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The university’s website already shows other athletes holding school records that Thomas set in freestyle swimming.
The University of Pennsylvania will take actions regarding transgender athletes as a result of a Title IX agreement with the ...
Former UPenn swimmer shared her account of locker room experiences with Lia Thomas and welcomed UPenn adopting biological ...
Thomas, who is transgender, competed on the women's swimming team for one year. The university struck her records to comply ...
Penn's agreement with Trump administration removes Lia Thomas's records, highlighting the debate about transgender athletes ...
Lia Thomas, a transgender swimmer, sparked controversy after winning an NCAA title in 2022. In July 2025, the University of ...
Gaines’ efforts reached a peak this week, when the University of Pennsylvania acceded to the Trump administration’s demands ...
UPenn will also update records set by Thomas and apologize to female athletes ‘disadvantaged’ by her participation ...
The University of Pennsylvania has caved to demands from the Department of Education (ED), agreeing to ban trans people from ...
Former University of Pennsylvania swimmer Monika Burzynska said she was assigned the locker just one over from Lia Thomas' when the transgender athlete joined the women's swim team in 2021.
Lia Catherine Thomas is an American swimmer born in May 1999 and raised in Austin, Texas. She grew up excelling in freestyle ...
Transgender swimming champion Lia Thomas will be stripped of University of Pennsylvania swimming titles after the Ivy League ...