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Fight4Trump2020 38 points ago +38 / -0

We are seriously living in bizarro world. Title9 was supposed to help women basically forcing schools to give them an equal opportunity for girls/women sports. Now they've bastardized the whole thing. Sad clown world.

If I identify as a horse can I run in the Kentucky Derby?

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latsbruh 2 points ago +3 / -1

wasnt it about funding?

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Fight4Trump2020 4 points ago +4 / -0

Yes, funding for equal opportunity in sports. Teams for females if there was a funded boys team. I believe it also made it mandatory for females to be allowed access to the funded team in the case there is no female equivalent (usually comes up in football & baseball).

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Spottydog 2 points ago +2 / -0

I donโ€™t think itโ€™s so much that if there is a menโ€™s team they must have a womenโ€™s team... but just total funding.

My son is a soccer player. He goes to the large state university. Since they spend such a large amount of money on their menโ€™s football and basketball programs, and must fund womenโ€™s sports equally... it means that something has to go so there isnโ€™t any money to fund a menโ€™s soccer team.

He had opportunities to play at some smaller D3 schools (but decided the state U was a better fit for him) and probably would not have made the state U D1 team even if it existed. But thatโ€™s how it was explained to us by his soccer club college recruitment advisor... due to Title 9 requirements, some schools had to sacrifice their menโ€™s soccer programs since football is far more popular and makes money, so thatโ€™s where the bulk of the funding goes.