TITLE IX RESCINDED

On September 22nd Betsy DeVos rescinded the Title IX guidelines that were created as some form of due process for college victims of sexual assault.

DeVos stressed the rights of the accused students, but she must not understand that the accused students were given every right as the students who are the victims. They both are given due process, they both are interviewed by the same people, they both are allowed to provide others to speak on their behalf about the situation, they both are allowed no contact orders, they both are allowed an advocate to present, they both are allowed to appeal, they both are given the same RIGHTS.

This “failed system” has not failed, the prior administration did NOT “weaponized the office of civil rights” they actually gave equal rights to the victims.

Victims could finally come forward on a college campus and feel that they might actually be believed, that some justice will be had on the college campus.

Devos says that “not one more survivor will be silenced” but by revoking the guidelines that is what Devos is doing. Devos, says she has sympathy for parents whose children are sexually assaulted and that she cannot imagine receiving that call, well if she wants I give her my parent’s phone number and she can talk to my mom and see what it was like for her to receive that call.

By revoking or rescinding these guidelines college will be allowed to handle sexual assaults however they want.

I was raped when I was in college, and my college thought it was okay to have a 90 statute of limitations, which means they will only handle a case of sexual assault if you report within 90 days. Most victims take months if not years to come forward.

In my case, I came forward the next day the school still hide behind the 90 day policy and blamed it on a fax error. That’s right a fax error. They said when the Campus Police faxed over the report to the college judicial department it must not have gone through. Even though I reported in 24 hours they wouldn’t do anything because I was assaulted towards the end of the school year and over the summer, 90 days had passed.

It was easier to have the school police tell me every time I called which was almost weekly that they are still waiting to hear back from judicial from the fax that was sent than to pick up a phone and call or get off their asses and walk over.

I myself called judicial, I even went there and it wasn’t until the 1st day of classes in the fall that I finally got to meet with judicial. Turns out, that office was closed over the summer. So since the fax never went through, and since they are closed over the summer, 90 days passed and I was left to deal with my rapist on campus the rest of my time there.

My rapist would wait outside my dorm, be outside my room in the middle of the night, follow me across campus, and sit at the next table for lunch and nothing could be done because he was being “just another student.” But he wasn’t just another student he was my rapist.

Revoking or rescinding the Title IX guidelines on College sexual assault will make my case the norm. Instead, the norm should be allowing a victim to seek and obtain justice and maybe get back someone the power that was taken away from them when they were raped.

By rescinding the Title IX guidelines you are keeping the power in the abuser's hands. Enough is enough, victims must come first!

#letitbeheard