Oklahoma Wesleyan President's Anti-trans Policy Denounced as 'Despicable'http://www.advocate.com/transgender/2016/1/06/oklahoma-wesleyan-presidents-anti-trans-policy-denounced-despicable-hrcThe Advocate/By Dawn Ennis January 06 2016 3:53 PM EST
"The Human Rights Campaign is targeting the president of a conservative Oklahoma university for comments in which he boasts he's "proud" his institution sought a waiver from the government to discriminate against transgender people.
As The Advocate reported, there's been a spike in the number of religiously-affiliated colleges and universities across the nation seeking exemptions from federal antidiscrimination laws.
Title IX of the Education Amendments of 1972 forbids sex discrimination at any educational institution that receives federal funding, which most do in some form, be it research grants or student financial aid. But it allows any school "controlled by a religious organization" to apply for a waiver from the nondiscrimination requirement if complying with Title IX "would not be consistent with the religious tenets of such organization.""
