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Trump freezes $175M of UPenn funds over trans women

www.newsweek.com

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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- 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!
  
  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.
  
  Trans women are women. The poster made a transphobic comment by falsely referring to trans women as "men", which obviously disparages trans women.
  
  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.
  
  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.
  
  You seem very reasonable and stable

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