The University of Pennsylvania has reached an agreement to ban transgender women from participating in women's sports teams following a civil rights investigation. The U.S. Education Department found that Penn violated Title IX by allowing Lia Thomas, a transgender athlete, to compete in women's events. The agreement entails restoring swimming records and titles to female athletes who lost to Thomas and sending personalized apologies. Penn must announce that it will not permit male athletes in female sports and adopt biology-based definitions of male and female, as stated by the Education Department.
Under the agreement, Penn agreed to restore all individual Division I swimming records and titles to female athletes who lost out to Thomas, the Education Department said.
The university must also announce that it will not allow males to compete in female athletic programs and adopt biology-based definitions of male and female.
Education Secretary Linda McMahon called it a victory for women and girls. "The Department commends UPenn for rectifying its past harms against women and girls,..."
The Education Department opened its investigation in February and concluded in April that Penn had violated Title IX, a 1972 law forbidding sex discrimination in education.
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