or rather the 'safe harbor' interpretation of it?
really. anything? Any women want to come out and defend it?
I'm sort of serious although my mind is apparently made up. I mean - hearing about mens xc teams that have to hold rosters down to 11 to comply ...I can't deal with it.
Is there a repeal movement? Anywhere? it seems that congress had no intention of making the law do what it does - the law doesn't even mention athletics.
Not that I know of.. had to get rid of the college water polo team I was on.. that's the only interaction I've had with it.
As a guy, I don't like the fact that sports like men's xc, track, swimming, gymnastics, and wrestliing are being cut. However, I will concede that before Title IX the opportunities for women in sports was terrible and in some places almost nonexistent, so that's obviously a good thing. Iowa, where I'm from, was actually one of the very first states to have well organized high school state championships for girls.
Um hot cross country chicks? Don't fool your self buddy schools would still be cutting programs due to budget issues they just like to have the scape goat of title 9. The real problem is that foot ball programs have a ton of dudes on scholarship and since there is no equivalent to football on the girls side they have to cut some where to make up for it. And when all is said and done no matter how much we all may love CC and track they do very little for the school.
Learn some history. Then ask again.
Or go ask women in their 50s-60s what sports they played when they were in school.
I recommend doing a Google scholar search on Title IX and see what you come up with. It's not my area, so I can't really comment, but I know that there's been a great deal of research on issues associated with Title IX - research that will likely be much more informed than most answers on this message board.