The next move is up to the Trump administration after California rejects demand to bar trans-athletes from women's and girls' sports. State funding is threatened.

The University of Pennsylvania has reached a deal with the Trump administration to ban transgender athletes from competing in women’s sports at the school.

The U.S. Education Department announced Tuesday that the University of Pennsylvania has agreed to ban transgender athletes from its women's sports teams in order to resolve a federal civil rights case that found the university violated female athletes' rights, the Associated Press reported.

The University of Pennsylvania and the federal government have reached an agreement that the Ivy League school will adhere to the Trump administration's ban on transgender athletes competing in women's sports.

The decision might cost the state billions of dollars in federal education funding.

The University of Pennsylvania has agreed to ban transgender women from participating on its women’s sports teams and remove the records of Lia Thomas, a former student and the first transgender woman to win a NCAA Division I national championship,

The cases involve laws in Idaho and West Virginia that bar transgender athletes from participating in women’s and girls’ school sports.

The U.S. Supreme Court agreed on Thursday to consider the constitutionality of state laws banning transgender women and girls from participating on female school sports teams.

McMahon's statement on X was the latest salvo in the culture wars over transgender youth and ratchets up the personal rivalry between Trump and Newsom. Trump has made reversing ad

U.S. Education Secretary Linda McMahon gave California 10 days from June 27 to rescind any sports prizes awarded to trans athletes and ban them after the agency's Office of Civil Rights said that the state had violated federal anti-discrimination law by allowing transgender girls to compete with cisgender girls.