It's a new day in America when it comes to universities allowing mentally ill men to destroy women's sports. The Trump administration has scored a huge win over the University of Pennsylvania, garnering an agreement from the school to ban "transgender" athletes. Further, "Lia" Thomas, the below-average male swimmer who stole numerous records by pretending to be a woman, will be stripped of all his "accomplishments."
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NEWS: The Trump admin has struck a deal with UPenn, forcing the school to strip Lia Thomas of his records, titles and other recognitions won while competing on the women’s sports team. @DailyCaller pic.twitter.com/1FZIeBZWnI
— Reagan Reese (@reaganreese_) July 1, 2025
Thomas became the center of controversy in 2022 when it was revealed that UPenn bullied members of the women's swimming team into not objecting to the biological male competing. That included threatening those who didn't want Thomas to be allowed in the women's locker room. He would later go on to smash records at that year's NCAA championship, an outcome that would lead to the rise of Riley Gaines as a top activist opposing "transgender" athletes in women's sports.
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The level of folding here by UPenn is honestly surprising. We are talking about one of the most far-left schools in the country, and they are agreeing to post a letter on their website detailing all of the ways they are capitulating. They are even going to issue personalized letters of apology to all female swimmers affected by their past decisions regarding "transgender" athletes.
NEW: @Linda_McMahon announces that UPenn has bent the knee to the Trump White House: UPenn will restore to female athletes all records and titles “misappropriated by male athletes” and issue a public statement clarifying that they will not allow men in women’s spaces. pic.twitter.com/S88iJczzhd
— Mary Margaret Olohan (@MaryMargOlohan) July 1, 2025
That shows you just how powerful federal funding is. By violating Title IX, they were set to lose a lot of money, and the Trump administration stood its ground, including in the face of partisan legal challenges. At the end of the day UPenn had a choice to make, and money talks.
We will no doubt get some kind of reaction from Thomas, and I doubt it'll be an apology for all the harm he caused. Still, I'm happy that some semblance of justice is being served. There were a lot of women who were shoved aside and mentally abused by universities amid the trend of allowing "transgender" athletes to compete in their spaces. Hopefully, this is part of a broader trend and we can eventually put this awful episode behind us as a nation.
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