GOPer Suggests Rolling Back Guidelines For Combating College Sexual Assault

[Yo_Mama_Been_Loggin]

Incoming Freedom Caucus chairman Rep. Mark Meadows (R-NC) suggested that the incoming Donald Trump administration reverse a set of President Obama-era guidelines aimed at combatting campus sexual assault, saying it wastes money and that it denies protection to the "often-innocent accused," USA Today reported Friday.

Meadows issued a report this month on 230 rules that he advocated to be changed or dismantled within the first 100 days of the new administration. He then released a new list this week that added 70 additional rules. The document is not an official Freedom Caucus report because the other members of the group have not voted to adopt it, the group's spokeswoman told USA Today.

Among the new additions is a call to reverse the April 2011 guidance document from the Department of Education’s Office of Civil Rights which set the course and provided standards for how universities should handle sexual harassment and sexual violence complaints.

In the document, Meadows stated that the guidance has caused colleges to spend "hundreds of million" to fight sexual assault and that it denies the "often-innocent accused."

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Maybe they should call it the freedumb caucus.

[Angry Dragon]

1. Maybe they should have a look at what is happening in Minnesota

Well it does make some sense because they do hate women

[mythology]

2. Well if women would just report the legitimate rapes

Besides, the body has ways of shutting the whole thing down.

You would think that Republicans would learn to just not say anything on the subject considering they can't manage to say anything that isn't idiotic.

[mercuryblues]

3. Apparently

we are supposed to coddle trump voters. Don't forget they went R all the way down the ticket. Why would anyone think that electing a man to office, who openly admitted to assaulting women would speak out against this? Why would anyone think that he would stand with women? This is just the beginning. He has a few men's rights advocates on his team, women will not fare well under this administration. Again, this was well known among trump voters, they willingly and knowing voted for this. They weren't duped or conned. Republiklans have been very open about where they stand for at least the past decade. It not like they never said....

some girls are easy to rape. insinuating that females always lie about rape
can't get pregnant from rape, aspirin between the knees, Or even tried to redefine rape as only occurring when force is used. IE, drugging a woman would not be rape.

[Initech]

4. How much more horrible can these assholes get?

[aikoaiko]

5. The rule about mandatory reporting when a student confides about an assault to faculty

is one that I would like to see go away.

I can understand it being mandatory to ask the student for permission to report and provide counseling center/rape advocate contact info, but the rule took power away from the student to talk to faculty in confidence.

I had two female students come to me last semester, separate incidents, who revealed to me that they were the victims of violence by their husbands. One had an ER hospital form and the other a police report. They told me about the incidents because they wanted to be excused from some assignment deadlines which I granted, of course. But they were so angry when I told them I had to tell university officials about the violence and their names. They did not want anyone else to know and felt like they were being treated like children. It is a well-intentioned rule, but not a good one in practice.

[dhill926]

6. ok..."often-innocent accused," ...

got some numbers to back that up? Asshole...