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UPenn Agrees to Ban Transgender Women From Women’s Sports in Title IX Resolution

It enforces biology-based sex definitions at Penn following a DOE finding that the university violated Title IX

Who is Lia Thomas and where is she now? UPenn to erase swimmer's records, ban trans athletes (Photo by Joseph Prezioso / AFP)
FILE - Swimmers including Penn's Lia Thomas, lane 4, dive into the water at the start of a qualifying heat of the 200 yard freestyle at the Ivy League Women's Swimming and Diving Championships at Harvard University, Feb. 18, 2022, in Cambridge, Mass. (AP Photo/Mary Schwalm, File)
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Overview

  • Penn signed a voluntary agreement with the U.S. Department of Education on July 1 to resolve a civil rights case by barring transgender women from its women’s sports teams.
  • The Department of Education’s Office for Civil Rights concluded in April that Penn violated Title IX by allowing swimmer Lia Thomas to compete in women’s events during the 2021–22 season.
  • Under the settlement, Penn will restore impacted Division I swimming records and titles to female athletes and send personalized apology letters to each swimmer affected.
  • The university must adopt biology-based definitions of male and female and publicly affirm it will not allow biological males to compete in women’s athletic programs.
  • The deal follows a Trump administration executive order and the suspension of $175 million in federal funding to Penn, though it remains unclear whether Lia Thomas’s NCAA honors beyond Penn’s records will be revoked.