Last night I heard Gov. Sarah Palin tell Charles Gibson, "I'm a Title IX girl, Charlie." And in a 2007 interview she said, "I had a great upbringing under Title IX. I can't imagine where I'd be without the opportunities provided to me in sports."
 
I wonder if she appreciates that she's the beneficiary of a great liberal reform, the Civil Rights Act of 1964, to which Title IX is an amendment. The education amendments to that act, passed in 1972 to forbid discrimination in education on the basis of gender in any institution receiving federal funds, are enforced by a federal agency, the Office of Civil Rights in the U.S. Department of Education. 

The author of Title IX was a Japanese-American female Democrat from Hawaii, Rep. Patsy Mink.