The Department of Education announced Tuesday that the University of Pennsylvania has entered into a resolution agreement for allowing males to compete in female athletics and will revoke all awards given to males who competed on female teams. As a result of this agreement, the university will rescind all awards given to swimmer Lia Thomas.
The University of Pennsylvania will also abide by the Department of Education’s (DOE) demands to follow Title IX guidance in the future, ensuring that males will no longer participate in female sports. As part of the agreement, the university will restore all records and titles to female athletes that were misappropriated to male athletes, issue a public commitment to Title IX, adopt biology-based definitions of “male” and “female,” rescind guidance allowing men in women’s sports, and apologize to impacted female competitors.
Education Secretary Linda McMahon praised President Donald Trump for his success in protecting women’s sports with this accomplishment.
“Today’s resolution agreement with UPenn is yet another example of the Trump effect in action,” McMahon said. “Thanks to the leadership of President Trump, UPenn has agreed both to apologize for its past Title IX violations and to ensure that women’s sports are protected at the university for future generations of female athletes.”
Thomas competed on the men’s swim team at UPenn until 2019, when he began identifying as female and joined the women’s team. As a male swimmer, Thomas had been ranked in the mid-500s nationally. But after switching to the women’s division, he quickly rose to national prominence, shattering records and dominating the competition.
Thomas’s obvious physical advantages over female swimmers made him a national flashpoint over men competing in women’s sports. Things reached a boiling point at the 2022 NCAA Women’s Swimming Championships, where Thomas tied for fifth place in the 200-yard freestyle final with University of Kentucky swimmer Riley Gaines. However, the NCAA awarded the fifth-place trophy to Thomas, sparking outrage from Gaines and others who viewed it as a political decision rather than an athletic one.
Gaines has since become one of the leading voices defending women’s sports and opposing what she and many others see as the erasure of women’s categories by male competitors. In hindsight, the Lia Thomas saga was a turning point in the larger cultural battle over truth, fairness, and the protection of women’s rights in the face of radical gender ideology.
“This administration does not just pay lip service to women’s equality: it vigorously insists on that equality being upheld,” Gaines said following the news. “It is my hope that today demonstrates to educational institutions that they will no longer be allowed to trample upon women’s civil rights, and renews hope in every female athlete that their country’s highest leadership will not relent until they have the dignity, safety, and fairness they deserve.”
Paula Scanlan, who also had to compete against and share a locker room with Thomas, likewise thanked the Trump administration for enforcing Title IX.
“As a former UPenn swimmer who had to compete against and share a locker room with a male athlete, I am deeply grateful to the Trump Administration for refusing to back down on protecting women and girls and restoring our rightful accolades,” she said. “I am also pleased that my alma mater has finally agreed to take not only the lawful path, but the honorable one.”
The Trump Department of Education launched an investigation into the university in February over the issue and concluded that the school did, in fact, violate Title IX. The department offered the resolution agreement to the university to voluntarily resolve the issue before potentially referring the case to the Department of Justice.
University of Pennsylvania President J. Larry Jameson published a statement regarding his school’s agreement with the DOE. He stated that the university “must comply with federal requirements, including executive orders, and NCAA eligibility rules, so our teams and student-athletes may engage in competitive intercollegiate sports.”
The university’s official statement also explains that intimate facilities will be “strictly separated on the basis of sex and comparably provided to each sex,” and that the university will comply with Title IX moving forward.
Too late. UPenn made its statement and the damage is done, and female athletes who were victims of the freakshow can’t go back in time. Thankfully, President Trump is bringing common sense back to our country, and hopefully the “institutions of higher learning.”
I’m still disappointed in all the woman and female politicians who allowed this to happen in the first place. JMO
My question is. what kind of a father, would like his sissified son take advantage of women, my father would have kicked my Butt, in 5 different places’.
My parents had four boys and three girls, who grow into four men and three women, and no one was changed along the way.
Dear Lord, what happened to America!
The transfreak’s name is NOT Lia. It’s WILL. No hormone pills, or operations change that.
god made men and women this a fact just because aman wants to be a women doesnot change biology but you have a mental disorder
This is way overdue. This should have been taken care off at the time these races were done. Men competing in women’s sport has no basis in fact. A male is a male. No amount of saying I am a female changed that. And his winning every race proves that. While when he was competing with the men he was not very successful. For the life of me the democrats cannot define what is a woman but they accept a male into women’s sport on his say so. And push this forward into bath rooms, locker rooms, dormitories, sororities, prisons, anywhere women are gathered. Now nude gay parades are the norm. Drag queens performing in front of kindergartners and first graders. Get them young. The democrat party pedophiles are grooming our youths and start when they are young and vulnerable. And this males in women’s sport was the beginning. The sad thing in all this tge academia went along with it. Was there not one sane person in charge that said whoa this is going too far? Were they all paid to go along? Another thing Trump had to fix.
