Unfortunately, two-thirds of the commission was made up of representatives from Division I sports and not many of the other organizations affected by Title IX were represented. Division I sports are an important athletic body that needs to be represented in the commission, but other divisions and high schools should have also been represented. The commission was strongly biased towards weakening Title IX and at many of the events hosted by the commission were purposefully designed with a 2:1 ratio of people against Title IX to people for Title IX. Later, more clarification was given about Title IX, but it was only because it was almost time for re-elections, and the Republicans realized they needed to do something about Title IX. Although Republicans acted like they wanted to promote Title IX, all they did with their clarification was create a loophole for colleges to be in compliance by sending out an email to female students and considering every non-response to be one of satisfaction with the athletic department. Enforcement for Title IX is nonexistent as no program has been punished or penalized for …show more content…
All of these cases were crucial in determining the scope of Title IX and what people were allowed to do because of it. It was found in the Grove City case that even though the athletic department may not be receiving money from the government and another organization in the college is, the athletic department is still required to comply with Title IX. In the Cannon case, it was determined that men and women have the right to go to court to fight for their right on gender discrimination; it did not need to be a group of people or organization. As for the Franklin case, it was determined that women may seek monetary compensation for intentional discrimination under Title IX. This paved the way for many future court