Three cheers for the female athletes, their parents, the ACLU, Legal Aid at Work and Simpson, Thatcher & Bartlett LLP for filing a Title IX lawsuit seeking to end discrimination against female athletes in the public schools in Hawaii (“Lawsuit for female athletes continues Mink’s fight,” Star-Advertiser, Dec. 7).

Title IX became law in 1972 (46 years ago) and it is outrageous that the state Department of Education (DOE) has to be forced to obey the law this many years later. The administrators of those schools who allowed this discrimination to go on for so long should be held accountable as well as the DOE.

Linda Estes

Koloa, Kauai

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