The funding freeze relates to University of Pennsylvania policies on allowing trans women to compete in women's sports.

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.

  • tree_frog@lemm.eeEnglish
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    2 days ago

    You may want to double check your claim that it’s undeniable that I have an advantage over cis women.

    I have like a magnitude of order less testosterone than my girlfriend. And if I had been put on puberty blockers I wouldn’t have benefited from any of the physical development of testosterone.

    In 9 months I’ve lost 20 lb of muscle mass. Yet I still have a large frame to carry around.

    Additionally, they found that some Olympic level cis women have more testosterone than some of the Olympic level cis men.

    So, it is a lot more nuanced than the right is making it out to be. And if you want to make claims like this, you need to prove that trans women are a demonstratable harm to cis women. Not the other way around.

    And yes, they did disparage me. I am not a man. Though I was assigned male at birth.