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Trump administration pauses $175m in funds to UPenn over trans athlete policy

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The University of Pennsylvania campus in Philadelphia, Pennsylvania, on 8 December 2023. Photograph: Bloomberg/Getty Images

The Trump administration has paused $175m in federal funding to the University of Pennsylvania over its inclusion of transgender athletes in women’s college sports.

Citing an unnamed “senior administration official”, Fox Business said the pause was “not a direct result” of a Title IX investigation into the University of Pennsylvania’s transgender athletes policy that was announced by the federal Department of Education in February.

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