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Originally Posted by AGDee
This is not consistent with what we were told back when Title IX passed. We were told that we were granted an exemption and could remain single gender organizations as long as we, in no way, allowed the other gender to join. At that time, all of the fraternities with little sisters groups ended the practice of little sisters groups and we were told we could not participate in big brother/big sister kinds of relationships with fraternities because it would jeopardize our ability to remain a single gender organization.
For Title IX purposes for sports and things, what criteria do they use to define it? Gender or sex?
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There are additional articles about it, but the DOE's Office of Civil Rights has interpreted Title IX to protect transgender students from discrimination based on the gender through which they live their daily lives.
And for what it's worth, you could always remain single-gender. The letters I quoted above pretty much said Title IX does not force any organization to change its policies. It's not the organizations which have the exemptions, it's the schools which are allowed to exempt social orgs.