In the wake of recent decisions by the U.S. Supreme Court’s radically conservative supermajority, conscientious Connecticut lawyers will be rightly concerned about reproductive rights, gun safety, voter access, the continuing climate crisis and the evisceration of the wall between church and state. To this tragically long list we hasten to add the court’s unceremonious undercutting of one of our nation’s most important civil rights statutes.

Title IX of the educational amendments of 1972 guarantees that, “No person in the United States shall, on the basis of sex, be excluded from participation in, be denied the benefits of, or be subjected to discrimination under any education program or activity receiving Federal financial assistance.”