Title IX ‘Fairness:’ Force Co-Ed Frats, But NOT Sororities

Because that’s just going too far!

Here’s another example of the goofy policies made possible under the Title IX law.

According to HeatStreet, a Yale student group is arguing on the side of “fairness” to allow women to join fraternities but they don’t want to allow men to join sororities. See, that's how liberal fairness works.

Here’s the report:

Engender,  a group led by students of Yale, claims it will lobby the university—citing Title IX, which prohibits discrimination based on gender, and internal Yale policies against discrimination—to issue sanctions against male-only fraternities.

Will McGrew, a co-director of the organization, told Yale News that it’s a “logical next step” to approach the Yale administration “because all of these organizations fall under the purview of Yale legally, either because they are registered as Yale organizations or it is literally all Yale students that constitute them.”

The group’s co-directors also said that allowing only men to join fraternities is a form of sex discrimination and the university has a responsibility to address the issue as it falls under the Title IX and Yale’s policies about gender discrimination.

Engender’s argument against allowing males to join all-female organizations rests on its belief that fraternities set the “social trends” on campus more so than do sororities and that sororities are more focused on “intimate associations” which don’t affect those same trends. 

It’s not so much about sanctions against male-only frats, the Yale Daily News clarified, but more so a fight for gender inclusivity. That is, the group wants “to intervene in the single gender membership policies of fraternities by helping local Yale chapters navigate the gender requirement bylaws of their national organizations as well as prepare the wider student community for a social system in which more gender inclusive spaces exist on campus.”

One co-ed fraternity that already exists on campus, Fence Club, says organizations like theirs create “a space free of gendered expectations,” meaning girls can have a safe space to play beer pong like the boys do. Fence Club says their female members couldn’t find entertainment like this anywhere else. A curious allegation to be sure. The club has been accepting women since 2009, but Engender doesn’t want that kind of inclusion limited to just one fraternity. It must be allowed across the board… except for the female-only clubs. Fairness, remember?

As HeatStreet noted, the move will most likely fail because the Department of Justice's Title IX policy reads: “Title IX exemptions include the membership policies of certain university-based social fraternities and sororities.” Of course, that's not going to stop college liberals from trying to turn the DoJ into the Department of Social Justice.

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