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 Schooling Division investigation specializing in in its swimming program. That inquiry was introduced final month instantly after President Donald Trump signed an govt order supposed to ban transgender athletes from competing in women and girls’s sports activities.
However the federal cash was suspended in a separate assessment 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 acquired any notification or particulars of the motion.
“It is important to note, however, that Penn has always followed NCAA and Ivy League policies regarding student participation on athletic teams,” spokesperson Ron Ozio stated. “We have been in the past, and remain today, in full compliance with the regulations that apply to not only Penn, but all of our NCAA and Ivy League peer institutions.”
The investigation opened by the Schooling Division’s Workplace for Civil Rights at Penn focuses on Lia Thomas, who swam on the varsity’s girls’s group and was the primary overtly transgender athlete to win a Division I title in 2022.
The company additionally opened evaluations of San Jose State College volleyball and the Massachusetts Interscholastic Athletic Affiliation.
This story was initially featured on Fortune.com
