel, equipment and recruitment of men’s teams, they spend 71 cents for their comparable women’s units.
For a two -year period, which added up to $ 125 million more spent on men than women in basketball, baseball and softball, golf, football, swimming and diving and tennis.
However, the Ministry of Education Civil Rights Service has never once withdrawn the federal funding from a school for these extreme pricks of Title IX. And given the gutting of the ED ministry under Trump, this is unlikely to change! I doubt that education secretary Linda McMahon will even be asked when he appeared on Wednesday before the US Education and Work Committee.
NCAA cries for the Congress and the White House to protect against the financial fire of the landfill it created and nourished. A system that is increasingly implementing more money to men athletes and puts women’s teams in danger.
The Biden administration tried to eliminate some of this, issuing guidelines requiring zero money paid by the schools under the proposed house agreement, to be subject to Title IX. The Trump Administration has tossed this guide back.
You can find at least one story per day of a coach who has been arrested or convicted of abuse of a young athlete. They may not attract the attention of Larry Nasar’s disgusting crimes, but one case of abuse of a child is one case too much. Still, Congress has a slow walk with Safesport reforms and did a little to deal with its continuous financing problems.
But continue about dozens of transsexual athletes in youth and colleges sports.
Work to level the playing field, started with Title IX, is not completed; The Trump administration is right to do so. He prefers to throw bombs and take a division than to do it, and it’s nothing to celebrate.
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This article originally appeared in USA Today: Opinion: Trump Administration does not get the point of partition IX