Education Department opens Title IX probes following anti-trans order
Natalie Schwartz
February 6, 2025
The agency said it is investigating San José State University, the University of Pennsylvania and a middle and high school athletics association.
Dive Brief:
The U.S. Department of Education opened Title IX investigations Thursday into two universities and a middle and high school athletics association that it says have allowed transgender women and girls to participate on teams corresponding with their gender identity.
The agency’s Office for Civil Rights is investigating San José State University, the University of Pennsylvania and the Massachusetts Interscholastic Athletic Association. OCR is also reviewing athletics participation policies at “a number of schools.”
The investigations come just one day after President Donald Trump signed an executive order barring transgender women from playing on women’s sports teams and threatening to pull federal funding from educational institutions that don’t comply.
