Anti-Male Discrimination in Sports in the US

     A lengthy article by Lisa Neff praises the 40^th anniversary of the adoption of Title IX of the Educational Amendments Act of 1972. But due to enforcement of this law, by 1999 colleges had eliminated 171 men’s wrestling teams, 84 men’s tennis teams, 56 men’s gymnastic teams and men’s track squads. Universities that might have initiated men’s soccer, undoubtedly declined to do so because of the Title IX requirement, but it is hard to have statistics on what might have occurred.  How could a law meant to prevent sex discrimination in sports be used to exclude men from participation in college sports?

     Supporters of the Civil Rights Act of 1964 assured Americans that the proposed law would not be a quota bill. The liberals sponsoring the legislation asserted that hiring and firing to establish or maintain a racial balance was illegal. Yet, by the time of the liberal Nixon Administration, quotas had become mandatory. Because the law forbade quotas, euphemisms were created, such as “goals and time-tables” and more recently, “diversity.”

     To enforce the Civil Rights Act, the EEOC required quota-like practices to achieve racial balance. Democrats and liberal Republicans forget that affirmative action on behalf of one group is negative action against others. In practice it amounts to discrimination against whites, males and sometimes Asians.

Like the Civil Rights Act, Title IX provides a safeguard against the quota mentality, rejecting “preferential or disparate treatment because of imbalance” or “statistical evidence of imbalance.” But under President Jimmy Carter, the quota crowd in the Civil Rights section of the Dept. of Education demanded that colleges seek to have women in sports.

     Lisa Neff writes, “A 2005-06 study found women make up 55 percent of the student population at NCAA schools but less than 45 percent of the athlete population.”  Implicit is the belief that there is something wrong with that statistic.

     Should men be discouraged from sports until women are represented at a rate of 55 percent? But shat about women who are pregnant or not interested in sports? What about women who embrace traditional feminine roles? Democrats will keep pushing women into teams, even when they have little interest in them, thereby denying access by young men to college sports.

     We should end affirmative action and offshoots like Title IX. The fastest way to destroy these injustices a is to vote against liberal Republicans like Nixon who made affirmation action a national policy and against the Democrats who seek to expand these injustices.

Hugh Murray

     Just last week, July 2012, the Obama Administration announced it plans to extend Title IX to the universities departments of math and science.  They will soon be requiring 55% female math and science majors.  More quota madness from the Democrats.--------HM