Gómez Title IX Live Hearings for U.S. Dept. of Education (2021)

  Reforming Title IX:  Evidence of the Harm of Universal Mandated Reporting for Marginalized Survivors of Campus Sexual Violence Jennifer M. Gómez, Ph.D. == I gave this 3-minute talk at the Title IX Live Hearings for the Department of Education on 7 June 2021 == My name is Jennifer M. Gómez, and I am a {assistant} professor and sexual violence researcher. I will be speaking about the research relevant to the unintended harm of universal mandated reporting. As well as an alternative of mandated support.    Rape, including that which occurs on college campuses, is harmful for many reasons. One of those reasons is that it takes away the agency/autonomy of the victim. The victim didn’t want to have sex but was forced to. That’s harmful.    University policies, including Title IX, should be the opposite of rape: whereas rape overrides what a victim wants, university policies should respect the victim’s choice.    So, instead of universal mandated reporting that--like rape--takes the autono