Title 9 Persuasive Speech

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How many of you are in a multi-gender sport where guys and girls play on the same team. Not as many of you as say when you were little. When you are at that age your skill is relatively the same. So with title 9, there needs to be some adjustment because girls can play "boy" sports such as football, wrestling and much more. But guys can't play girl sports at most schools. Title 9 states that girls are not on the same playing field so they have to be on an all girl team, but most schools don't have enough guys to make a team. I agree with author Michael Lancaster ‘’As society changes, laws should change as well.’’ I claim that title 9 needs some adjustments and these are my reasons it is threatening the health of young girls, it is unfair …show more content…

Title 9 has pushed girls to focus on one sport all year round causing multiple stress injuries. For example, I train really hard all year round at softball to try to get a scholarship. This causes a lot of stress on my knees because I catch multiple times a week all year round. According to Herald-Times, a college can only give out 18 scholarships for girls and 65 for boys so that isn't enough for boys or girls that is why most boys and girls get stress injuries trying too hard at one sport because there aren't enough scholarships for all sports.

Next, Title 9 is unfair for boys because they have approximately 11 of their scholarships just between the baseball team and 12 for women's softball. In most sports, girls have more scholarships than boys. According to Peter Keating “almost all of the sports that have a girl and boy team the girls have more scholarships”.

Another reason is, Male sports are dramatically suffering from title 9 laws. In 2002 ISU dropped baseball and swimming for boys. The women got scared because they thought they might drop softball and swimming. But Brad White stated that “They were never really going to drop a women's sport they really can't”. They never did drop them that is unfair for males to be suffering because women needed more scholarships than

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