Wagner College, a small, private liberal arts college on Staten Island in New York has agreed to comply with the Trump administration’s restrictions on transgender student-athletes following a federal investigation that stemmed from an incident at a women’s fencing competition in March, the Education Department announced Friday.

The department’s Office for Civil Rights (OCR) launched an investigation into Wagner after USA Fencing officials disqualified a woman from a tournament at the University of Maryland on March 30. Stephanie Turner, 31, had refused to compete against Red Sullivan, a 19-year-old Wagner student, taking a knee to protest Sullivan’s participation in violation of the competition’s rules.

A video of Turner’s disqualification quickly went viral, amplified by conservative activists, political figures and Fox News.

“This is heroic on her part,” Rep. Mike Lee (R-Utah) wrote in a post on social platform X, responding to a video of the exchange posted by Riley Gaines, a frequent critic of transgender women in women’s sports.

In May, the House Oversight Subcommittee on Delivering on Government Efficiency held a hearing on the incident and invited Turner to........

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