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Believe the Victim Trauma Informed

Highlights of New Special Report on the Neurobiology of Trauma

Center for Prosecutor Integrity September 1, 2019 Recently the Association of Title IX Administrators (ATIXA) published a Position Paper on “Trauma-Informed Training and Neurobiology of Trauma” that sharply criticizes the assumptions, precepts, and methods of trauma-informed proponents. Now, the Center for Prosecutor Integrity has published a separate report that takes a deep-dive into the science

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Study finds more than half of colleges ‘facially violate’ Title IX with women-only scholarships

https://www.thecollegefix.com/study-finds-more-than-half-of-colleges-facially-violate-title-ix-with-women-only-scholarships/ Study finds more than half of colleges ‘facially violate’ Title IX with women-only scholarships ALEXANDER PEASE – UMASS BOSTON •AUGUST 27, 2019 Arizona has more scholarships for women than 36 states combined have for men Men who want more scholarship money might try a novel tactic: Identify themselves as women. A review of more than 200

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Title IX

Women-Only STEM Programs Target the Gender Gap. Now the Education Dept. Is Investigating Them for Bias.

By Steven Johnson AUGUST 22, 2019 Women have long been underrepresented across science, technology, engineering, and math majors, leading colleges to start hundreds of programs — scholarships, summer camps, and societies — to draw them in. But in recent years, a handful of activists have complained that those programs, and gender-specific programs more broadly, discriminate

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Campus Trauma Informed Violence Against Women Act

Highlights from the ATIXA Position Statement on Trauma-Informed Methods

SAVE August 23, 2019 On August 22, the Association of Title IX Administrators – ATIXA – issued a Position Statement on Trauma-Informed Training and the Neurobiology of Trauma that exposes the many fallacies of “trauma-informed” concepts and methods: https://cdn.atixa.org/website-media/atixa.org/wp-content/uploads/2019/08/20123741/2019-ATIXA-Trauma-Position-Statement-Final-Version.pdf The Statement begins by quoting a claim that is often cited in trauma-informed training materials: “Trauma

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Scholarships Title IX Equity Project

Colleges and Universities are Failing to Meet Their Title IX Obligations to Male Students

PRESS RELEASE Contact: Rebecca Stewart Telephone: 513-479-3335 Email: info@saveservices.org Colleges and Universities are Failing to Meet Their Title IX Obligations to Male Students WASHINGTON / August 20, 2019 – A review of scholarships at over 200 colleges and universities in 36 states reveals widespread discriminatory practices in the provision of sex-specific scholarships for male students

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Affirmative Consent Sexual Assault

Affirmative Consent: New Paradigm for Sexual Behavior

Statement of Neal Sonnett, Member of the Criminal Justice Section, to the American Bar Association House of Delegates August 12, 2019 We agreed to work with the Commission [on Domestic and Sexual Violence] on this Resolution [114], and that goes back to [Resolution] 115 at the mid-year meeting. And [Commission head] Mark Schickman and some

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Affirmative Consent Due Process Trauma Informed

Will the ABA Reject Due Process?

By KC Johnson and Stuart Taylor Jr. Aug. 11, 2019 In August 2014 the University of Tennessee-Chattanooga deemed student Corey Mock guilty of sexual assault, finding that in the disputed encounter he failed to prove he had obtained “affirmative consent” from the accuser. According to Mr. Mock’s unrebutted testimony, the female student’s actions during intercourse

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Affirmative Consent

ABA Resolution 114: It’s Not Dead Yet (Update)

Scott Greenfield August 11, 2019 Lara Bazelon tweeted that the ABA Criminal Justice Section unanimously voted to withdraw its support for Resolution 114 and ask the House of Delegates to table it. Great news, certainly, but this misbegotten mutt, even if it’s just the ABA and not an organization of any significance, isn’t dead yet. The NACDL opposed

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American Bar Association Considers Defining All Sexual Contact as Rape

https://www.thenewamerican.com/culture/item/33081-american-bar-association-considers-resolution-that-virtually-defines-all-sex-as-rape Thursday, 08 August 2019 American Bar Association Considers Defining All Sexual Contact as Rape Written by Raven Clabough The American Bar Association (ABA) will be voting on a resolution that would urge state legislatures to adopt the controversial “affirmative consent” as the criminal definition of sexual consent at its annual meeting this week. Such a resolution

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Sex Without A Notarized Document Of Consent Is Teetering On Becoming A Thing Of The Past

http://www.advicegoddess.com/archives/2019/08/sex-without-a-n.html August 7, 2019 Sex Without A Notarized Document Of Consent Is Teetering On Becoming A Thing Of The Past Of course, even a notarized document doesn’t protect you, as the person you’re having sex with could say they withdrew consent mid-act, and you don’t have proof that you had consent to continue. In short