WASHINGTON (AP) — The Trump administration has suspended roughly $175 million in federal funding for the College of Pennsylvania over the participation of a transgender athlete in its swimming program, the White Home stated Wednesday.
The Ivy League faculty has been going through an Education Department investigation specializing in in its swimming program. That inquiry was introduced final month instantly after President Donald Trump signed an executive order supposed to ban transgender athletes from competing in women and girls’s sports activities.
However the federal cash was suspended in a separate evaluate of discretionary federal cash going to universities, the White Home stated. The cash that was paused got here from the Protection Division and the Division of Well being and Human Providers.
A Penn spokesperson stated the varsity had not obtained any notification or particulars of the motion.
“It is very important observe, nonetheless, that Penn has at all times adopted NCAA and Ivy League insurance policies relating to pupil participation on athletic groups,” spokesperson Ron Ozio stated. “Now we have been prior to now, and stay at this time, in full compliance with the rules that apply to not solely Penn, however all of our NCAA and Ivy League peer establishments.”
The investigation opened by the Training Division’s Workplace for Civil Rights at Penn focuses on Lia Thomas, who swam on the varsity’s girls’s workforce and was the primary overtly transgender athlete to win a Division I title in 2022.
The company additionally opened evaluations of San Jose State University volleyball and the Massachusetts Interscholastic Athletic Affiliation.
