MALES AVOID New Mexico. A Bill Would FORCE Colleges to Believe Accusers or Lose Funding
Thought the Obama administration’s Title IX guidance for sexual misconduct proceedings was bad? New Mexico is considering a bill that would threaten colleges with defunding if they don’t make assumptions that are favorable to accusers in sexual misconduct proceedings. HB 133 passed the House Health and Human Services Committee Friday, and will now be considered by the House Education Committee. The bill’s sponsor, [misguided & anti-male] Democratic Rep. Elizabeth Thomson, said it’s intended to give young people “the resources they need to make the best decisions for themselves and their bodies.” While media coverage portrays the legislation as just another consent-oriented measure, the Foundation for Individual Rights in Education claims that HB 133 functionally bans “impartiality” in sexual misconduct proceedings. By requiring colleges that receive state funding to implement “complainant-centered policies and procedures” and use “trauma-informed” training for campus officials, the bill incentivizes proceedings that are inherently biased against accused students, says Tyler Coward, legislative counsel to FIRE. Not only would “complainant-centered” procedures “almost certainly violate” Title IX, but the fairness of “trauma-informed” training is in serious dispute, he said…Harvard Law School Prof. Janet Halley, for example, has publicly described her school’s training as “100% aimed to convince [adjudication staff] to believe complainants, precisely when they seem unreliable and incoherent.” The assumptions behind trauma-informed training have little if any support in scientific research, according to memory and neuroscience experts interviewed by journalist Emily Yoffe.
thecollegefix By G.Piper thefire.org By T. Coward
