The president of the United States, Donald Trump, continues with a firm step in his idea of ending the inclusion of trans athletes in women’s sports. The last measure you have taken is The blockade of 175 million dollars in federal funds for the University of Pennsylvania (UPENN)with which the swimmer Lía Thomas competed.
The University Center belonging to the IVY League could lose all its federal financing in the framework of an investigation for potential violations of Title IX, a historic Federal Civil Rights Law approved in 1972 and that prohibits discrimination due to sex in any school or educational program that receives federal funds.
Each administration has the power to interpret this legislation. Trump and other detractors of the participation of transgender athletes in female competitions argue that eThis athletes have an unfair advantage.
For that reason, at the beginning of February he signed an executive order aimed at fulfilling one of its main campaign promises: prohibit transgender women from competing in women’s sports.
The University of Pennsylvania He received about 1,000 million dollars last year in federal funds last year. They are also investigated for possible violations of the title IX the San Jose State University and the Massachusetts Interscholatic Athletic Association, but the freezing of those 175 million, according to Fox News, is not a direct consequence of those investigations.
The reason why Donald Trump would have made this decision is because it is the university that monopolized headlines in 2022 when the trans swimmer Lia Thomas, who had previously competed for three years like Will Thomas, was part of the women’s team.
The athlete became the first transgender person to win a national championship by completing the 500 yards (457 meters) in freestyle swimming in 4 minutes and 33.24 seconds.
Trump has also spoken against the transgender in the army, considering that military service must be reserved for those “Mentally and physically suitable for duty”but a judge blocked that executive order last Tuesday.
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