Thanks to Eric Owens of the Daily Caller for writing about my pending civil rights complaint against Michigan State University for allowing a public space in its Student Union to blatantly discriminate over many generations against about 50% of its student body (men), see his article “Michigan State University Faces Civil Rights Complaint Over WOMEN-ONLY Lounge In Student Union,” here’s an excerpt:

A professor has filed a complaint with the Michigan Department of Civil Rights against Michigan State University because the taxpayer-funded school features a women’s study lounge in its main student union — in which male students may not trespass. The professor is Mark Perry, a member of the economics faculty at the University of Michigan–Flint, about an hour down the road.

“The women’s study lounge is a gender-exclusionary space that blatantly discriminates against men,” Perry told The Daily Caller. The professor filed the complaint earlier this summer. The brief text of the complaint reads:

I would like to ask you to investigate gender discrimination against men at Michigan State University’s Women’s Lounge inside the Student Union. This is a publicly-funded/taxpayer-funded property that does NOT allow men to enter the Women’s Study Lounge. This seems like a clear violation of federal law according to Title IX, and a clear case of gender discrimination against men in a public space/accommodation. Please investigate this gender discrimination, which I believe to be a violation of state and federal laws that prohibit gender discrimination.

“The women’s study lounge is a gender-exclusionary space that blatantly discriminates against men,” Perry told The Daily Caller. Perry believes the women’s study lounge violates the Michigan Civil Rights Initiative, a 2006 amendment to the Michigan Constitution.

That initiative, which passed by a popular vote of 58 percent to 42 percent, explicitly prohibits “the University of Michigan, Michigan State University” and every other state-funded educational institution from discriminating against or giving preferential treatment to “any individual or group on the basis of race, sex, color, ethnicity or national origin.” Perry suggests that the women’s study lounge also runs afoul of Title IX, a comprehensive 1972 federal law that prohibits discrimination on the basis of biological sex.