Trump is freezing $175 million in funding to the University of Pennsylvania in an effort to further vilify transgender athletes.
“Promises made, promises kept,” the White House said in an X post on Wednesday, sharing a Fox Business report on the news.
“President Trump has promised to protect female athletes. He has threatened to rip federal funding away from any university that defies his executive order banning biological males from infiltrating women’s sports, and he is doing it,” a Fox Business contributor said. “We are the first to report that President Trump has paused $175 million in federal funding from the University of Pennsylvania over its controversial policies.”
A senior Trump official told Fox Business that “this is just a taste of what could be coming down the pipe for Penn.”
Trump’s Education Department opened up a Title IX investigation into Penn earlier this month because Penn had a trans woman, Lia Thomas, on its swim team in 2021. The National Collegiate Athletic Association announced its trans ban shortly afterward. Three of Thomas’s former teammates also filed a separate lawsuit citing Title IX violations.
The Trump administration also recently cut $400 million in funding from Columbia University over allegations of antisemitism.
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