ACLU Files Title IX Lawsuit on Behalf of Carnegie Mellon U. Lesbian
While Title IX sex harassment rules have often been used to conduct the campus “War on Men” that screams for the involvement of civil rights groups, there is a lawsuit developing that involves women and one of the nation’s largest rights organizations.
The national office of the American Civil Liberties Union filed a Title IX complaint late last week on behalf of a Carnegie Mellon University student who says school officials did not sufficiently address her claims that she was “verbally and sexually” abused by an ex-girlfriend.
The student, identified only as Gabrielle on the ACLU’s website, alleges that she began a lesbian relationship during her freshman year with the other, unidentified woman. The two women had been — and apparently remain — in the same academic program at Carnegie Mellon.
At some point, the relationship went south. There was a breakup. The complaint says the unnamed girlfriend then stalked Gabrielle and “became verbally and sexually abusive,” reports the Pittsburgh Post-Gazette.
The ACLU’s Title IX claim asserts that Carnegie Mellon professors and administrators didn’t do enough to prevent harassment by Gabrielle’s jilted ex-lover.
Officials at the famed bastion of engineering and fine arts did institute a “no contact agreement” between the two. They also ordered counseling for the lovelorn ex-flame.
The two women could still attend the same classes, though. Also, the complaint says, the stalking ex-girlfriend inconveniently moved in across the hall from Gabrielle during her sophomore year and undertook “screaming and sudden violent outbursts.”
“Almost a year later, finally ready to say what happened and hold her accountable, I filed a complaint against her through the university’s community standards process,” reads Gabrielle’s narration of events. “The campus police officer accused me of seeking revenge by making the report and questioned why I had been in the relationship if I was being so badly abused.”
The ACLU charges that officials at Carnegie Mellon should not ask such questions when there are harassment allegations.
ACLU finally gets serious about girl-on-girl sexual abuse (The Daily Caller)