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The University of Pennsylvania was found to have “violated title IX by refusing women equal opportunities by allowing men to compete in women’s intercollegial athletics and to occupy women who were only intimate,” announced the education department’s office for civil rights (OCR) Monday.
OCR said it will give the university 10 days to be in accordance with section IX or risk of a criminal reference to the Ministry of Justice.
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Penn Quakers Swimmer Lia Thomas finishes eighth in the 100 free at NCAA Swimming & Diving Championships at Georgia Tech in Atlanta, March 19, 2022. (Brett Davis-usa Today Sports)
“Little girls who look up to Riley Gaines and Paula Scanlan can find hope in today’s action – Trump administration will not allow male athletes to invade female private spaces or compete in female categories,” said acting assistant secretary of civil rights, as Craig Trainor said in a news message.
“Upenn has a choice to make: Do the right thing for her female students and immediately comes into conformity with Section IX, or continues to promote an extremist political project that violates the federal anti -dismantling law and puts in federal funding at risk.”
Pakinomist Digital reached out to the University of Pennsylvania for comment.
OCR demanded that the school publish a statement about its intention to follow section IX along with two other key actions.
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Paula Scanlan, formerly the University of Pennsylvania swims, testifies to the House Court Committee for Constitution and limited government consultation on gender affirming care of children. (Jasper Colt-USA today)
“Restore to all female athletes all individual athletic items, titles, honors, awards or similar recognition for division in swimming competitions wrongly used by male athletes competing in female categories.
The question came from Lia Thomas’ participation in the women’s swimming team in the 2021-22 season and became the first trans-fun woman to won a national championship. Thomas also broke several records at school.
Paula Scanlan, a former teammate of Thomas’ at the time, detailed to congress laws what she was dealing with in emotional testimony in 2023.
Thomas was able to compete at the NCAA Division at the woman’s level because of the organization’s genital participation policy at that time.
President Donald Trump signs an executive order that prevents transient female athletes from competing in women’s or girls’ sporting events, in the eastern space of the White House, February 5, 2025. (AP Photo/Alex Brandon)
President Donald Trump has since signed an executive order to ban biological men from women’s and girls’ sports. NCAA changed its policy in an attempt to comply with, but women’s sports attorneys have said that the change did not go far enough.