It’s about time and shame on the mothers that did not complain about a man winning and being in the girls locker room. All cowards!!
Its sad that the University did this basically because there were told to do so. It would have meant more if they had actually come to this conclusion on their own.
Even the University’s statement saying that they “must comply” sounds like they are doing this solely to avoid a lawsuit and that they really don’t agree with what the resolution.
Too bad they waited so long to follow Title IX guidelines.
Good!! Now, pay restitution to Riley Gaines!!
It’s all about MONEY!! If the university wasn’t going to lose federal $$$$$, you can bet they wouldn’t have made this move. They don’t care about women’s rights or doing the right thing. All they’ll do is the minimum necessary to stay on (get back into) the federal government’s good graces. If another left-wing liberal gets back in office, they will revert to their woke ways in a heartbeat.
Hallelujah! Praise the Lord!
There is justice in this world! My heart goes out to every woman who was short changed by men and I’m so glad they finally will be recognized for their accomplishments.
Good job Pennsylvania!
Now all the other states need to follow suit
A Perfect Birthday Gift for the USA!
He could not make it, but as a she he excelled ,what kind of victory is that and to be awarded and accept the medal is beyond shameful .
No hatred of him, just don’t understand the situation. BUT, if I had a daughter that has worked hard to become an elite athlete and lost to this (person). I would be angry. I was a middle talent DIII sprinter in the 70’s. IF I had identified as a female, I would have won a bunch of gold metals until years later. NOW, Sydney McLaughlin-Levrone runs faster over hurdles than I did without them. And with a style and grace that is a blessing.
Good! that is the way it should be. Biological males
should never be allowed to compete against females.
Common sense!
There’s a new sheriff in town.
It is time to shame these fools for cheating and trying to get away with it. They would have been hung on a tree back in the wild wild west.
This is good for women sports & never should have happened in the first place. A man is a man & a woman is a woman & both should have privacy rights and rights to compete in sports against their own gender. This is a good win for women & is common sense , and hope that the Democrats agree with this.
Well finally common sense will once again prevail, at least for now. Guess we’re back to just male and female; hopefully that will shut down transgenderism, etc.
This entire load of hooey is part of the process to turn the USA into a communist bastion of hell. The following goals are taken straight from the Congressional Records, January 10, 1963.
Congressional Record–Appendix, pp. A34-A35
January 10, 1963
Current Communist Goals
EXTENSION OF REMARKS OF HON. A. S. HERLONG, JR. OF FLORIDA IN THE HOUSE OF REPRESENTATIVES
Thursday, January 10, 1963
Mr. HERLONG. Mr. Speaker, Mrs. Patricia Nordman of De Land, Fla., is an ardent and articulate opponent of communism, and until recently published the De Land Courier, which she dedicated to the purpose of alerting the public to the dangers of communism in America.
At Mrs. Nordman’s request, I include in the RECORD, under unanimous consent, the following “Current Communist Goals,” which she identifies as an excerpt from “The Naked Communist,” by Cleon Skousen:
CURRENT COMMUNIST GOALS
15. Capture one or both of the political parties in the United States.
17. Get control of the schools. Use them as transmission belts for socialism and current Communist propaganda. Soften the curriculum. Get control of teachers’ associations. Put the party line in textbooks.
19. Use student riots to foment public protests against programs or organizations which are under Communist attack.
22. Continue discrediting American culture by degrading all forms of artistic expression. An American Communist cell was told to “eliminate all good sculpture from parks and buildings, substitute shapeless, awkward and meaningless forms.”
23. Control art critics and directors of art museums. “Our plan is to promote ugliness, repulsive, meaningless art.”
24. Eliminate all laws governing obscenity by calling them “censorship” and a violation of free speech and free press.
25. Break down cultural standards of morality by promoting pornography and obscenity in books, magazines, motion pictures, radio, and TV.
26. Present homosexuality, degeneracy and promiscuity as “normal, natural, healthy.”
29. Discredit the American Constitution by calling it inadequate, old-fashioned, out of step with modern needs, a hindrance to cooperation between nations on a worldwide basis.
30. Discredit the American Founding Fathers. Present them as selfish aristocrats who had no concern for the “common man.”
