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Title IX is a federal civil rights law that prohibits any college or university that receives federal funding from discriminating against an individual upon the basis of their sex. This includes female, male, and gender-nonconforming individuals. Recently it has been used to address sexual discrimination in a variety of forms including sexual harassment that involves both sexual violence and other forms of harassment not involving violence. Sexual violence includes but is not limited to sexual assault, rape, sexual battery, and sexual coercion. The goal of this legislation is to prevent these forms of violence from seriously limiting or even denying a student’s ability to participate or benefit from the school’s educational programs and activities. The law covers behaviors that occur both on and off campus.
According to the US Department of Education, the Office of Civil Rights (OCR) is responsible for the enforcement of Title IX as well as many other laws. The scope of...
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VanBergeijk, E.O. (2018). Title IX. In: Volkmar, F. (eds) Encyclopedia of Autism Spectrum Disorders. Springer, New York, NY. https://doi.org/10.1007/978-1-4614-6435-8_102233-1
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