Title IX: I am sure this is what Congress had in mind



Title IX has forced the men and women of Portsmouth High School to deal with a new problem: a change in locker rooms. The high school, in response to a Title IX investigation that cited inequities between the boys' and girls' locker rooms, has boys and girls use their respective locker rooms in the fall, but has the two genders swap facilities for the spring term. Now, because of a law designed to improve the status of female athletics, the girls of Portsmouth are contending with a communal shower, a lack of mirrors and some unused urinals. In addition, as numerous female students have pointed out, the boys locker room doesn't smell that great. But hey, it's bigger, so there are no problems with Title IX.



The arrangement is only temporary -- the school is building a new athletic facility with equal-sized locker rooms -- but I seriously doubt this is what Congress had in mind when it passed Title IX thirty years ago.

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