Title IX was approved by Nixon during the women's movement in the 70s, as part of the Education Amendments of 1972. Nominally, the purpose of this law was to prevent discrimination against women in education, but it was mostly interpreted in the context of funding for sports teams, even before it took full effect in 1975, several years before the Department of Education was founded.
Notably, the law was expanded in 1988 to include any institution receiving federal funding, at all. It was then further expanded in 1994 to require schools to report more details about the genders of their athletes. The law was again modified in 2006, as wikipedia tells it, largely to enable single-sex classes for abstinence only sex education.
Finally, both Title IX and the Department of Education as a whole have been used by Trump as weapons against his ideological opponents. Trump has an on-going battle with Harvard, which is predicated first on expanding Title VI (which covers racism) to include antisemitism, then characterizing Harvard as antisemitic. That is one.
Trump froze $175M of funding for UPenn because of their initial refusal to bar the swimmer Lia Thomas from performing. The school was required to remove the player from their team and apologize before they would receive funding. That is two.
Most recently, Trump has accused several Virginia school districts of Title IX violations for allowing trans girls to use female restrooms. That is three.
So: it seems clear to me that Title IX is an expansion of government overreach, as well as rent-seeking behavior from the women's movement, and this is without even discussing the law's one-sided refusal to protect men's sports programs or men who are falsely accused of rape. Indeed, the entire Department of Education may be unconstitutional, and by now there are practical arguments against it from both the right and left, so it should probably just be removed.
Please let me know what you think, especially if I have contradicted libertarian ethics in any of my arguments.
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