What does Title IX say in regards to women participating in male dominant sports such as football or men participating in womens sports such as softball?
Title IX provides that institutions are not required to permit men or women to try out for a contact sport offered for the opposite gender. Therefore, for example, schools are not required under Title IX to allow women to try out for football. Separate teams for men and women are permissible in non-contact sports. Where an institution offers a non-contact sport for one sex and not for the under-represented sex, Title IX guidance provides that members of the under-represented sex shall be permitted to try out for that non-contact sport.
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