The midlife crisis of Title IX

Article here. Excerpt:

'In resonance with how powerful men invoke due process to prevent accountability for sexual harassment, extremists complained that Obama-era guidance violated accused students’ due process rights to argue for weaker Title IX protections against harassment (never mind that the guidance required fair processes and was enforced to protect accused students). Indeed, men accused of sexual assault are suing their schools, claiming “anti-male bias,” dangerously suggesting that treating allegations of sexual violence seriously is an attack on men.

This much is clear: When it comes to sexual violence, the male supremacist agenda is to ensure that no one, especially men, will be held accountable for committing it. And yet male supremacists are precisely who DeVos listened to when creating her Title IX rule. As revealed through thousands of emails, they were deeply involved in creating the Trump administration’s Title IX rules — rules that are still in effecttoday. It’s no wonder, then, that these rules significantly weakened protections against sexual harassment, permitting schools to ignore sexual harassment and allowing survivors to be cross-examined by their rapists’ parents or friends.'