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There's quite a few same-sex educational organizations around. I think you're confusing this with equal opportunity employment, which only applies to certain sized companies or ones that take Federal money.


Well, I think I am comparing it to any company selling any product, of which very few seem allowed to discriminate on the basis of sex.


Some definitely are. I don't think there are many male waiters in Hooters, are there?


That's employment discrimination, not discrimination of who your customers are. The case of Hooters vs. the EEOC is discussed here: http://blogs.findlaw.com/free_enterprise/2009/04/can-men-be-...

Perhaps a better comparison would be to women only gyms. If you google "are women only gyms legal" you'll come up with a slew of articles suggesting women only gyms are probably not legal, up until the various state legislatures pass specific laws making them legal.

I am not a lawyer, I have no good idea if hackbright is operating legally or not, but I wouldn't be surprised to find what they are doing is not legal.




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