{"id":73084,"date":"2026-05-05T09:58:15","date_gmt":"2026-05-05T14:58:15","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/news2shorts.com\/index.php\/2026\/05\/05\/trump-administration-investigates-smith-college-for-admitting-transgender-women\/"},"modified":"2026-05-05T09:58:15","modified_gmt":"2026-05-05T14:58:15","slug":"trump-administration-investigates-smith-college-for-admitting-transgender-women","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/news2shorts.com\/index.php\/2026\/05\/05\/trump-administration-investigates-smith-college-for-admitting-transgender-women\/","title":{"rendered":"Trump administration investigates Smith College for admitting transgender women"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>Civil rights inquiry claims policy may breach Title IX as administration escalates attacks on trans rights<\/p>\n<ul>\n<li>\n<p><a href=\"https:\/\/www.theguardian.com\/news\/2026\/feb\/17\/sign-up-for-the-breaking-news-us-email-to-get-newsletter-alerts-direct-to-your-inbox?utm_medium=ACQUISITIONS_STANDFIRST&amp;utm_campaign=BN22326&amp;utm_content=signup&amp;utm_term=standfirst&amp;utm_source=GUARDIAN_WEB\">Sign up for the Breaking News US newsletter email<\/a><\/p>\n<\/li>\n<\/ul>\n<p>The US education department is investigating one of the country\u2019s largest women\u2019s colleges over its admittance of transgender women in another escalation of the <a href=\"https:\/\/www.theguardian.com\/us-news\/trump-administration\">Trump administration<\/a>\u2019s attacks on trans people.<\/p>\n<p>The department\u2019s office of civil rights announced the investigation on Monday <a href=\"https:\/\/www.ed.gov\/about\/news\/press-release\/us-department-of-education-opens-title-ix-investigation-all-womens-smith-college-admitting-men\">in a press release<\/a>, saying the Massachusetts college could be violating federal law by \u201callowing biological males into women\u2019s intimate spaces\u201d, including dorms, bathrooms, locker rooms and sports teams.<\/p>\n<p> <a href=\"https:\/\/www.theguardian.com\/us-news\/2026\/may\/05\/smith-college-transgender-women-investigation\">Continue reading&#8230;<\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Civil rights inquiry claims policy may breach Title IX as administration escalates attacks on trans rights Sign up for the Breaking News US newsletter email The US education department is investigating one of the country\u2019s largest women\u2019s colleges over its admittance of transgender women in another escalation of the Trump administration\u2019s attacks on trans people. &#8230; <a title=\"Trump administration investigates Smith College for admitting transgender women\" class=\"read-more\" href=\"https:\/\/news2shorts.com\/index.php\/2026\/05\/05\/trump-administration-investigates-smith-college-for-admitting-transgender-women\/\" aria-label=\"Read more about Trump administration investigates Smith College for admitting transgender women\">Read more<\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_jetpack_memberships_contains_paid_content":false,"footnotes":""},"categories":[1],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-73084","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-blog"],"jetpack_featured_media_url":"","jetpack_sharing_enabled":true,"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/news2shorts.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/73084","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/news2shorts.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/news2shorts.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/news2shorts.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/news2shorts.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=73084"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/news2shorts.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/73084\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/news2shorts.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=73084"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/news2shorts.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=73084"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/news2shorts.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=73084"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}