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Education Secretary Linda McMahon spoke with Pakinomist Digital during a tour stop during the independent woman’s forum bus tour in Santa Fe, New Mexico, Monday.
McMahon has been a key figure in the Trump administration’s mission to counter Trans Athlet -Including in Women’s and Girls Sports and instructs the Department of Education to launch several title IX studies of institutions that have enabled events to occur.
Five months after her position, McMahon has helped to lead the formation of a new federal title IX study team along with the US Ministry of Justice.
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Linda McMahon, President Donald Trump’s nominees to be Education Secretary, Witnesses during her Senate Health, Education, Work and Pension Committee’s Confirmation in Dirksen Senate Office Building on February 13, 2025 in Washington, DC (Win McNamee/Getty Images)
Meanwhile, the ongoing national cultural war is burning on the question warmer than it has ever done.
Press Secretary Karoline Leavitt and the prominent conservative influencer Riley Gaines are among them on the right, who have proposed potential criminal prosecution for officials who allow biological men to compete in women’s and girls’ sports.
The recent high school sports season has shown several cases of female athletes protesting and demonstrating against transsexual opponents, whether lost or medal podium stunts, in a growing viral trend.
Pakinomist Digital (FND): What is your attitude towards the idea of criminal prosecution coming to officials who do not enforce title IX and allow [biological] Males have to compete in girls’ sports?
McMahon: “I haven’t actually addressed it with the Ministry of Justice, but it’s certainly something that if the president wants us to investigate it, we would definitely.”
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Education Secretary Linda McMahon participates in the International Women of Courage Awards ceremony at the state department in Washington, DC, on April 1, 2025. (Brendan Smialowski/AFP via Getty Images)
FND: Going in on [the next high school sports season]How important do you think it is that athletes in high school make an effort to demonstrate against democratic state lawmakers who do not enforce title IX?
McMahon: “I think it’s very important, it’s one of the things I mentioned today when I delivered my comments to this group. I congratulated the young women for taking such a stand and I encouraged them to continue doing so.
“Because that’s what will make a difference is to have these female athletes and these girl -athletes who are really very strong and deserve the right to play in that sport of your choice, but to compete against girls because it is just an unreasonable game field otherwise.
“And they have to stand up for their own rights. And also know that we will stand behind them.”
Education Secretary Linda McMahon visits “Fox & Friends” at Pakinomist Channel Studios on March 7, 2025 in New York City. (Noam Galai/Getty Images)
FND: What can states [like California, Maine and Minnesota] Expect in the second half of the year now that we are going on four to five months since President Trump signed [Keeping Men Out of Women’s Sports] Executive Order and they still don’t follow it?
McMahon: “They risk getting their federal funding withdrawn. That’s the most important thing on the table. We have a task for the Department of Education to do with the Department of Justice to investigate violations of title IX, and that’s what we do. So the sanctions are on the table for them as we find out to be in battle.”
