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ARTICLE · 24 APRIL 2023

Top 10 Misconceptions Of Title IX

Today, one of the primary roles of Title IX is to ensure schools equitably adjudicate sexual misconduct complaints.

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  1. Title IX relates to college athletics.
  • While Title IX's original purpose when it was enacted in 1972 was mainly to expand women's access to athletic opportunities in college, its scope has been massively expanded. Today, one of the primary roles of Title IX is to ensure schools equitably adjudicate sexual misconduct complaints.

2. All Title IX victims are female.

  • The CDC's National Intimate Partner and Sexual Violence Survey: 2010-2012 State Report, released in 2017, indicates the following self-report statistics regarding male victims of sexual abuse:
  • "Made to penetrate" offenses (wherein a male was forced to penetrate an offender): 1.7 million victims
  • Sexual coercion: 1.6 million victims

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