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'Title IX'

Ken Starr on the real victim of Baylor rapes

Kenneth Starr, whose persecutorial past need not be repeated here, gave an extensive interview yesterday with Evan Smith of the Texas Tribune and, boy, was it a corker. The football coach was the true victim, said Starr.
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Federal court in North Carolina blocks discriminatory anti-LGBT bill

A federal court has blocked the University of North Carolina from enforcing the anti-LGBT North Carolina law intended to block transgender people from using bathroom and other facilities for their gender identity.
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Texas judge blocks Obama guidance on transgender restroom use in schools

A Texas federal judge, Reed O'Connor, has issued a preliminary injunction against the Obama administration guidance that Title IX prohibits discrimination on gender identity, guidance that would allow transgender students in schools to use restroom and locker facilities that match their identity.

How Title IX hurts the sexual assault victims it's supposed to protect at the University of Arkansas

The federal government is investigating the way the UA handles allegations of rape.
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UPDATE: UA chancellor pays a call; talks bathrooms, Razorbacks and more

Joseph Steinmetz, the new chancellor at the University of Arkansas in Fayetteville, is making a bus tour around Arkansas and perhaps a measure of the thoroughness of his effort was a stop of nearly an hour yesterday at the Arkansas Times.My impressionistic take: Good.

Transparency promised on Title IX exemptions

The New York Times reports that the federal Education Department will create a searchable public database that lists colleges and universities with exemptions on religious grounds from Title IX civil rights law. One college in Arkansas currently has such a waiver.
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UA mum on Title IX inquiry in volleyball coach complaint

The Athletic Department at the University of Arkansas has said it is looking into an anonymous complaint about bullying treatment of players by women's volleyball coach Robert Pulliza. But what about the university office charged with compliance with federal non-discrimination law?

UPDATE: Religious colleges, including one in Arkansas, move to protect LGBT discrimination

Dozens of Christian colleges, including Williams Baptist in Arkansas, have asked for federal waivers from Title IX so that they may be able to continue to receive federal money while discriminating based on religious tenets, typically against LGBT students but sometimes also against unmarried women who have children or have had abortions.
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Colleges finagle to meet female athletic targets

Title IX, which led to a huge increase in female athletic participation in college, has left many men unhappy because of the impact on male sports.

She made it better

As we noted a few days back, Arkansas gay and lesbian rights advocate Carolyn Wagner passed away on Jan. 18 after a long battle with cancer.
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Gay-lesbian rights pioneer dies

Carolyn Wagner, the feisty Fayetteville mother whose struggle to stop gay and lesbian bullying in schools resulted in a landmark legal agreement, has died in Tulsa after a long struggle with cancer, liver failure and hepatitis she acquired through a blood transfusion.
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