EXCLUSIVE: President Donald Trump’s Department of Education (DOE) launched a study of potential violations of title IX, which took place at several educational institutions, hours after signing an executive order to ban trans athletes from women’s sports.
The department’s Office of Civil Rights (OCR) examines San Jose State University, University of Pennsylvania and Massachusetts Interscholastic Athletic Association (MiaA) for separate events involving trans athletes competing on a woman’s or girls’ sports team.
“According to President Trumps to keep men out of women’s sports order yesterday, the US Ministry of Education today announced studies of two educational institutions and an athletic association in which violations of title IX are reported,” Read a statement from Doe only delivered to Pakinomist Digital.
“President Trump’s executive order ‘Keeping men out of women’s sports’ is a promise to women and girls: This administration will not tolerate the abuse of female athletes.”
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President Donald Trump signs no men in women’s sports -executing orders in the law of the eastern space of the White House in Washington, DC, on February 5, 2025. (Andrew Caballero-Reynolds / AFP)
The events in San Jose State and Upenn were broadly published controversy that resulted in several litigation.
In Upenn, Transgender Swimmer Lia Thomas was allowed to compete for the women’s swim team after previously competing for the school’s men’s team. Thomas continued to break more women’s records and won several events at the 2022 Ivy League Championships and NCAA championships.
Former Upenn swimmer Paula Scanlan, who had to share a dressing room with Thomas, made a statement to Pakinomist Digital thanks to DOE for his upcoming study.
“I am deeply grateful to the Department of Education for having addressed violation of title IX regarding female athletes with such seriousness. As a former University of Pennsylvania swimmer who was forced to compete against and share a dressing room with a male athlete, I see until those who hold responsible for the higher education institutions that promoted this, “Scanlan said.
A lawsuit filed by three other former Upenn -Winders’ swimmers claims the university administrators and women’s swim coach Mike Schnur mislead the players about whether Thomas would share a dressing room with them. The three women also claim that the school pushed Pro-Trans ideology to them during the process of accepting Thomas on the team, and they were led to feeling that their concerns about being teammates with a biological man were rooted in a “psychological problem.”
“The Upenn administrators told the women that if anyone struggled to accept Thomas’ participation in Upenn Women’s team, they should seek advice and support from Caps and LBGTQ Center,” the trial claims.
“The administrators also invited the women to a speech entitled ‘Trans 101.’ Thus, the women were led to understanding that Upenn’s attitude was that if a woman on the team had some problem with a transidentifying man who was on his team that the woman had a psychological problem and needed advice.
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Former University of Kentucky Swimmer and current Conservative activist Riley Gaines has also brought a lawsuit against NCAA for her current gender identity policies on her experience to compete with Thomas at the 2022 NCAA championships. Several other women who are influenced by Trans -Inclusion have joined Gaines’ lawsuit.
Pakinomist Digital has reached Upenn to comment.
In San Jose State, the transient volleyball player Blaire Fleming played three seasons on the women’s team from 2022-24, as one of Mountain West’s Top Hiters, who led the team in Kills. However, unlike Upenn’s handling of Thomas, SJSU managers allegedly detained the truth about Fleming’s birth sex from the other female players on the team, according to a trial filed by 11 Mountain West -Volleyball players and a former SJSU assistant coach.
Former Spartans Co-captain Brooke Slusser leads this trial and is also a plaintiff in Gaines’ lawsuit against NCAA. Slutser claims that San Jose State administrators and volleyball trainer Todd Kress actively prevented her from knowing Fleming’s birth sex while assigning her to share bedrooms with the trans athlete on most road trips during their first season together in 2023.
Slusser’s lawsuit against Mountain West also claims that Fleming conspired with an opponent on another team to get slushes connected to the face during a match on October 3rd.
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The controversy involving Fleming caused five of Sjsus opponents in 2024 to lose a total of eight games. The last forfeiture was Mountain West Tournament semi -final against Boise State, who had already lost twice to the Spartans during the regular season.
This forfeiture sent Fleming, Slusser and SJSU to the conference final, where they lost against Colorado State. The applicants in Slusser’s trial filed an emergency in November before the tournament in an attempt to get Fleming removed from competition and all losses by perdition wiped from their opponent’s records. However, federal judge Kato Crews, who was appointed by then -President Joe Biden in January 2024, ruled to let Fleming play.
Pakinomist Digital has reached San Jose State for comment.
The situation involving MIAA took place in February 2024 when a trans athlete for the Kipp Academy Lynn Girl’s basketball team caused female players for Collegiate Charter School of Lowell. Collegiate Charter had to perish the game at the break to be the players’ well -being.
Miaa’s Handbook says a “Student should not be excluded from participation in a gender -specific sports team that is in line with the student’s bona fide gender identity.”
Pakinomist Digital has reached Miaa and Kipp Academy for comment.
Now all three of these institutions are facing a study by Trump’s Doe.

President Donald Trump’s Department of Education launched a study of potential violations of title IX, which took place at several educational institutions, hours after he signed an executive order to ban trans athletes from women’s sports. (Getty Images)
In addition, OCR will actively review athletic participation policies in a number of schools to evaluate their adaptation to section IX protection for female athletes, sources of Pakinomist told Digital.
Last week, DOE informed K-12 schools and higher education institutions on a return to enforcing title IX protection on the basis of biological sex.
NCAA has already suggested that it will capitulate to Trump’s order.
NCAA President Charlie Baker responded to the executive order in a statement and said it gave a “clear, national standard” and the NCAA board would review it and take steps to adapt the organization’s policy in the coming days.