The White House announced Wednesday that the Trump administration is pausing $175 million in federal funding to the University of Pennsylvania (UPenn) for their transgender athlete policies.
A White House post on X said Ivy League university policies are “forcing women to compete with men in sports.”
President Trump signed an executive order on February 5, which would prohibit transgender women and girls from competing in female sports. The order states, “it is the policy of the United States to rescind all funds from educational programs that deprive women and girls of fair athletic opportunities, which results in the endangerment, humiliation, and silencing of women and girls and deprives them of privacy.”
A spokesperson for UPenn said, “…Penn has always followed NCAA and Ivy League policies regarding student participation on athletic teams. We have been in the past, and remain today, in full compliance with the regulations that apply to not only Penn, but all of our NCAA and Ivy Leagues peer institutions.”
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