Secretary McMahon Remarks on UPenn Resolution Agreement

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Good afternoon, everybody. Thank you for joining us today for this major announcementโ€”a turning point in our fight to defend womenโ€™s sports from radical gender ideology.

The women joining us today, including Paula Scanlan and Riley Gaines, have been incredible voicesโ€”working so hard on behalf of the female athletes who will come after them.

So itโ€™s appropriate that todayโ€™s announcement is a Resolution Agreement on Title IX and womenโ€™s rights with the University of Pennsylvania, where Paula and Rileyโ€™s fight began.

President Trump has shown leadership on this issue from Day One. He declared โ€œNo Men in Womenโ€™s Sportsโ€ as an early Administration priority.

Now UPenn, one of the most well-known offenders of Title IX, has agreed to change its athletics policy to ensure that no female athlete will ever compete against, or suffer the indignity of being forced to share an intimate facility with, a biological male. 

Not only that โ€“ the university will be sending a personal apology to every female athlete who was forced to compete against a man. They will also be removing all records set by a man in a womenโ€™s sports competition.

This is a major accomplishment and a milestone in our fight to restore sanity, fairness, and integrity to womenโ€™s sports.

The idea of keeping men out of womenโ€™s sports is a simple one. Itโ€™s based in common sense. But the fight to achieve this victory has not been easy or simple.

The day after President Trump signed his historic Executive Order, my Department launched a civil rights investigation into UPenn, and ultimately found it in violation of federal law. 

We were clear in telling UPenn that allowing men to claim they are women, so they can invade womenโ€™s locker rooms and compete against them in sports, was neither fair nor safe.

We told them that institutions that violate federal civil rights law could lose their federal funding. We went a step further and froze over a hundred million dollars in federal grants to show just how seriously this Administration takes Title IX enforcement.

So UPenn came back to the table and asked us what they can do to make it right.

We said, โ€œYou have to completely rewrite your institutional policy.โ€

They signed on the dotted line.

We said, โ€œYou have to take these steps with records and reporting so this never happens again.โ€

They signed on the dotted line.

We said โ€œyou owe Paula, Riley, and the other female athletes youโ€™ve wronged a formal written apology. On Penn letterhead. In 10 business days.โ€

Even that provision made it into the agreement.

And, to Pennโ€™s credit, despite the screeching of radical gende rideologues, it recognized the harm caused to these excellent female athletes and now seeks to make amends.

For the awareness of others, let me be clear: Putting men in womenโ€™s intimate spaces is not safe or reasonable. Putting them up against women in physical competition against women is not fair.

America knows itโ€™s not fair. Even Gavin Newsom, who has held himself out as the champion of the radical gender ideology movement, knows itโ€™s not fair. But gender ideology and its extremist supporters have intimidated many peopleโ€”who know betterโ€”into silence about that biological fact.

Today, weโ€™re grateful that it did not keep Riley quiet. It did not keep Paula quiet. It did not keep parents or students across the country quiet. And it did not keep Donald Trump quiet.

We applaud UPennโ€™s decision, and we advise every institution that is currently violating womenโ€™s rights under Title IX to follow suitโ€”not just in college sports, but in K-12 and every other institution covered by Title IX.

Because not only is the law clear, but so is common sense. We all want whatโ€™s safe and fair for our women and girls. And this Administration will do whatever it takes to fight for them.

Thank you. 

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