31. Belittle all forms of American culture and discourage the teaching of American history on the ground that it was only a minor part of the “big picture.” Give more emphasis to Russian history since the Communists took over.
32. Support any socialist movement to give centralized control over any part of the culture–education, social agencies, welfare programs, mental health clinics, etc.
36. Infiltrate and gain control of more unions.
37. Infiltrate and gain control of big business.
39. Dominate the psychiatric profession and use mental health laws as a means of gaining coercive control over those who oppose Communist goals.
40. Discredit the family as an institution. Encourage promiscuity and easy divorce.
41. Emphasize the need to raise children away from the negative influence of parents. Attribute prejudices, mental blocks and retarding of children to suppressive influence of parents.
42. Create the impression that violence and insurrection are legitimate aspects of the American tradition; that students and special-interest groups should rise up and use “united force” to solve economic, political or social problems.
It’s the right thing. Transgender athletes need their space, but it needs to be a defined space specific for transgender athletes. Identity psychology should never supersede functional biology. That it did for a time is a true travesty for all women who identify as women. During that time, to be a woman was to be marginalized by the identity politics being advocated by far-reaching transgender activists. They went too far. Way too far. The result is not wins for them. It is massive damage.
The main fault lies with those who promoted the jump to the other gender for competitive ambitions. What an insult and attack on women’s sports! Find a different venue if they must. Our females deserve a dedicated lane in whatever sport they choose.
Remove the taxpayer funded federal subsidies for universities and they begin to see the light.
Our maker created two sexes, anything else is an abomination. These mentally deficient people that insist on being something they are not is just a continuation of their own mental illness. People who support this behavior are enablers who are just as guilty as the mentally deficient.
Thank You President Trump!
Stopping this form of INSANITY!
All it took was a President and administration with integrity and ethics.
Finally it became OK to open your eyes and do the obvious. Fear of not being politically correct is fading.
“Transgender” is a made up word used to ignore the real description. “And God made man and woman”. “He created Adam and Eve, not Adam and Steve.” A ‘guy’ who wants to be a girl is a homosexual…it is also called “an abomination.” You are what you’re born as. Get over it.
What a relief! America is awakening to reality!
He can’t anymore! And he’d be off Target as well!
UPenn’s hierarchy was a bunch of liberal idiots to a “T”. The Lia freakshow artist was a travesty to women. May he fade from the media and our minds forever. XX competes against XX and XY competes against XY. Except…………… In sports like mixed tennis matches and target shooting where skill is the main thing and not necessarily strength AND is socially acceptable!
Has anyone besides me noticed the deafening silence from the liberal feminists on this issue? How did they get a muzzle on Alyssa ‘I Speak For All Women’ Milano – or is the right to murder their own unborn children the only women’s right they’re concerned with?
So will they give restitution to Riley Gaines then?
Trump was right when he said we were going to get tired of winning. After so many years of insanity it is almost too much to absorb all the good that has finally been and is still being accomplished. To me, Ronald Regan is now the second best President we have had in my lifetime.
Victory for sports Hooray
All I can say is it’s about time!
This is good news, males should never be allowed to participate in any female sports in the first place.
It’s about time.
Maybe he’ll trans back.
It’s pretty simple. If your genetics is XY you are a male. If your mind doesn’t agree with this, your mind needs healing. If your genetics are XX you are female. If you mind disagrees with this, your mind needs healing;.
No amount of body mutilation will change you from male to female and no amount of body mutilation will change you from female to male. Until such time as they can change a person’s actual genetics to that of the opposite sex and then heal the body to match that change there will be NO actual sex changes.
On the other hand, if a guy wants to have donated organs transplanted into his body making him capable of being impregnated and doing so the natural way and then delivers a full term healthy baby, the natural way, then He has the right to call himself a She and compete however She wants to. But in my opinion he’d still be genetically a male and totally insane to want to go through what women go through naturally.
YES!
Better late, than never…
THAT’S GREAT, WONDERFUL, AND TOTALLY FANTASTIC.
THE MEGA CORRUPT, MENTALLY INSANE DEMORAT PARTY’S PERVERSION’S IDEOLOGY (AND IT’S BACKERS) IS CRUMBLING. COMMON SENSE IS COMING BACK. HALLELUJAH!!!!!
One down and many more to go! We have LIEberal DemoKKKRATS to thank for all this “transgender” idiocy in Women’s sports and the fact it has gone so long..I also blame cowardly parents and female athletes for yielding to this nonsense to begin with! An IMMEDIATE boycott would have brought this ridiculousness to a screeching halt!