The University of Pennsylvania has agreed to strip transgender swimmer Lia Thomas of her women’s swimming titles and records and to bar transgender women from competing on its female teams, ending a federal Title IX investigation by the U.S. Department of Education’s Office for Civil Rights. The accord, announced 1 July, requires the Ivy League school to apologise individually to athletes who contended they were disadvantaged when Thomas competed during the 2021-22 season. Under the settlement, UPenn will reassign three programme records Thomas set in the 100-, 200- and 500-yard freestyle to the next-fastest female swimmers and update historical results from the 2022 NCAA championships, where Thomas won the women’s 500-yard freestyle. The university must also separate locker-room and other intimate facilities by biological sex. Failure to comply risked forfeiture of up to $175 million in federal funding that had been frozen during the probe. Education Secretary Linda McMahon called the agreement “a victory for women and girls,” saying it restores the original intent of Title IX. Penn President J. Larry Jameson said the school will “fully comply” with the revised NCAA eligibility rules adopted in February that ban athletes “assigned male at birth” from women’s events. Thomas, who previously competed on Penn’s men’s team, was the first openly transgender athlete to win an NCAA Division I title. The UPenn decision is among the first instances of a U.S. university retroactively rescinding accolades from a transgender athlete and underscores the Trump administration’s broader push to restrict transgender participation in women’s sports. Separately, 82-year-old Julie Jaman reached a $65,000 settlement with the YMCA in Port Townsend, Washington, after the organisation barred her for objecting to a transgender staffer’s presence in a women’s locker room—another sign of the growing legal and financial fallout surrounding single-sex spaces.