WILLIAM ANDERSON: Title IX: How a Good Idea Became Higher Education’s Worst Nightmare.

When Congress passed the Higher Education Amendments of 1972, the new law included Title IX, which reads:

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.

The law was not controversial at first. Female college enrollment grew (today, the female-male undergraduate ratio is 57 percent to 43) and women’s collegiate sports were just catching on. Title IX helped increase female participation in college sports, which became the law’s main focus for more than 30 years. . . .

Title IX causes strife because presidential administrations used it to promote controversial, egalitarian, feminist agendas.

Agendas which are not, in fact, supported by the law.