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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.

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[–] foggy@lemmy.world 4 points 5 hours ago* (last edited 5 hours ago) (9 children)

False. They need grants, which are totally separate from this.

Source: academia.

UPenn is not going to feel this.

At all.

[–] Nightwingdragon@lemmy.world 8 points 5 hours ago (7 children)

People said the same thing about Columbia. Took them days before they bent the knee.

[–] Lasherz12@lemmy.world 2 points 4 hours ago (4 children)

As someone who just lost a coworker to Upenn, their endowment is pretty massive. If it only takes 175m to change their policy on a deeply held belief, then it will be a massive stain followed by mass protests.

[–] Nightwingdragon@lemmy.world 5 points 4 hours ago (3 children)

Again, people thought the same about Columbia. $400 million vs. an endowment of just shy of $15 billion. Shouldn't have been enough to change their policy on deeply held beliefs either but Columbia couldn't bend the knee and start rescinding protestors' diplomas and kowtowing to Trump fast enough.

[–] Lasherz12@lemmy.world 2 points 2 hours ago

You may be correct. I hope you're not.

[–] foggy@lemmy.world 1 points 4 hours ago

Again, Columbia has had ties to Israel since forever.

[–] Zaktor@sopuli.xyz 1 points 5 minutes ago

I think there's a good argument that Colombia wasn't changing a deeply held belief. They were looking for reasons to punch the hippies who were angering their donors right from the start.

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