American Olympic dominance owed, in part, to Title IX

Probably has just as much to do with how much money we have.

So what is going to happen when title IX and the transgendered movement collide in a vast liberal train wreck. Does a biological male who identifies as a transgender lesbian who can dunk get a female scholarship? And does he/she get to play on our female basketball Olympic team? The possibilities are mind blowing!

False.

It's because we don't cut women's clitoris off...keep them in beekeeper suits...make them slaves...let them be educated...etc.

It's because women are free here.

No it is not.

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Long story short, many of the women athletes are already world class prior to college where Title IX kicks in.

Plus, the decline of doping has led to improved results for US athletes compared to the athletes from Russia, former East Germany, etc.

I have always thought title ix was needed and helped women a lot. But now it is outdated and actually holds mens sports back. At least at the collegiate level.

Maybe I'm wrong, but LSU wouldn't shut down women sports if title ix went away.

Great article.

The unique and broad scale US university system has definitely helped the rest of the world.

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There are 1.13 million foreign students in the U.S., That represents a 14% increase over last year, nearly 50% more than in 2010 and 85% more than in 2005.

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US universities have been become global training grounds on a grand scale. We educate the world and train the best athletes who compete for their home country.

I mean, 23 medals for Stanford alone is half of Germany. If you added up Standford, Cal, USC, Florida, they best China.

American female dominance may owe something to Title 9.

Our decline in men's gymnastics and wrestling are directly linked to it, as well. Men's soccer is also suffering. Why would anyone encourage their male children to pursue these sports? If he isn't a prodigy, he won't even get a scholarship. On the other hand, I am pushing all kinds of lame sports on my daughters. Soccer, track, even basketball. All they have to be is decent in one of the sports women really don't care about (all of them), and have good grades, and they will probably get a scholarship somewhere. I have a friend who's daughter got a track scholarship, and she doesn't even run with the team anymore. They kept her on scholarship simply so they could meet their Title 9 quota because she has a good GPA. It's really that easy.

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I've always held the opinion that the scholarship balance has always been out of whack because of certain sports that require an extraordinary amount of scholarships compared to other programs (i.e. football). And I'm not a big fan of partial funding for baseball with full funding for softball because of that scholarship imbalance. There definitely needs to be some revisions.

That all said, I wouldn't get rid of Title IX all together. I've seen far too many women benefit from it and IMO we're better as a population for it.

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One proposal I've seen that I think could work was the following:
- Remove all FBS football programs from the scholarship balance count
- If a program is net-positive in income, then remove it from the scholarship balance count. This would remove a lot of D1 men's basketball programs, some D1 women's basketball programs (UConn, some ACC programs, etc.), and some baseball programs (a fair bit of the SEC, some of the ACC and Big XII, some of the PAC XII). You'd also remove random powerhouses like Iowa wrestling or Penn State women's volleyball.
- Enforce a scholarship gender balance over all other sports

Feminists don't want equality, they want preference.