The University of Pennsylvania has agreed to bar transgender women from its women’s sports teams under a settlement with the U.S. Department of Education, ending a Title IX civil-rights case that focused on swimmer Lia Thomas. Under the agreement, Penn will erase Thomas’s times from its record book, vacate the women’s marks she set in the 100-, 200- and 500-yard freestyle and reinstate the previous record-holders. The Ivy League school must also send personalized apology letters to every female swimmer who competed against Thomas, adopt biology-based definitions of male and female for athletics and keep locker rooms and teams separated on that basis. Federal officials opened the inquiry in February, after President Donald Trump suspended roughly $175 million in federal contracts to the university, saying it violated Title IX by allowing Thomas—who had swum three seasons on Penn’s men’s team—to compete for the women in 2021-22. Education Secretary Linda McMahon called the settlement a “common-sense” victory and said it could serve as a template for other colleges. The deal follows NCAA rule changes that restrict athletes assigned male at birth from women’s sports and is part of a wider push by the Trump administration to apply similar standards across U.S. educational institutions.