Title IX: Equal Opportunity For Collegiate Sports

Equal Opportunity for Collegiate Sports

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 (Tigay 1).” Karen Owoc disagrees with Title IX because it doesn’t protect men equally. Title IX amounts to three parts, but part one is the only law proven in court. Part one states the number of male athletes and female opportunities must be corresponding. If not enough of one gender wants to play collegiate sports, to make both genders equal, then the other gender is denied opportunities. Title IX isn’t giving men equal protection. The regulation of

Part one of Title IX is requiring the the ratios or percentages to be equal. For example, according to Karen Owoc’s stats, if a university has “56 percent female, then 56 percent of its athletes must be female (allow a five percent variance)” (Tigay 1). The decision making should be open to the students, which means if they want to play collegiate sports then they’re going to make the student athlete percentages at the university.  Title IX doesn’t seem to be benefiting anyone. Cutting men’s or women’s sports teams to make everything equal only hurts the athletes. For example, based on Karen Owoc, when the percentage of females enrolled exceed the percentage of athletes, they are assumed to be noncompliant. This is also affecting women’s sports not giving them the opportunity based on the ratios required under the law. Whether a man or woman plays a sport at a particular university should be based on athletic ability and how passionate they are about the sport not ratios. Changing and cutting rosters may have an effect on the athlete when they’re choosing which university to attend. No athlete should get turned down from a university or a collegiate sport based upon a