There are fewer than 10 current trans athletes competing in women's NCAA sports who could be impacted by the Trump administration's efforts to prevent them from competing.
The Education Department announced less than 24 hours after the order's signing that it was investigating San Jose State University, the University of Pennsylvania and the Massachusetts Interscholastic Athletic Association, all of which have had Title IX violations reported against them for allowing transgender athletes to compete.
Donald Trump's Department of Education has demanded the NCAA strip transgender athletes from any women's titles or records they won after transitioning, according to an exclusive report from the Daily Caller.
Joe Biden signed an executive order on his first day in office that interpreted sex as 'gender identity' under Title IX, a move that protected transgender athletes from being discriminated against if they wanted to participate in a sport that aligned with their gender identity, not their sex assigned at birth.
Trump issued an executive order on the day his second term began that called for 'restoring biological truth to the federal government' and signed another on Wednesday titled ' Keeping Men Out of Women's Sports.
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