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The Trump medication paused $175 cardinal successful national backing to the University of Pennsylvania implicit its inclusion of transgender athletes successful women’s sports, FOX Business exclusively reported connected Wednesday morning.
The Ivy League assemblage present stands to hazard losing each of its national backing amid an probe into potential Title IX violations.
Riley Gaines, present a spokeswoman for the Independent Women’s Forum, famously tied Lia Thomas, left, for 5th spot successful the 200 Freestyle finals astatine the NCAA Swimming and Diving Championships. (Brett Davis-USA TODAY Sports)
A elder medication authoritative told FOX Business that the medication has paused $175 cardinal successful national funding. This did not relationship for UPenn’s full national funding, which the assemblage antecedently reported past twelvemonth was astir $1 billion.
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The intermission is not a nonstop effect of the probe into UPenn, which the Department of Education announced a time aft the president signed the "Keeping Men Out of Women’s Sports" enforcement bid connected Feb. 5.
Acting Assistant Secretary for Civil Rights Craig Trainor said successful a connection provided by the section past period that 3 institutions would beryllium investigated for suspected Title IX violations.
In summation to UPenn, San Jose State University, which made headlines successful the autumn aft respective schools refused to play the women’s volleyball squad due to the fact that of a trans jock connected the roster, and the Massachusetts Interscholastic Athletic Association are besides being investigated for suspected violations.
Blaire Fleming, #3 of the San Jose State Spartans, looks connected during the 3rd acceptable against the Air Force Falcons astatine Falcon Court astatine East Gym connected Oct. 19, 2024 successful Colorado Springs, Colorado. (Andrew Wevers/Getty Images)
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UPenn archetypal made headlines during the 2022 play erstwhile Lia Thomas, a transgender pupil athlete, was enactment connected the women’s squad and would yet spell connected to triumph a nationalist title rubric successful the women’s 500-yard freestyle.
Thomas would besides necktie with former Kentucky swimmer Riley Gaines for 5th spot successful the 200-yard freestyle that year, though it would beryllium Thomas that solely received the trophy during the awards ceremony.
Thomas’ information sparked a nationalist statement surrounding girls’ and women’s sports, which, nether the Trump administration, has seen respective states astatine likelihood with national law.
Texas swimmers Erica Sullivan and Evie Pfeifer clasp arsenic 500 Freestyle victor Lia Thomas walks past during the NCAA Swimming and Diving Championships connected March 17, 2022 astatine the McAuley Aquatic Center successful Atlanta. (Photo by Rich von Biberstein/Icon Sportswire via Getty Images)
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Last week, the U.S. Department of Agriculture paused backing to the University of Maine System, a web of 8 nationalist colleges successful the state, but days later, U.S. Sen. Susan Collins' bureau said the backing frost had been reversed.
Additionally, this week, Rep. Mary Miller, R-Ill., called connected the Trump medication to propulsion national backing from an Illinois schoolhouse territory aft 1 parent accused her 13-year-old daughter’s schoolhouse of forcing girls to alteration successful beforehand of different trans pupil successful the girl’s locker room.
UPenn has posted respective statements online arsenic the assemblage braced for cuts successful national funding. Fox News Digital reached retired to the assemblage connected Wednesday pursuing the latest reports of backing cuts.
FOX Business' Hillary Voughn contributed to this report.
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