LGBTQ, the legal group slamming upenn to ‘give in’ for the prohibition of Trans Trump athletes

The University of Pennsylvania’s decision to prohibit transgender female athletes from competing in women’s sports to resolve the complaints of civil rights by the Ministry of Education is being slammed by LGBTQ activists and legal experts as non -constitutional.

Trump’s administration announced this week that the Ivy League school had agreed to attend the interpretation of the Ministry of Education regarding the title IX, the Civil Rights Law which prohibited sex-based discrimination in the education program and activities that received federal financial assistance.

The previous administration had suspended $ 175 million in the federal contract given to Penn, quoting Lia Thomas’s open transgender athletes in the women’s swimming team during the 2021-2022 season.

“This is embarrassing, dangerous, and wrong. I think they made a huge mistake that they would regret it,” Shannon Minter, Director of Law for the National Center for LGBTQ rights, told ABC News. “This is a strange behavior, and it seems embarrassing that the university that is so strong and respected only surrender in this cruel and unpleasant position.”

Minter added, “I think extortion is an excellent metaphor for what is happening here. This is a federal government that threatens to withstand funds if the university does not agree to take a position.”

‘Legally it doesn’t make sense’

As part of the agreement, Penn will comply with two executive orders of President Donald Trump who according to the White House defend women from “Gender Ideology Extremism.”

The university is also required to disarm Thomas from his swimming award, including his victory in 500 freestyle in swimming Division I 2022 NCAA & Diving championship, and send an apology to the female swimmer who competed against Thomas.

The school also agreed to maintain the bathroom of students and access rooms strictly separately based on sex.

“Legally, it doesn’t make sense,” Minter said. “I mean, Trump’s administrative position is that the penn has somehow doing something wrong by attending the laws recognized as laws by the Federal Court and by the Department of Education and the Department of Justice at a relevant time, and they comply with NCAA policies.

When asked to comment, the university directed ABC news to a letter to the school community by the President of the University of Pennsylvania Dr. J. Larry Jameson.

In the letter, Jameson said “University’s commitment to ensure a respectful and friendly environment for all our students is not shaken.”

The letter was added: “At the same time, we must comply with federal requirements, including executive orders, and NCAA feasibility rules, so that our teams and athletes can be involved in sports between competitive tertiary institutions.”

White House: ‘Common-sense’ victory

The Secretary of the US Education Linda McMahon praised Penn’s decision as a “common sense” victory for women and girls.

“Thanks to the leadership of President Trump, Upenn has agreed to apologize for violating the title IX of his past and to ensure that women’s sports are protected in universities for the future generations of female athletes,” McMahon said In a statement.

During his presidency, Trump promised to get “transgender madness out of our school” and “Keep men from women’s sports.”

“This administration not only pays lip services for women’s equality: with enthusiasm confirming the equality that is upheld,” Riley Gaines, a former swimmer of Kentucky University, who was bound by Thomas for the fifth place in 200 freestyle in the NCAA 2022 championship, said in a statement about UPNN’s decision.

Gaines said he hoped that Penn’s decision would encourage other educational institutions to refrain from violating female civil rights, and “renewing every female athlete that their country’s highest leadership would not succumb until they had the dignity, safety and justice that they deserve to get.”

In a Interview 2022 With ABC “Good Morning America,” Thomas, who initially competed in the Penn men’s swimming team, denied that he had an unfair advantage over the swimmer born as a woman.

“There are many factors that are competing and how well you and the biggest change for me is that I am happy, and the second year, where I have the best time to compete with men, I am miserable,” Thomas told GMA. “So, after that it was raised very relieved and allowed me to put all me in training, becoming racing. Trans people did not switch to athletics. We are transitioning to be happy and authentic and our true self.”

Minter said “surprisingly” that the Penn will agree on a low tide for a sentence of something valid at that time.

“In my view, it is still valid. The only thing that has changed is that administration has taken a different view,” Minter said. “This is only a classic intimidation, intimidation and harassment. It is very sad to see universities like the Just Knuckle Penn below, I am sure with the hope that they will not be targeted further if they do it. This is an embarrassing day for the university, for our country.”

Minter said he was sure that the Penn agreement opened the university to “all types of accountability” to move forward.

“They have now stated in public that they break the law, and what should stop all other types of third parties to return and sue them now and say, ‘Well, you have acknowledged that what you do is violate the law.’ I mean, no, but they now say that and so they create accountability for themselves, “said Minter.

The Supreme Court to hear the case of trans athletes

Naiymah Sanchez, senior organizer for the American Civil Liberties Union of Pennsylvania, told ABC News that he was worried that another university was subject to the investigation of the Civil Rights of the Department of Education would follow in the footsteps of the penn.

“The anti-trans movement allows the development of power among fools because they do not know and people who feel that we can erase these people, we will have a better life,” Sanchez said. “There is nothing done by the University of Pennsylvania who violates the law. That follows the standard guidelines.”

State ban on transgender students participating in the sport of girls and girls has become a flame point throughout the country.

On Thursday, the US Supreme Court announced that he would hear the appeal from the two states who wanted to enforce the law.

Cases from West Virginia and Idaho – which will be scheduled for the next term of office argument in the fall – will decide whether the constitution and civil rights prohibit prohibitions based on the sex of athletes assigned at birth.

Lower courts in these cases in favor of student athletes in finding state laws violates the protection clause equivalent to the 14th amendment or title IX of the Civil Rights Law.

The decision to hear these cases follows the decision of the majority of the court of the court last month to uphold the state ban on medical treatment which confirms gender for transgender children. Chief Judge John Roberts said that the law did not violate the 14th amendment or discriminated against sex, although the same medical treatment was widely available for minors of Cisgender.

Sanchez noted that in 2024, NCAA President Charlie Baker at the time, former Governor of the Republic of Massachusetts, testified at the Senate Justice Committee who heard that out of more than 500,000 student athletes competing at the college level, less than 10 were transgender.

“As a trans person, we try not to be too emotionally bound to the problems that occur, even if we are not people who are rejected,” Sanchez said. “But the reality is that the new government entered and they set their targets for certain things. They chased the easiest fruit in trees. But this is not just about choosing the easiest fruit in a tree, this is about pulling out the entire tree.”