BREAKING NEWS Trans swimmer Lia Thomas' wins will be WIPED and runners-up moved to first place after Penn bowed to Trump crackdown
Penn will now adopt strict definitions for male and female competitors under White House guidelines and erase Thomas from the school's history books. Furthermore, the school will restore records to swimmers impacted by Thomas' inclusion in women's NCAA competitions and issue an apology to those parties.
The Ivy League school's decision comes after the Trump administration suspended $175 million in federal funding to Penn – money that had been earmarked and funded by the Defense Department and the Department of Health and Human Services.
In 2022, the NCAA used a sport-by-sport approach to allowing transgender athletes to participate, deferring to an individual sport's national governing organization, international federation or prior established International Olympic Committee criteria.
Thomas competed under those guidelines, which allowed female transgender swimmers who had completed one year of hormone replacement therapy to compete.
The NCAA changed its policy the day after Trump signed an executive order on February 5 that was intended to ban transgender athletes from competing in girls and women's sports. That ended its sport-by-sport practice in favor of a blanket policy that only allows athletes assigned female at birth to participate in women's sports.
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