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UPenn Bans Transgender Athletes from Women's Sport in Deal With Trump

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UPenn Bans Transgender Athletes from Women's Sport in Deal With Trump
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JUL 2
Above: The 100 Freestyle prelims at the NCAA Swimming and Diving Championships on March 19, 2022. Image copyright: Rich von Biberstein/Icon Sportswire/Getty Images
story last updated JUL 2

The Spin

Republican narrative

This settlement finally protects women's sports and restores fairness to female athletes who were robbed of their rightful achievements. Biological males have clear physical advantages that hormone therapy cannot eliminate, making competition fundamentally unfair to women who trained their entire lives for these opportunities. The Trump administration deserves credit for standing up to woke ideology and enforcing Title IX as it was originally intended — to protect women's rights in athletics.

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Democratic narrative

This agreement represents a devastating attack on transgender students and a shameful misuse of Title IX to target vulnerable communities. Penn's capitulation to political pressure abandons its commitment to inclusion and sends a harmful message that transgender athletes don't belong in sports. The real threat to women's athletics isn't transgender participation but discriminatory policies that exclude students based on fear and prejudice rather than evidence.

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Metaculus Prediction


Public Figures

Donald Trump


Political split

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