Can Trump deliver on two big but contradictory campaign promises to women and families?

President-elect Donald Trump promised on the campaign trail to get men out of women’s sports and eliminate the federal Department of Education.He seems intent on keeping both promises.But how? In announcing Linda McMahon, Small Business Administration chief in his first term, his pick to lead the department Wednesday, Trump declared, “We will send Education BACK TO THE STATES, and LINDA will spear head that effort.”Women’s-only spaces are guaranteed under Title IX — which the Department of Education’s Office of Civil Rights enforces, usually by withholding federal funding from unlawful institutions.How would that happen if the department is abolished?Independent Women’s Law Center Director May Mailman, a former Trump legal adviser who served in his first White House, admits it’s a conundrum.

“I don’t even know if the right has completely figured out where it wants to be in that space because if you have a promise of eliminating the Department of Education, then you have far less oversight — zero oversight,” she told The Post.“Title IX has a private right of action, so individuals can sue too,” Mailman explained.“So I still think that there will be a lot of work to be done by groups on the right that litigate, that maybe will no longer be litigating against the now-Biden administration but can litigate against colleges who are depriving students of rights.”Colleges must be put on notice that noncompliance can be costly, and Mailman notes the law’s enforcement will come down to the personnel in the next Trump administration.“I think you can make a few high-profile examples.

And it would be my hope that those high-profile examples are not the Harvards and the Yales because these colleges, they don’t need the money,” Mailman said.“Honestly, they can just not take the money.

They have huge endowments, and they can be as racist and sexist as they want to be. What will “affect the majority of human beings going to college wil...