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Message: [QUOTE="HuskyNan, post: 4665167, member: 4"] A very nice post and on point [USER=5659]@UconnMark[/USER] I just want to clarify that Title IX is not about sports; it’s to prevent discrimination as described below. [B]Title IX[/B] The U.S. Department of Education’s [URL='https://www2.ed.gov/about/offices/list/ocr/aboutocr.html']Office for Civil Rights[/URL] (OCR) enforces, among other statutes, Title IX of the Education Amendments of 1972. Title IX protects people from discrimination based on sex in education programs or activities that receive federal financial assistance. Title IX states: No person in the United States shall, on the basis of sex, be excluded from participation in, be denied the benefits of, or be subjected to discrimination under any education program or activity receiving Federal financial assistance. [B]Scope of Title IX[/B] Title IX applies to schools, local and state educational agencies, and other institutions that receive federal financial assistance from the Department. These recipients include approximately 17,600 local school districts, over 5,000 postsecondary institutions, and charter schools, for-profit schools, libraries, and museums... A recipient institution that receives Department funds must operate its education program or activity in a nondiscriminatory manner free of discrimination based on sex, including sexual orientation and gender identity. Some key issue areas in which recipients have Title IX obligations are: recruitment, admissions, and counseling; financial assistance; athletics; sex-based harassment, which encompasses sexual assault and other forms of sexual violence; treatment of pregnant and parenting students; treatment of LGBTQI+ students; discipline; single-sex education; and employment…. [URL unfurl="true"]https://www2.ed.gov/about/offices/list/ocr/docs/tix_dis.html[/URL] [/QUOTE]

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