Posted on 07/09/2026 8:05:46 AM PDT by WhiteHatBobby0701
Summary: Title IX has evolved from a seemingly modest anti-discrimination statute into a powerful engine of feminist social engineering, complete with proportionality mandates. The result has been two systemic distortions that rest on a false premise—that differences in competitiveness and interest between the sexes are stereotypes to be engineered away through state action and cultural revolution. Equality under Title IX does not require identical outcomes or the erasure of sex differences. It requires opportunity rooted in human nature that will reveal genuine differences between the sexes. Recovering an approach that accommodates the partly natural, partly cultural differences between the sexes can sustain vibrant women’s sports, protect and perhaps expand male opportunities, and contribute to a healthier, more humane social order.
KEY TAKEAWAYS:
1. Title IX has evolved from a seemingly modest anti-discrimination statute into an engine of feminist social engineering, complete with proportionality mandates.
2. Equality under Title IX requires opportunity rooted in human nature that will reveal genuine differences between the sexes, not the erasure of differences.
3. Accommodating the partly natural, partly cultural differences between the sexes can sustain vibrant women’s sports and contribute to a more humane social order.
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The local ballfields are ALL girls fastpitch. No boys' baseball diamonds exist locally except at schools.
As I learned in Jonsson v. CrossFit, Title IX created a Hobson's Choice: Be a girl to play or be a boy and be shut off.
The next move is to ban new schools from having boys' activities.
But the opportunity is equally available to both.
In my geezer generation few girls had much interest in playing competitive sports. That appears to have changed radically. But the numbers still appear to be askew. Funding should be in proportion to desired participation, for fairness.
“Women aren’t barred from playing college football, and the reason more (a very few do) aren’t playing it is because they’re not good enough to get scholarships.”
Whatever happened to playing for the love of the game?
A BALL FIELD IS A BALL FIELD.
WHY CAN IT NOT BE USED AT DIFFERENT TIMES OF THE DAY FOR DIFFERENT GROUPS???
PRETTY EXPENSIVE REAL ESTATE TO ONLY HAVE LIMITED USAGE. IMO.
I HAVE RIDDEN TRAILS ON HORSEBACK ALL OVER THE WEST.
SHARED SOMETIMES WITH HIKERS-—AND EVEN MOUNTAIN BIKERS-—ALTHO SOME TRAILS WERE OFF LIMITS TO MOUNTAIN BIKERS-—THEY CHEATED. MOTORCYCLE RIDERS USE TRAILS AROUND VIRGINIA CITY, NV, THAT WE USE FOR RIDING-— BUT THEIR EVENTS ARE ALL IN ONE WEEKEND.
My granddaughter always played with the boys...until she turned 12...and she grew 1 inch and they grew 12 inches. lol
Title IX requires equalization of the number of scholarships, so that's why it matters for this discussion. It should not be the number of scholarships issued to men versus women. It should be that the number of scholarships available to be earned by men and women are equal. If men are better than women in football, other men who play other sports shouldn't be penalized by having a reduced number of scholarships available. But that's essentially what happens under the current system.
The importance between fastpitch fields and baseball fields are with grass cutouts and poor mound conditions on these “temporary” fields. Most infielders have never learned to play on baseball fields when they’re playing on temporary fields from fastpitch fields. Also there’s no warning track.
The sports scholarships for college does affect interest in competitive sports.
That and the fast pitch base lines are 30 ft shorter. A women’s fastpitch ball field is the same size as a little league baseball field.
Yes, you nailed it: proportionality to interest, not raw numbers. Which is an expression of equality of opportunity, as opposed to equality of result.
Money introduces huge distortions. Put aside the athletes for a moment and look at the supporting cast of personnel, all of whom are drawing salaries: coaches, administrators, trainers, equipment managers, assistant athletic directors, etc.
For a lot of these people, equality in adminstrative pay, perks, and positions — not equality on the field — is the real issue.
Among the athletes, scholarship money creates artificial demand. Return all college sports to a club basis and eliminate all athletic scholarships, and you would quickly sort out those who love the sport vs. those chasing the money.
Go to any college campus and measure participation in rec sports, pickup games around the campus, and individual use of student athletic facilities. Women might outnumber men when you count the joggers, but unless things have changed more than I think, men will dominate virtually every other activity.
“In my geezer generation few girls had much interest in playing competitive sports. That appears to have changed radically.”
I graduated from high school in 1967. There were no competitive sports for girls with some exceptions-half court basketball in Iowa and field hockey on the east coast.
But women played tennis, golfed, fenced and so forth.
As soon as high school and colleges made competitive sports available, one needed to stay out of the way as young women rushed to sign up. Women’s college basketball is more popular and fills more seats than some men’s teams.
I was the Faculty Representative to the NCAA for a D-3 school from 2015-2020; the enthusiasm by our female students is off the charts.
Actually no. It’s 200’ for fastpitch. Little League Baseball has used a 225’ fence since 2006, up from 205’. These stadiums are configured for adult women at 200’. That’s 25’ too short.
Thanks
I graduated from high school in 1961. There were many single sex private schools where I lived. The girl’s schools had field hockey, basketball, swimming, tennis, softball and lacrosse. We played other schools, but there were no leagues or standings, instead a social hour with the opponent after the game. It was fun. There were no college scholarships either.
I think that the NCAA went overboard when they made athletic scholarships in proportion to the number of males and females enrolled in a university. There are more men who want to play collegiate sports than women, but far more women than men enrolled in college.
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