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UPenn to Bar Transgender Women From Women’s Teams and Strip Lia Thomas’ Records

Under the voluntary Title IX resolution, Penn will restore women’s swimming titles after a federal probe found its policies violated civil rights law.

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 will bar transgender women from women’s athletic programs and adopt biology-based definitions of male and female under the Education Department agreement.
  • Lia Thomas’s Division I swimming records and titles will be retroactively stripped and reassigned to the next-place female finishers.
  • The university must send personalized apology letters to each female swimmer affected by Thomas’s participation.
  • The Education Department’s Office for Civil Rights opened its Title IX investigation in February and concluded in April that Penn violated federal civil rights law.
  • The resolution follows President Trump’s threat to withhold $175 million in federal funding to secure the school’s compliance with transgender athlete policies.