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Education Secretary Linda McMahon spoke to Fox News Digital during a circuit halt during the Independent Women's Forum autobus circuit successful Santa Fe, New Mexico, connected Monday.
McMahon has been a cardinal fig successful the Trump administration's ngo to antagonistic trans jock inclusion successful women's and girls' sports, directing the Department of Education to motorboat respective Title IX investigations into institutions that person enabled incidents to occur.
Five months into her position, McMahon has helped spearhead the enactment of a caller national Title IX Investigations squad successful conjunction with the U.S. Department of Justice.
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Linda McMahon, President Donald Trump’s nominee to beryllium Secretary of Education, testifies during her Senate Health, Education, Labor and Pensions Committee confirmation proceeding successful the Dirksen Senate Office Building connected Feb. 13, 2025 successful Washington, D.C. (Win McNamee/Getty Images)
Meanwhile, the ongoing nationalist civilization warfare implicit the contented burns hotter than it ever has.
Press caput Karoline Leavitt and salient blimpish influencer Riley Gaines are among those connected the close who person suggested imaginable transgression prosecution for officials who let biologic males to vie successful women's and girls' sports.
The caller precocious schoolhouse sports play has featured respective instances of pistillate athletes protesting and demonstrating against transgender opponents, whether it beryllium forfeits oregon medal podium stunts, successful a increasing viral trend.
Fox News Digital (FND): What is your stance connected the thought of transgression prosecution coming to officials who don't enforce Title IX and let [biological] males to vie successful girls' sports?
McMahon: "I haven't really addressed that with the Department of Justice, but it's surely thing that if the president would similar america to look into it, we surely would."
Education Secretary Linda McMahon attends the International Women of Courage Awards Ceremony astatine the State Department successful Washington, D.C., connected April 1, 2025. (BRENDAN SMIALOWSKI/AFP via Getty Images)
FND: Going into [the adjacent precocious schoolhouse sports season], however important bash you deliberation it is that precocious schoolhouse miss athletes marque an effort to show against Democrat authorities lawmakers that don't enforce Title IX?
McMahon: "I deliberation it's precise important, it's 1 of the things that I mentioned contiguous erstwhile I was delivering my remarks to this group. I congratulated those young women for taking specified a basal and I encouraged them to proceed to bash that.
"Because that's what's going to marque a difference, is to person these women athletes and these miss athletes who are truly precise beardown and merit the close to beryllium capable to play successful the athletics of their choice, but to vie against girls, due to the fact that it's conscionable an unfair playing tract otherwise.
"And they person to basal up for their ain rights. And besides cognize that we're going to beryllium lasting down them."
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Education Secretary Linda McMahon visits "Fox & Friends" astatine Fox News Channel Studios connected March 7, 2025 successful New York City. (Noam Galai/Getty Images)
FND: What tin states [like California, Maine and Minnesota] expect successful the 2nd fractional of the twelvemonth present that we're going connected 4 to 5 months since President Trump signed the [Keeping Men Out of Women's Sports] enforcement bid and they're inactive not pursuing it?
McMahon: "They tally the hazard of having their national backing withdrawn. That's the main happening that's connected the table. We person a task for that the Department of Education is doing with the Department of Justice to analyse Title IX violations and that's what we're doing. So the penalties are connected the array for those that we find to beryllium successful violation."
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Jackson Thompson is simply a sports writer for Fox News Digital. He antecedently worked for ESPN and Business Insider. Jackson has covered the Super Bowl and NBA Finals, and has interviewed iconic figures Usain Bolt, Rob Gronkowski, Jerry Rice, Troy Aikman, Mike Trout, David Ortiz and Roger Clemens.
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