Today, Title IX, is thirty-four years old and it has done more harm than good.

For non-feminists or those who don’t follow sports, Title IX is a law stating that athletic departments must be gender equal in opportunity and facilities. If there is a boy’s wrestling team, there must be a girl’s wrestling team; or, if the ratio of boy sports to girl sports is, say, sixty/forty, twenty percent of boy sports must be eliminated to make gender participation equal, if the percentage of girls participating in sports doesn’t rise above forty percent.

Title IX is a well intentioned and has increased women’s sports in schools, which was good and needed. But there were disastrous unintended consequences on many boys’ programs. Schools had to eliminate boys’ teams because not enough girls wanted to play a particular sport. Title IX nine held boys’ sports programs hostage.

Hardest hit were boys wrestling teams. Not many girls are attracted to this sport, which held a traditionally high place in many schools throughout the land. Not any more. They’re gone, and not because of gender discrimination or inequality; Title IX did them in, that and the understandable reality that girls don’t like to wrestle one another.

Other boys’ sports besides wrestling that took a big hit Title IX hit were soccer and swimming. Football, of course, got smacked around big time. Women may like to watch the sport but aren’t willing to play it.

Title IX was a good idea disastrously written. It’s time to change it to reflect not gender equality, but gender reality.