Pepperdine Gay Bias Case — A Loss And A Win For Plaintiffs

By Ronald Katz (August 14, 2017, 1:27 PM EDT) -- Sexual stereotyping in sport has been occurring for literally millennia. It is therefore not reasonable to expect that it will suddenly end. Rather, halting progress has been the pattern. That pattern continued last Friday when two lesbian basketball players who were thrown off Pepperdine's women's basketball team lost their discrimination case against the university, which is located in Malibu, California. Despite the loss, however, the fact that the case was permitted to go to trial represented a major blow against sexual stereotyping....

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