MicroWaveMar 19, 2025

Trump freezes $175M of UPenn funds over trans women

https://lemmy.world/post/27053312

Trump freezes $175M of UPenn funds over trans women - Lemmy.World

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.

Show thread1984Mar 19, 2025
This is the ONLY thing i agree with Trump on - dont allow men to compete in women sports just because they identify as women.
Show threadWaldowal
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!
Mar 19, 2025 at 9:43pmWeb
Show threadOffColorMar 19, 2025

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.

Show threadmadcaesarMar 19, 2025
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.
Show threadA_Random_IdiotMar 19, 2025

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.

Show threadmadcaesarMar 19, 2025
You seem very reasonable and stable
Show threadtaipanMar 20, 2025
Trans women are women. The poster made a transphobic comment by falsely referring to trans women as “men”, which obviously disparages trans women.
Show threadtree_frogMar 21, 2025
I’m not a man. So yes, they absolutely did disparage me.
Show threadtree_frogMar 21, 2025

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

I produce 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.

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

If you want to make claims like this, you need to prove that trans women are a demonstratable harm to cis women…

And just claiming that it’s undeniable is not proof. Prove it.

Show thread1984Mar 20, 2025

Its a shitty deal, sure. But what if you are a born a woman, you spend all those years training to be a professional athlete, then some man comes along (identifying as a woman) and crushes all your records by being so much stronger there is no way you can ever reach that level

The physical differences between genders dont disappear just because you identify as the other gender. You will always be stronger as a physical man athlete.

That is why its very unfair and 100% must not be allowed.

A separate trans level of the sports would be much more appropriate.