Although Title IX has been in effect for almost 50 years, the cases in school athletics violating this still occur regularly. Specifically, a case has arisen in Minnesota after male students filed a complaint last summer saying the their Fourteenth Amendment and Title IX rights were being violated by the Minnesota State High School League, in which they had a bylaw that did not permit males to join competitive dance teams.
They are said to have believed this bylaw should still be in use because females at the schools had been deprived of equal opportunity for so long. However, this thought completely goes against Title IX in that the underrepresentation had not continued and has since been balanced out across the League.
On Wednesday, the US Court of Appeals for the Eight District overturned a district court ruling that allowed this bylaw to stay in place. Additionally, they issued a preliminary blocking of this bylaw in the League.
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