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The Trump administration has frozen $175 million in federal funding to the University of Pennsylvania over its policies allowing trans women to compete in women's sports.

A senior official said this is "just a taste" of further action, with UPenn at risk of losing all federal funding due to a Title IX investigation.

Trump signed an executive order on February 5 banning trans women from women's sports, citing fairness and safety concerns.

Advocacy groups are challenging the move, arguing it discriminates against trans athletes.

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[–] icmpecho@lemmy.ml 5 points 10 hours ago

this admin hating on trans women and banning them from competing in sports while entirely overlooking trans men on testosterone who, given the legislative focus on transfem people, could still compete in women's sports (theoretically) while on testosterone underscores how fucking little this admin knows about how this actually works scientifically.

after all why wouldn't "women pretending to be men" be taking testosterone and competing and dominating in sports if that's what this is all about?

[–] tiefling@lemmy.blahaj.zone 4 points 18 hours ago* (last edited 18 hours ago) (1 children)

I bet you Trump can't name 10 trans women (hell, make it 5 for easy mode)

[–] KneeTitts@lemmy.world 6 points 18 hours ago

I think its a solid question to ask, does trump do anything besides think about other peoples junk?

[–] halfempty@fedia.io 77 points 1 day ago (1 children)

The real agenda is to bring down higher education in general. The whole Trans athletes thing is a smokescreen. The fascists consider higher education to be a stronghold of woke liberalism. If if weren't trans athletes, it would be some other excuse to make the cuts.

[–] A_Random_Idiot@lemmy.world 17 points 1 day ago

a bunch of college educated fascists have convinced low education whites that education is evil and they should abhor getting an education when they are perfectly fine doing physical labor.

and totally not because they don't want the poors to get educated and realized how fascist they are.

[–] Nightwingdragon@lemmy.world 46 points 1 day ago (43 children)

So universities are about to go 0-2 in the fight against a Trump takeover.

Columbia bent the knee almost immediately. It'll be interesting to see how long UPenn holds out.

[–] Dagwood222@lemm.ee 40 points 1 day ago (2 children)

Just pointing out that UPenn is his alma mater. He went to the Warton School of Business and one of his professors called Trump the dumbest student he ever had.

[–] jacksilver@lemmy.world 5 points 17 hours ago

They should rescind his degree.

[–] Nightwingdragon@lemmy.world 19 points 1 day ago (1 children)

Well that probably explains why he decided to randomly pick on UPenn. He doesn't care about the trans athletes. His fee-fees were hurt.

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[–] PowerCrazy@lemmy.ml 8 points 1 day ago* (last edited 1 day ago)

Columbia bent the knee

Why do you think that Columbia was "fighting" trump in the first place. They had been trying to deport and ban criticism of Israel for decades, they finally had the opportunity and they are glad of it.

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[–] wanderwisley@lemm.ee 25 points 1 day ago

Remind me again of how many transgender college students have recently been arrested for having sex with a minor?

[–] lorski@sopuli.xyz 35 points 2 days ago (4 children)
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