Javits Amendment

Definition

A 1974 amendment to Title IX that directed the Department of Health, Education, and Welfare (HEW) to issue regulations for Title IX's application to intercollegiate athletics, taking into account 'the nature of particular sports.' It authorized the regulatory framework permitting sex-separated sports teams.

Examples

• •West Virginia argued the Javits Amendment and resulting regulations make athletics a unique context where sex separation is expressly authorized, distinguishing sports from classrooms or chess clubs.

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