Title IX at 40 - NYTimes.com "No person in the United State 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."" That's Title IX, best known for increasing the availability of school sports to girls. But Title IX wasn't just about letting girls, who had once been limited to field hockey and cheerleading, move on to soccer, basketball and lacrosse. It requires fair treatment for pregnant and parenting students. It can be used to force schools to respond to cyberbullying when it is gender-based and when it is severe and pervasive enough to interfere with a student's education. Groups like the National Women's Law Center are looking at how Title IX can be used as a tool to remove barriers to girls" participation in science, technology, engineering and math fields. I was not a girl who played organized sports, and for many years, I saw Title IX as something that impacted other women and girls. Now, that seems shortsighted - I have two hockey-playing daughters who have never suggested that their sport is for boys, and I've finally, after all those years of hating gym class, found sports that I enjoy for myself (I've even been known to pick up a hockey stick). More relevant for me as a student, with the changes to sports came other changes: girls on debate teams, girls editing school newspapers, girls running student councils. Those things may not have been boys only in name, but they were often boys only in fact. As the sports fields changed, the clubs and classrooms changed, too. What did Title IX do for you?