Male Wrestlers Target California College in Title IX Dispute

California Baptist University violated Title IX by eliminating its wrestling team, among other sports, according to a new lawsuit from three wrestlers at the university.

The university’s changes to its athletic program to bring greater proportionality between its men’s and women’s sports by cutting an all-male program violates Title IX’s limits on “preferential or disparate treatment,” the wrestlers said in their complaint. They’re asking the US District Court for the Central District of California to order the school to reinstate its wrestling program while barring it from ...