Have school (or other gubmint) officials ever tried to silence your support of wrestling by accusing you of misdeeds? This new Supreme Court case is your potential friend...

[TitleIX is ripe for reform]

Have school (or other gubmint) officials ever tried to silence your support of wrestling by getting you in trouble?   Reassuringly, this new (still evolving) U.S. Supreme Court (SCOTUS) case is your potential friend...  First, an interesting article about it:
 
https://reason.com/2023/10/16/supreme-court-will-hear-this-texas-womans-challenge-to-a-politically-motivated-arrest/

Next, the filings at the U.S. Supreme Court (which will likely decide this case in early to mid 2024):

https://www.scotusblog.com/case-files/cases/gonzalez-v-trevino/

And finally, some perspective from the main lawyer fighting against such encroachments on our freedom of speech:

https://fedsoc.org/events/litigation-update-gonzalez-v-trevino-when-the-courts-wrestle-with-qualified-immunity

What if the case had been available for heroes of ours who advocated for (politically incorrect) reforms (to Title IX's having morphed into a quota) and eventually got ejected based on puzzling purported justifications?   

   

 

[Ban Basketball]

I distinctly remember Slumlord Robinson saying that women had no bidness in wrestling, or it could have been sports in general. 

That was JUST as women's wrestling was a concept.  He lost what little respeck I had for him on that day. 

Bad example. 

[TitleIX is ripe for reform]

I'm a fan of women's wrestling, and have been for decades.   I'm not sure what you mean by "bad example" though.    Please elaborate.   

[Ban Basketball]

11 minutes ago, TitleIX is ripe for reform said:

I'm a fan of women's wrestling, and have been for decades.   I'm not sure what you mean by "bad example" though.    Please elaborate.   

It's in my first paragraph.  

I directly remember Slumlord Robinson making that statement somewhere and I proceeded to criticize him on a wrestling forum.  Of course,  because it was me,  I was a lone wolf arguing against a whole forum of sexists and mysoginists.

Yes,  that seems strange today,  as we've come to realize,  as I said then,  that women's wrestling would help men's wrestling. People didn't see it that way then,  like Slumlord Robinson. 

As further evidence,  I recall when women's wrestling was unveiled at the National Duals here in Cedar Falls.  I was sitting among Minnesota fans who laughed and mocked it like clowns were coming onto mats.

No documentation,  but my eyes and good memory recalls everything that I just wrote.  Just like I recall him being a slumlord. 

I'd testify to it. 

Edited October 19, 2023 by Ban Basketball

[TitleIX is ripe for reform]

That's news to me.   The gripe about the gender quota into which Title IX has (legally impermissibly) morphed is mainly that if women don't want to wrestle then men can't.    If only a few women want to wrestle, only a few men can, and so on...   Meanwhile, men's football pays at least some of the bills for other sports but there's not a female equivalent.   Men's wrestling therefore suffers.   So J Robinson advocated restoring Title IX to its original legislative intent.   An advantage to that approach for women's wrestling is that when men's wrestling exists or gets successfully established, it's less difficult to add a women's team a few years down the road.   

For more on the upcoming legal changes to Title IX's unfair and arguably illegal gender quota: