Trump Education Dept to probe SJSU, UPenn for potential Title IX violations after trans athlete scandals

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EXCLUSIVE: President Donald Trump's Department of Education (DOE) launched an investigation into potential Title IX violations that occurred at multiple educational institutions, hours after he signed an executive order to ban trans athletes from women's sports. 

The Department’s Office of Civil Rights (OCR) will be investigating San Jose State University, the University of Pennsylvania and the Massachusetts Interscholastic Athletic Association (MIAA) for separate incidents involving trans athletes competing on a women's or girls' sports team. 

"Pursuant to President Trump’s Keeping Men Out of Women’s Sports Executive Order yesterday, the U.S. Department of Education today announced investigations into two educational institutions and an athletic association where violations of Title IX have been reported," read a statement from the DOE provided exclusively to Fox News 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 mistreatment of female athletes." 

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President Donald Trump signs the No Men in Women's Sports Executive Order into law in the East Room of the White House in Washington, D.C., on Feb. 5, 2025. (ANDREW CABALLERO-REYNOLDS / AFP)

The incidents at San Jose State and UPenn became widely-publicized controversies that resulted in multiple lawsuits. 

At UPenn, transgender swimmer Lia Thomas was allowed to compete on the women's swim team after previously competing on the