For Title IX, don't cut men's sports, add women's

Article here. Excerpt:

'Sadly, we don’t have men’s cross country or track and field here at Missouri State, and one of the primary causes of this, or so I have been told on multiple occasions, is because of Title IX.
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Because Title IX stipulates that educational institutions must have equal opportunity for male and female students to participate in athletics, this frequently results in men’s varsity sports teams being cut in order to fund women’s sports.

Now I know you’re probably thinking, “But hey, Spencer, are you saying that women shouldn’t have this equality and that men’s sports are more important?”

The answer is 100 percent no. I’m not saying that at all.

Women absolutely deserve every opportunity to play the sports that they want to play. In fact, according to the Title IX information website, “Schools are providing 1.3 million fewer chances for girls to play sports in high school as compared to boys,” and that simply isn’t right.
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I do. Because of Title IX stipulations surrounding athletics, many universities have cut a considerable number of men’s sports programs or have simply not funded them in the first place. One prime example would be the two men’s crew teams (rowing), swimming, tennis and fencing.

If educational institutions simply offered an equal representation of women’s sports to begin with, as it should be, then multiple universities wouldn’t have to cut men’s varsity teams in order to fund female ventures. If we, as a generation, want this to become a reality, the first step is for both sexes to treat the other with the utmost dignity and respect by default, not through legal requirements forcing each to do so.'