“In the sports sector, what she’s proposing is the worst-case scenario.”
In 2016, Michigan State University gymnast Lindsey Lemke told her coach, Kathie Klages, that she had been sexually abused by Larry Nassar, a doctor in the school’s athletic department. Klages didn’t report Lemke’s allegation to anyone.
In 2017, three Baylor football players allegedly raped two female Baylor students at an off-campus apartment. In this case, the players were separated from the team at the time of the allegations and eventually suspended.
In both of these headline-grabbing cases, the abused students were able to avail themselves of Title IX protections in reclaiming their safety. And according to new Title IX guidelines proposed by Secretary of Education Betsy DeVos, it’s possible that very soon, neither of these things will be considered Title IX violations by the federal government.
View the complete February 14 article by Lindsay Gibbs on the ThinkProgress website here.