Funding Sexual Harassment & Discrimination
By Kalie Hargrove
As summer is coming to a close for many families, it is time for back-to-school shopping and excitement. As many of us are looking to continue our higher education, we will look to the federal government to fund our education in the form of grants and loans. Unfortunately, these very programs that we are opting into are some of the largest ways that the US federal government actively uses American tax dollars to fund and profit off legalized sexual harassment.
Title IX is set up in a way that is meant to protect students from facing discrimination at higher education institutions that receive federal funding. This includes sexual orientation and gender identity, which was solidified by the Supreme Court on June 15, 2020, when they ruled that “based on sex” included identity and orientation.
Unfortunately, all of those protections are optional for many schools that hold or possibly could hold a religious exemption. These exemptions are set up in a way that allows the US federal government to profit off LGBTQ2SIA+ discrimination and harassment through the use of student loans offered at schools with exemptions. All of this means discrimination is part of federal policy and US tax dollars are paying schools to actively discriminate against their students, which the federal government uses to profit off those being discriminated against…
Kalie Hargrove (she/her)