The Foundation for Global Sports Development delivers and supports initiatives that promote fair play, education, and the benefits of abuse-free sport for youth.
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Title IX has been spectacularly successful and disturbingly unfulfilled
Title IX has been spectacularly successful and disturbingly unfulfilledIn banning sex discrimination, Title IX fundamentally changed American education by creating the legal expectation of equality. Millions of people have seized the expansive gender opportunities Title IX has forced open, and now their children and grandchildren expect and even take for granted those options. Yet the policy has historically fallen short of its mandate because of a lack of enforcement, particularly on issues of sexual ABUSE and bigotry. As a result, its radical potential to normalize equal treatment across sex and gender in education has not been realized. Title IX passed in 1972 amid other policies affirming women’s rights. in 1997, at the height of his own sexual harassment and perjury scandals. But, a closer look shows that this behavior mirrored the application of Title IX on issues of campus safety from the 1990s forward. During the Clinton, George W. Bush and Barack Obama administrations, when women students accused male athletes of sexual ASSAULT, coaches, university boosters and community leaders frequently circled wagons to protect the alleged perpetrators. This was especially true since the accused often graduated, and sometimes ascended to lucrative sport careers – even as the U.S. Department of Education Office of Civil Rights issued guidance compelling schools to prevent, eliminate and remedy sexual harassment, and lower the standard of proof needed to demonstrate sexual misconduct. Students who reported their coaches’ sexual assaults also faced the trauma of being silenced and subjected to further violence. At Penn State, for instance, assistant football coach Jerry Sandusky abused boys for years – and was further enabled by legendary head coach Joe Paterno and other university power brokers who violated Title IX by failing to report the ABUSE for more than a decade. At MICHIGAN STATE University, orthopedist and athletic trainer Larry NASSAR began sexually abusing children and undergraduates on campus in the 1990s, but university officials ignored multiple students’ reports of ABUSE, allowing him to break down the lives of over 500 athletes over the course of 20 years. These individual examples speak to a catastrophic failure to enforce Title IX by both academic institutions and the federal government. The onus not to be harmed, it seems, is now on victims, rather than on schools to fulfill their mandate and perpetrators not to rape, molest or ASSAULT. Until her recent death, Title IX pioneer Bernice Sandler referred to these stakes as a “chilly climate” for the vulnerable. Meanwhile, queer and trans students continue to face institutional whiplash over access to campus spaces and organizations in alignment with their gender identity and sexuality, although Title IX affords them these protections.
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White Law PLLC was founded to provide more personalized representation to clients facing legal dilemmas. Whether you have an issue that is complex or relatively straightforward, any legal matter can have a significant impact on your life. Our team of experienced lawyers based in Okemos, Michigan, strive to deliver outstanding legal services that exceed your expectations. We utilize our extensive legal knowledge and the latest in technology to bring you effective and proven solutions to your legal issues.