Sec Mcmahon Opens Up On Historic Upenn Title Ix Agreement And Next Steps In Fight To Save Women's Sports

U.S. Education Secretary Linda McMahon unveiled arguably nan biggest measurement yet successful President Donald Trump's ngo to combat trans inclusion successful women's sports connected Tuesday. 

The announcement that nan University of Pennsylvania had travel to a resolution pinch nan management complete its handling of nan Lia Thomas business years agone closed a contention that ignited a taste statement erstwhile Thomas competed successful nan NCAA women's swimming title successful 2022. 

University of Pennsylvania swimmer Lia Thomas, left, and Kentucky swimmer Riley Gaines respond aft finishing tied for 5th successful nan 200 Freestyle finals astatine nan NCAA Swimming and Diving Championships connected March 18, 2022 astatine nan McAuley Aquatic Center successful Atlanta. (Rich von Biberstein/Icon Sportswire via Getty Images)

The Thomas saga astatine nan 2022 NCAA championships is mostly considered a taste turning constituent successful nan nationalist statement complete transgender athletes successful women's sports. At nan time, existent salient blimpish activistic Riley Gaines was conscionable a dental student who had to settee for a necktie pinch Thomas successful 1 of nan NCAA title events. 

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McMahon followed nan business done nan news that year. 

"The first point erstwhile I looked and saw nan quality successful size betwixt Riley Gaines and Lia Thomas, I said, ‘oh my gosh, this is conscionable wholly unfair,'" McMahon told Fox News Digital, recalling erstwhile Gaines infamously tied Thomas successful that year’s competition. "To think, fixed each that, she tied, which is amazing, but it was conscionable wholly unfair. She should person walked distant pinch that, coming successful intelligibly for nan 5th place, and that conscionable didn't happen." 

McMahon said she hopes that Tuesday's announcement sends a connection to different girls successful precocious schoolhouse and assemblage crossed nan country. 

"I deliberation those girls, hopefully they will look astatine Riley and Paula [Scanlan] and others arsenic existent domiciled models and springiness them nan spot to guidelines up," McMahon said. 

The section antecedently launched an investigation into UPenn connected Feb. 6. The Trump management later froze $175 cardinal successful backing for nan schoolhouse connected March 20. Then, connected April 28, nan Education Department's Office of Civil Rights announced its investigation concluded that UPenn did break Title IX successful its handling of nan Thomas situation.

Now, UPenn has agreed to instrumentality a strict argumentation keeping trans athletes retired of women's sports and rumor apologies to each nan women who person been impacted.

However, McMahon's activity doesn't extremity pinch UPenn. The Department of Education and different branches of Trump's management are fighting nan rumor connected aggregate fronts, pinch an progressive suit against nan authorities of Maine for refusing to comply pinch Trump's instruction connected nan issue. The management is besides successful a standoff pinch California and Minnesota complete nan issue, arsenic good arsenic those states that person aggressively defied Trump's instruction connected nan issue. 

McMahon hopes UPenn's statement sends a connection to those states.

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Former NCAA Division 1 swimmer Paula Scanlan testifies earlier nan House Judiciary Subcommittee connected nan Constitution and Limited Government. (C-SPAN)

"Our sincere dream is that they perfectly admit what they're going to person to do comparative to comply pinch Title IX. It is nan law," McMahon said. "There are national costs that person been withheld and withdrawn, truthful there's penalties progressive successful this. But it's really conscionable nan correct point to do, it's communal consciousness to do, that men should not compete successful women's sports." 

On nan aforesaid time that McMahon's section announced its investigation against UPenn, it besides announced an investigation against San Jose State University for its handling of erstwhile transgender volleyball subordinate Blaire Fleming. The business involving Fleming culminated successful a nationally-publicized ungraded successful nan 2024 autumn season, which included aggregate lawsuits by San Jose State and different Mountain West volleyball players. 

Recently, Fox News Digital reported that nan Mountain West Conference hired nan aforesaid rule patient to analyse nan trans athlete's misconduct allegations that nan convention was utilizing to take sides nan athlete's eligibility for nan convention tourney successful court. 

Fox News Digital reported connected June 24 that nan Mountain West had hired nan patient Willkie Farr & Gallagher to analyse allegations against Fleming of colluding pinch an force to person teammate Brooke Slusser harmed during an Oct. 3 game. 

Mountain West hired nan patient to grip nan investigation successful nan aforesaid period that nan aforesaid patient represented nan convention to protect Fleming's eligibility successful a petition for a preliminary injunction to person nan trans jock disqualified from women's title and nan convention tournament.  

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Blaire Fleming of nan San Jose State Spartans looks connected during nan 2nd group against nan Air Force Falcons astatine Falcon Court astatine East Gym connected Oct. 19, 2024 successful Colorado Springs, Colorado. (Andrew Wevers/Getty Images)

Now, pinch nan UPenn business resolved, McMahon will proceed moving to reside nan SJSU investigation. 

"Our investigation will continue," McMahon said of nan processing business pinch SJSU. 

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