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Investing.com -- The Trump administration has put a hold on $175 million in federal funding to the University of Pennsylvania (UPenn) due to its policy of including transgender athletes in women’s sports, Fox News reported. The Ivy League university could potentially lose all its federal funding if found in violation of Title IX, as reported on Wednesday.
The decision to pause the funding does not represent the entirety of federal support received by the university, which reported last year that it was around $1 billion. The $175 million is, therefore, a portion of the total federal funding UPenn receives.
The investigation into potential Title IX violations at UPenn is separate from the decision to pause federal funding. The Department of Education announced the investigation a day after the president signed the "Keeping Men Out of Women’s Sports" executive order on Feb. 5. The order does not directly link to the funding pause, but it does highlight the administration’s stance on the issue of transgender athletes in women’s sports.
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