The University of Pennsylvania has agreed to block transgender athletes from competing in women’s sports after a federal civil rights investigation stemming from swimmer Lia Thomas.
The US Department of Education announced the agreement and said the Ivy League university would apologise and restore titles and records to female athletes in events that were “misappropriated by male athletes”.
The university said it would update its records set during Ms Thomas’ season to “indicate who would now hold the records under current eligibility guidelines”, but it did not say whether her records would be erased.
Thomas became the first transgender athlete to win the highest US national college title in March 2022.