The funding freeze relates to University of Pennsylvania policies on allowing trans women to compete in women's sports.

Summary

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.

    • Waldowal@lemmy.world
      162·
      3 days ago

      All you have to do is make a life altering choice, be ridiculed by half of society in your most formative years, take drugs that forever reshape your body, and YOU TOO CAN WIN AT SWIMMING!

      • OffColor@sh.itjust.works
        59·
        3 days ago

        The previous poster did not disparage our trans friends in any way. This particular issue is very complex. It is undeniable that people born male have a natural advantage in virtually every physical activity. In any physical competition where winning is incentivized (such as college athletics where the reward could be scholarships and potential NIL deals), there has to be a discussion.

        All that being said, the number of trans athletes competing at a collegiate level is so small that the withholding of funds is just an outright attack on the trans community and has nothing to do with an earnest discussion about the ethics of female identifying trans competing in women restricted events.

        • tree_frog@lemm.eeEnglish
          2·
          1 day ago

          You may want to double check your claim that it’s undeniable that I have an advantage over cis women.

          I have like a magnitude of order less testosterone than my girlfriend. And if I had been put on puberty blockers I wouldn’t have benefited from any of the physical development of testosterone.

          In 9 months I’ve lost 20 lb of muscle mass. Yet I still have a large frame to carry around.

          Additionally, they found that some Olympic level cis women have more testosterone than some of the Olympic level cis men.

          So, it is a lot more nuanced than the right is making it out to be. And if you want to make claims like this, you need to prove that trans women are a demonstratable harm to cis women. Not the other way around.

          And yes, they did disparage me. I am not a man. Though I was assigned male at birth.

        • taipan@lemmy.worldEnglish
          8·
          2 days ago

          Trans women are women. The poster made a transphobic comment by falsely referring to trans women as “men”, which obviously disparages trans women.

        • madcaesar@lemmy.world
          110·
          3 days ago

          Yep, Trump is a piece of shit, but this issue is complex and there are no easy answers. It should have zero impact on funding that’s just Trump being a bag of dicks.

          • A_Random_Idiot@lemmy.worldEnglish
            111·
            3 days ago

            Its such a complex issue that scientists have already answered it multiple times, and that no trans athlete is dominating their sport as further proof.

            But we cant let that get in the way of trying to put on a big show of fake and reasonable sounding concern trolling about the issue just like the right wingers do.