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HUNTINGTON — The Office of Equity Programs at Marshall University celebrated the 50th anniversary of the enactment of Title IX on Thursday.
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Hearings began Wednesday in Madison, Wis. for two bills that would do just that. Democratic Gov. Tony Evers, a former state schools superintendent, has said that these bills will hurt children—and vows to veto them. Republican state Rep. Barb Dittrich authored one of the bills—arguing that it will “even the playing field.” She even dared to argue that banning transgender student athletes from competing in their gender identity helps to preserve the Patsy Mink Equal Opportunity in Education Act—popularly known as Title IX. It is the federal law that prohibits discrimination in school...