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FIRST ON FOX: The U.S. Department of Education (ED) is celebrating 1 twelvemonth of its conflict to support biologic males retired of women's and girls' sports.
Just complete 13 months aft President Donald Trump signed nan "Keeping Men Out of Women's Sports" executive order, ED is touting its victories successful enforcing that executive order, and respective different education-based initiatives nether Trump, which will beryllium celebrated passim nan week.
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U.S. President Donald Trump signs nan "No Men successful Women’s Sports" executive bid successful nan East Room astatine nan White House connected Feb. 5, 2025 successful Washington, DC. (Andrew Harnik/Getty Images)
"Just complete a twelvemonth ago, we saw men claiming victories successful women’s athletics. Colleges and universities were focused much connected diversity, equity, and inclusion than ensuring graduates were prepared for occurrence successful life aft graduation. Institutions required DEI statements from module and held segregated affinity graduation ceremonies for students," Ed said successful a connection provided to Fox News Digital.
"Academic standards fell, admissions were skewed to favour title complete merit, and students graduated pinch a monolithic heap of indebtedness and degrees that led to nary occupation prospects. Today, institutions of higher acquisition are changing nan crippled because President Trump is bringing backmost America’s Golden Age — shifting nan civilization and restoring our nation’s institutions to greatness."
Since Trump's women's sports executive bid past February, respective states and institutions person amended their policies to guarantee only female athletes tin compete successful nan women's category. This includes nan governing assemblage for American assemblage sports, nan NCAA, and nan United States Olympic and Paralympic Committee (USOPC).
Meanwhile, nan University of Pennsylvania and Wagner College entered into resolution agreements pinch ED to resoluteness erstwhile Title IX violations related to trans athletes connected UPenn's women's aquatics squad and Wagner's women's fencing team.
Additionally, Harvard removed its anterior transgender inclusion policy from nan assemblage handbook aft nan NCAA updated its argumentation and Trinity University publicly updated its transgender information argumentation for intercollegiate athletics successful March 2025, restricting title successful women’s sports to student-athletes assigned female astatine birth.
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"Thanks to nan Trump Administration, collegiate female athletes tin erstwhile again compete connected an moreover playing section and stock locker rooms based connected biologic sex," ED said.
The management is still continuing its crackdown connected different entities that haven't afloat complied yet.
The U.S. Department of Justice (DOJ) is engaged successful lawsuits against state agencies successful Maine and California aft some states refused to comply pinch Trump, and proceed to fto antheral athletes successful girls' precocious schoolhouse sports.
ED is successful a standoff pinch San Jose State University aft nan assemblage declined to resoluteness alleged Title IX violations for its handling of a transgender erstwhile volleyball player. SJSU and nan California State University strategy decided to alternatively writer nan Trump management successful an effort to debar penalties for its alleged violation.
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But Education Secretary Linda McMahon has affirmed that SJSU will not beryllium led disconnected nan hook, and has fixed nan schoolhouse an ultimatum to resoluteness its alleged violations by nan extremity of nan period aliases consequence national backing cuts and a referal to nan DOJ.
ED besides has investigations opened into respective different entities crossed nan country, including school districts successful Colorado, New York, circumstantial districts successful California, and nan University of Nevada, Reno.
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Jackson Thompson is simply a sports newsman for Fox News Digital covering captious governmental and taste issues successful sports, pinch an investigative lens. Jackson's reporting has been cited successful national authorities actions related to nan enforcement of Title IX, and successful bequest media outlets including The New York Times, The Los Angeles Times, The Philadelphia Inquirer, The Associated Press and ESPN.com.
