Feds Move To Strip Trans Swimmer Of Awards He Won By Pretending To Be Female
University broke law, now ordered to apologize for allowing women's educational experience in athletics to be marred by sex discrimination
The University of Pennsylvania broke federal law by allowing a transgender swimmer, a man who calls himself a woman, to be on the women’s swim team and go into locker rooms where female team members were required to change.
The ruling is from the U.S. Department of Education’s Office for Civil Rights, and while the report itself does not name Lia Thomas, the man who identifies himself as a woman and insisted on being on the women’s team, it does mean that he could lose the medals he won while he was swimming as a woman.
Thomas has become an activist for privileges for transgenders, after he and female swimmer Riley Gaines tied for first place in one event, and he was given the medal for victory, not her.
The department has investigated the school for some time, and concluded it violated Title IX, which bans sex discrimination in schools and colleges. The school is accused of “denying women equal opportunities by permitting males to compete in women’s intercollegiate athletics and to occupy women-only intimate facilities,” according to a report posted online at ESPN.
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Thomas “won” a Division I title while swimming on the women’s team at Penn, and the report noted that award is one that “Thomas now faces losing.”
School officials had no comment on the problem they created, but the report noted in the past, they blamed the NCAA and Ivy League policies, claiming they followed them closely.
Federal officials said Penn has “10 days to voluntarily resolve the violations or risk prosecution.”
The report said the Department of Education is calling for the school to issue a statement that it will follow Title IX requirements, a move that effectively would strip Thomas of “any awards or records in Division I swimming competitions.”
Also, the school must apologize to those female swimmers “whose individual recognition is restored expressing an apology on behalf of the university for allowing her educational experience in athletics to be marred by sex discrimination,” the report said.
“Little girls who look up to Riley Gaines and Paula Scanlan can find hope in today’s action – the Trump Administration will not allow male athletes to invade female private spaces or compete in female categories,” said Acting Assistant Secretary for Civil Rights Craig Trainor.
The misbehavior identified by the federal investigation already has resulted in the administration of President Trump suspending some $175 million in federal funding to Penn that had been coming from the Defense Department and the Department of Health and Human Services.
The NCAA had fallen into alignment with the transgender ideology, but abruptly reversed its policy when Trump took office and announced the federal government’s position is that there are two genders, male and female.
Actually, following the science, changing genders doesn’t happen, as being male or female is embedded in the human body down to the DNA level, a factor unchanged by cosmetic surgeries and the like.
The government also has opened investigations into other entities, including Denver Public Schools, over the issue.
Thomas, meanwhile, has demanded that Title IX be changed to provide more accommodations to men who say they are women and want to compete on women’s teams, joining females in their locker room showers and such.
Thomas earlier had competed in men’s competitions, largely without success.
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