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[quote=Anonymous]Rape is a bigger issue to me, but I don't really see how the two things are really comparable (I'm not too familiar with the Baylor thing, though, because I don't really follow college sports, so please feel free to educate me about it if you think that will change my mind). In the bathroom case, you have a very transparent law passed by the government, and a private organization is deciding whether it still wants to conduct business in that state as a result; because of the nature of legislation, there is no chance that law is going to be changed unless public pressure mounts through these kinds of actions. In the Baylor case, it sounds like the college broke the law in its handling of sexual assault cases (although that's only an allegation right now, not actually proven yet, whereas the NC law undeniably exists), but that the matter is proceeding through legal channels that will hopefully provide the kind of correction that doesn't exist for the N.C. law. Further, my understanding is that the allegations against Baylor don't actually violate NCAA regulations, so for the NCAA to do anything, it would mean punishing the college for conduct that wasn't actually prohibited by the organization; that's not generally a precedent that anyone wants to set. Of course, you can argue that the NCAA should amend its regulations to make these types of things actionable going forward, but making that apply retroactively doesn't usually square with most people's sense of fairness.[/quote]

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