Title IX: Anti-Male Legislation Continues to Deny Education Opportunities

One of the most incredulous pieces of legislation that has had a detrimental impact on American Society is that of Title IX. 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."

Imagine yourself as a college athlete who has worked you entire life to earn a scholarship to a school and pursue a career as an NCAA student athlete. Then, drastically, you life as you know it ends because your scholarship is cut due to your institutions compliance to a Law called "Title IX". 

When initially passed through the legislation process Title XI's goal was to eliminate discrimination on the basis of sex in all academic institutions that receive federal aid, but throughout the years that has taken a drastic turn to reverse the discrimination against women and place it on men. 

Essentially the law states that scholarships and sports must be directly proportional to the student body percentage of males to females. So if a schools population is 60% male and 40% female and the total number of scholarships available to the institution is 300 scholarships then 180 scholarships can go to males and 120 scholarships can go to females. 

The entire basis for this law was to make the government and governmental institutions comply with the Equal Protection clauses of the 14th and 5th Amendments to the Constitution. Equality plain and simple is the state or quality of being equal. This law takes absolutely no consideration as to who is funding these scholarships and sports and what the cost and revenue these sports will provide. 

At any major SEC school the Men’s Football Team and Men’s Basketball team bring in more revenue than ALL FEMALE SPORTS COMBINED. Yet these women's sports leech off of the men’s sports that provide their funding and men’s sports are continued to be cut and eliminated due to different women's scholarships being given. 

There is nothing wrong with women's sports. Where this law becomes exceedingly unequal or unfair is when men’s sports are squeezed of their revenue and scholarships simply to support a woman's sport that will inevitably loose money for the institution. 

The line is drawn at the distinction of what equality is. True equality is men’s sports self providing for their services and women's sports doing the same. If a women's sport cannot get the revenue needed for their sport to participate then it is simply not right to eliminate an opportunity a male athlete may have to suffice for the female sports declination. 

Institutions play a major role in this in the way that athletic departments budget the money to different sports. Essentially unfair to a men’s sport, that is bringing in large amounts of revenue, to be forced to reallocate those funds to support a female sport struggling to obtain viewership and support from their fans. 

If you say that female sports are just as important as male sports then let the numbers prove that, but the numbers will say that female sports are just not close to the popularity of male sports. Because this is true, in the implementation of equality it is only fair or equal that male sports that bring in a significantly larger amount of revenue should not have to loose their opportunities in order to supply females with athletic opportunities that will drain large amounts of money from the male sports.