This shows why Title IX is a stupid and unjust law.
Before the parents took action both teams had bad seating. After the parents took action the girls were no worse off than before and the boys were better off. After the suit the boys are worse off and the girls are no better off. The parents of the boys pay taxes so that the government can make their children worse off.
This is a microcosm of what is wrong with Title IX since girls are not as interested in sports as boys the only way to achieve parity between boys and girls sports is to cut boys sports. Thus instead of helping out girls it only hurts boys.
In my college they decided to start having tennis as a varsity sport. Female tennis is the most successful sport for women in the country. There have been succesfull womens tennis players who were among the biggest sports stars in the country for forty years. At the college overall women were two thirds of the student body. Five women tried out for the womens team and fifteen men tried out for the mens team.
It is not just spectator interest, it is participant interest and parental interest. If 100 boys want to participate in sports and 50 girls do than having equal opportunities means having twice as many spots for boys.
No, football=football in Canada.
Its proportional. If you have 100 girls and 100 boys in your school and 80 of the boys want to participate in sports but only 60 of the girls do, you can still provide sports for 80 boys. What you can’t do is provide sports for 80 boys and only 40 girls. Or 70 boys (not everyone makes the team) and only 30 girls - If 95% of the boys who want to play sports make a team, you’d better make sure you have spots for 95% of the girls who try out. And you can’t field a boys basketball team that gets the gym, while the girls basketball team only gets the hard court outside.
(My son is playing baseball right now and they have four baseball teams and four softball teams that need to use the gym for practice - their is still snow on the fields. So everyone rotates through - the boys can’t get better times for the gym than the girls do - but to make it fair, the girls don’t get better time than the boys - they rotate week to week. Once the snow is gone, varsity and JV get the fields (baseball and softball) and the 9/10th grade teams go to a nearby park (baseball and softball). You couldn’t have the boys use both home fields, and have the girls use the park).
Which is one reason why schools have teams like track and cross country and swimming - where there is lots of room on the team for athletes - those provide opportunities for everyone - not everyone can make a 16 player baseball roster.
By the way, our high school also offers adaptive athletics - because it kids with disabilities get a chance to play as well. You don’t get too many choices (there aren’t enough kids to field a wheelchair basketball team - but apparently the high school fields an adaptive bowling team).
None of this applies, of course, to private teams - want your kid to play traveling baseball, soccer, football, hockey, volleyball or basketball - all over the country there are plenty of opportunities to do so. They market can play freely there - and does. And from the pictures I’ve seen of hundreds of girls at traveling volleyball tournaments on facebook (all my friends daughters play volleyball), there is ample market, support and spectators for girl’s sports.
One of the issues that happens more today than ever is that at high school - and of course college - levels - it really isn’t a matter of giving GIRLS opportunities - both boys and girls needed to take the opportunities to get good at their sports much earlier - there isn’t room on the girl’s volleyball team for everyone who played traveling volleyball starting in fifth grade, much less someone deciding to "try volleyball"for the first time as a Freshman in high school. Its about making sure female athletes have similar opportunities to the opportunities given to male athletes. Which creates the same issue along socio-economic lines (parents who are struggling don’t tend to invest in a private pitching coach) that existed before Title IX along gender lines.
Title IX doesn’t ignore that. It requires equal opportunity, not equal participation. Dangerosa explains it well.
No, it doesn’t. If fewer girls want to play then the school can fund fewer places. Only in the imagination is Title IX a rigid requirement that there be as many places for women as men.