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Title IX was not intended to transform sports, but it did. The 1972 legislation declared that "no person in the United States shall, on the basis of sex, be excluded from participation in, be denied the benefits of, or be subject to discrimination under any educational program or activity receiving Federal financial assistance."
Title IX led to scholarships and better funding for women's teams -- and an increase in the number of women players from 294,000 to almost 3.4 million.
Today, its promises of equal opportunity are entangled in national debates about gender, identity, and race. |