If the Biden guidelines had remained in force, the colleges should have combated how to also distribute up to $ 20.5 million in payments between men and women.
Washington – The last Trump administration directive on title IX offered more certainty sports departments concerning the payment of players, while suggesting that the federal government would not hold the schools to rigid requirements to distribute the product between the men and women.
Although experts say that the widely awaited decision on Wednesday to cancel Guide Emitted by the Biden administration will have a more symbolic impact than the real world on the Collective appeal regulations And other problems reshaping university sports, some consider it exactly the reason why they are unwanted news.
“Here, we are experiencing this immense growth in all female sports and this kind of saying that we do not really believe that it is precious,” said the UCLA female basketball coach, a closed neck. “It really feels like putting female sports 25 years old, honestly.”
If the Biden guidelines had remained in force, the colleges should have combated how to also distribute up to $ 20.5 million in payments between men and women. Now that it has been rebuilt, schools can return to their original plan for the colony of the house, which, in many cases, consisted in channeling most of the money to football players and basketball.
“This change is an impact, but it is an impact” what we expect “because schools will follow the formula for zero they had always planned,” said Rocky Harris, Head of Sports Performance for States -Unis Olympic and paralympic committee, which has closely observed the colony, because around 75% of their athletes come from the college system.
The federal government is not an actor of nuts and balls in the title of title IX
Since the federal government is not a part in the case of the Chamber, this does not have much to do with the legal strategies used in the trial of $ 2.8 billion, which has implications For female sports at almost all levels – future payments to athletes, damage to athletes who played before Nile was authorized and List limits This will redistribute the figures between the sports departments.
In fact, almost all disputes involving the law of 1972 – a law which obliges schools to grant financial assistance in proportion to the number of students of each sex who play sports on campus – does not come from the government but from individuals . And most of the disputes are finally decided in the hearing rooms, and not in the oval office or in the corridors of the Civil Rights Office of the DOE.
“We do not generally count on the Ministry of Education to have a major impact on the way in which these cases are treated,” said John Clune, a lawyer who has filed a title IX on the case of the room.
Clune is one of those who believe that judge Claudia Wilken should consider title IX when she decides to know whether to Approve the colony of the house During a hearing fixed for April 7. Applicants’ lawyers depict dispute as an antitrust trial with certain components of title IX which are not linked to its ultimate objective.
“These regulations cannot resolve the issue of title IX,” said lawyer for the claimant Jeffrey Kessler.
Arthur Bryant, a lawyer involved both in the regulations of the Chamber and a defending trial IX Implying women’s athletes from Oregonsaid “the Trump administration was wrong” on Wednesday’s decision, but that does not change the situation as a whole.
“The law is always the law. Title IX requires schools to receive federal funds to treat women and men in their intercollegial sports programs also, “said Bryant.
Trump stamps his program on title IX interpretations
This marks at least the third time since its inauguration that the Trump administration has tried to shape title IX to express the agenda of the new president.
Last month, the Department of Education told universities that the government would amount to providing provisions in the law it had promulgated during Trump’s first mandate which included More protections for students accused of sexual misconduct.
Last week, Trump signed a decree aimed at Prohibit transgender athletes Competition in the sports of girls and women.
The department also announced that it was Investigation of San Jose and Penn StateTwo schools at the heart of the debate on transgender sports, on possible violations of the title IX. On Wednesday, he said that he was setting up secondary school sports associations in Minnesota and California in a similar investigation.
These are examples of what has been rare cases of government action initiating title IX. Clune, the lawyer on one of the objections of the house, said that history has shown that this kind of movements were dragging.
“In terms of Obama, there was a lot of higher expectations towards schools to follow the line” on title IX, he said. “But all the real consequences were not so effective and the time it took to resolve complaints took so long that it has almost become an ineffective result.”
There are fears that the last movement of title IX could blunt the momentum for female sports
Trump’s movements come in what has been an era of growth unprecedented for female sports.
Caitlin Clark leading Iowa to the national final of last year, the match for the female title attracted better grades than men for the first time in history. Last month, the NCAA approved payments for female teams Who make March Madness, complying with a practice that existed in the male game for decades.
This occurs after the NCAA and ESPN announced a package of television rights of $ 920 million over eight years with the female tournament as a centerpiece, an increase of more than 300% compared to the previous agreement .
Biden’s advice seemed to be another step forward for female sports, but it was removed from books.
“It may not only be this new decision of the title IX, it is void in general,” said Close, the UCLA coach. “It looks like we are back” and everything else is a reflection afterwards. VE had in female sports. »»