In February, Trump signed an executive order titled “Keeping Men Out of Women’s Sports,” which gave federal agencies the ability to penalize schools for allowing transgender athletes to compete — something the Trump administration says violates Title IX, the federal civil rights law that prohibits sexual discrimination.

President Donald Trump on Tuesday threatened to withhold federal funding from California over a transgender athlete’s participation in an upcoming sporting event — the latest example of the president trying to use funding as leverage to enact his agenda.

Trump’s Truth Social post early Tuesday also blasted Gov. Gavin Newsom, who stunned many in his party in March by telling conservative commentator Charlie Kirk that while the issue is nuanced, he