{"id":807,"date":"2022-06-09T08:51:43","date_gmt":"2022-06-09T12:51:43","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.law.georgetown.edu\/gender-journal\/?page_id=807"},"modified":"2025-05-12T11:10:36","modified_gmt":"2025-05-12T15:10:36","slug":"athletics-and-title-ix","status":"publish","type":"page","link":"https:\/\/www.law.georgetown.edu\/gender-journal\/in-print\/volume-xxiii-issue-2-annual-review-2022\/athletics-and-title-ix\/","title":{"rendered":"Athletics and Title IX"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><span style=\"font-weight: 400\">Congress passed Title IX of the 1972 Education Amendments (<\/span><span style=\"font-weight: 400\">\u201c<\/span><span style=\"font-weight: 400\">Title IX<\/span><span style=\"font-weight: 400\">\u201d <\/span><span style=\"font-weight: 400\">or\u00a0 <\/span><span style=\"font-weight: 400\">\u201c<\/span><span style=\"font-weight: 400\">the Act<\/span><span style=\"font-weight: 400\">\u201d<\/span><span style=\"font-weight: 400\">) to end sex-based discrimination in education.<\/span><span style=\"font-weight: 400\">\u00a0<\/span><span style=\"font-weight: 400\">Title IX states <\/span><span style=\"font-weight: 400\">\u201c<\/span><span style=\"font-weight: 400\">[no]\u00a0 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 <\/span><span style=\"font-weight: 400\">. . . <\/span><span style=\"font-weight: 400\">.<\/span><span style=\"font-weight: 400\">\u201d <\/span><span style=\"font-weight: 400\">The Act is most widely known for its application to sports, specifically in expanding opportunities for female athletes. While the Act never explicitly addresses athletics, prior to the passage of the Act, athletics were recognized as a\u00a0 part of the educational process and subject to the Equal Protection Clause of the\u00a0 Fourteenth Amendment.<\/span><span style=\"font-weight: 400\">3 <\/span><span style=\"font-weight: 400\">Not only does Title IX apply to athletics issues, but it also applies in situations involving sexual harassment and employment discrimination.<\/span><\/p>\n<a href=\"https:\/\/www.law.georgetown.edu\/gender-journal\/wp-content\/uploads\/sites\/20\/2022\/06\/Athletics-and-Title-IX.pdf\" class=\"pdfemb-viewer\" style=\"\" data-width=\"max\" data-height=\"max\" data-toolbar=\"bottom\" data-toolbar-fixed=\"off\">Athletics and Title IX<\/a>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Congress passed Title IX of the 1972 Education Amendments (\u201cTitle IX\u201d or\u00a0 \u201cthe Act\u201d) to end sex-based discrimination in education.\u00a0Title IX states \u201c[no]\u00a0 person in the United States shall, on [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":8524,"featured_media":0,"parent":739,"menu_order":2,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","template":"abstract.php","meta":{"_acf_changed":false,"_price":"","_stock":"","_tribe_ticket_header":"","_tribe_default_ticket_provider":"","_tribe_ticket_capacity":"0","_ticket_start_date":"","_ticket_end_date":"","_tribe_ticket_show_description":"","_tribe_ticket_show_not_going":false,"_tribe_ticket_use_global_stock":"","_tribe_ticket_global_stock_level":"","_global_stock_mode":"","_global_stock_cap":"","_tribe_rsvp_for_event":"","_tribe_ticket_going_count":"","_tribe_ticket_not_going_count":"","_tribe_tickets_list":"[]","_tribe_ticket_has_attendee_info_fields":false,"footnotes":"","_tec_slr_enabled":"","_tec_slr_layout":""},"class_list":["post-807","page","type-page","status-publish","hentry"],"acf":[],"ticketed":false,"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.law.georgetown.edu\/gender-journal\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/pages\/807","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.law.georgetown.edu\/gender-journal\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/pages"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.law.georgetown.edu\/gender-journal\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/page"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.law.georgetown.edu\/gender-journal\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/8524"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.law.georgetown.edu\/gender-journal\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=807"}],"version-history":[{"count":2,"href":"https:\/\/www.law.georgetown.edu\/gender-journal\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/pages\/807\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":824,"href":"https:\/\/www.law.georgetown.edu\/gender-journal\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/pages\/807\/revisions\/824"}],"up":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.law.georgetown.edu\/gender-journal\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/pages\/739"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.law.georgetown.edu\/gender-journal\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=807"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}