Anti-discrimination law is being used to discriminate

Published June 8, 2015 4:35pm ET



Author Jessica Gavora has a great Wall Street Journal article detailing how the anti-discrimination law known as Title IX is used to discriminate.

Title IX was first passed 43 years ago as a way to increase the number of women athletes on college campuses. But Title IX has since been expanded to force colleges and universities to play investigator, judge and jury for accusations of sexual assault. The law has been reinterpreted to consider sexual assault a form of gender discrimination — even when the accuser and accused are of the same gender — that must therefore be handled by the university.

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