Trump is making massive progress ending DEI nonsense. Expect another win tomorrow.
I am pleased to report Trump Order Set to Ban Transgender Girls and Women From Female School Sports and the NCAA will go along.
President Trump is preparing to issue an executive order Wednesday effectively banning transgender girls and women from participating in female sports events in schools and colleges, fulfilling a promise that fueled his campaign for the White House.
Trump will sign an order entitled “Keeping Men Out of Women’s Sports” tomorrow afternoon, said people familiar with the matter, including a White House official and a member of Congress.
The scope of the order stands to instantly affect any educational institution that receives federal funding—which includes almost every college in the U.S., as well as the majority of K-12 schools. The Title IX provision in the Education Amendments Act of 1972 prohibits sex-based discrimination in educational activities, though the meaning of that has been hotly contested for decades, mostly recently focusing on its application to transgender students.
You don’t protect women by allowing men to clobber them in boxing the name of equity.
Nor do you protect women by putting men in prison cells or locker rooms with men.
Universities Close Offices, Halt DEI Research
In other excellent Trumpian news, please note Universities Close Offices, Halt Research in Response to Trump’s Ban on DEI
Universities are suspending research projects, canceling conferences and closing offices in response to a volley of orders from President Trump banning “diversity, equity and inclusion” across the U.S. government. The directives threaten vital federal funding and have thrown university leaders into disarray.
To avoid running afoul of the orders, which include “the termination of all discriminatory programs,” some school leaders have assumed a defensive posture on anything associated with DEI.
Arizona State University told researchers to immediately stop work on federally funded DEI-related projects and avoid using unspent funds.
Michigan State University canceled a DEI webinar and began a review of campus programs to understand how they could be affected by the executive orders.
North Carolina State University directed faculty to stop working on any projects that “included the terms diversity, equity and inclusion” in the program’s proposal.
President Trump pledged during his campaign to end DEI but the breadth of his executive orders last week still stunned university leaders who have spent years incorporating DEI practices, values and personnel into curriculum, hiring and research under the Biden administration.
Among the batch of executive actions issued last week, one order directs federal agencies to end “equity-related” grants. Another would require universities to certify that they don’t run “programs promoting DEI that violate any applicable Federal antidiscrimination laws” when they get grants.
One researcher at an Ivy League school who studies public health and equity is worried that the broadly written directives will derail nearly two decades of work building up her lab. She asked not to be identified because it would draw attention to her work.
Federal funding in the form of research grants is critical to the financial health of major research universities.
For instance, the University of California, San Francisco, received about $815 million in research funding from the National Institutes of Health for fiscal year 2024, making it one of largest recipients in the country. The school keeps about 40% of that for administrative costs.
The University of Arizona is likely to lose more than $10 million in annual diversity-associated grants from NIH and the National Science Foundation intended to pay for current and future postdoctoral scholars and graduate students, said Jacob Schwartz, the associate director for cancer training and education.
“Science is not an assembly line job,” Schwartz said. “These are very skilled trainees. If you take them away, that project dies.”
I am rooting for the Ivy League researcher mentioned above to lose her job.
Concern over DEI skills makes about as much sense as concern over flat earth research.
No matter how one feels about DEI nonsense, it is absurd for the government to spend even a penny on this.
Regardless, the key point follows.
DEI Is Unconstitutional
The Fourteenth Amendment to the United States Constitution guarantees that all people within a state’s jurisdiction are treated equally under the law.
The clause was passed in 1868 to prevent discrimination and extend the Bill of Rights to the states.
You cannot end discrimination by discriminating against Whites, Asians, and men for the benefit of blacks and women.
Thus DEI is unconstitutional. Thanks to Trump for recognizing that fact.
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