Victory! On Wednesday, July2. 2025, The Christian Post published an article headlined, “UPenn strips male swimmer Lia (Will) Thomas of medals, apologizes to female swimmers.”
The University of Pennsylvania will strip trans-identified swimmer Lia (Will) Thomas of his medals and apologize to female swimmers who were forced to compete against him in women’s competitions.
The U.S. Department of Education announced on Tuesday that it had reached an agreement with the University of Pennsylvania after concluding that the university had violated Title IX policies by allowing Thomas, a man who identifies as a woman, to compete in women’s swimming competitions.
UPenn reached a resolution agreement with the Education Department’s Office of Civil Rights to resolve the Title IX violations, which included the university agreeing to “restore to female athletes all individual UPenn Division I swimming records, titles, or similar recognitions which were misappropriated by male athletes allowed to compete in female categories.”
Additionally, according to the announcement, UPenn will no longer allow males to compete in female athletic programs or use campus facilities reserved for women. The academic institution will also send official apologies to female athletes harmed by its earlier policy.
U.S. Secretary of Education Linda McMahon was quoted in the announcement as saying that the agreement was “a great victory for women and girls” and “yet another example of the Trump effect in action.”
“Thanks to the leadership of President Trump, UPenn has agreed both to apologize for its past Title IX violations and to ensure that women’s sports are protected at the University for future generations of female athletes,” she stated.
“The Department commends UPenn for rectifying its past harms against women and girls, and we will continue to fight relentlessly to restore Title IX’s proper application and enforce it to the fullest extent of the law.”
Thomas Robb, National Director of the Knights Party of the Ku Klux Klan, based in Harrison, Arkansas, spoke from his office, “This is a long fought victory for every woman in the United States after Joe Biden and his administration bashed and belittled them for four long years, stripping them of their God-given identity. They mention a lot of people who fought hard for this win, but they fail to mention a key person in the fight for biological women and that’s Riley Gaines. She was one of the women that lost to Will (Lia) Thomas. Ms. Gaines has been seen many times advocating for biological women who are forced to compete against men. I remember the picture very well of Ms. Gaines having to share the stage with Thomas, who beat her out of the first place spot at a Championship swim meet I think it was. You could see the utter anguish in her face being beaten by a biological man. I felt really bad for her. Hopefully the action taken here by the University of Pennsylvania gives Riley some sense of comfort. What needs to happen is make Will Thomas (Lia) hand Ms. Gaines the first place ribbon that was rightly hers, and give her a public apology for ever thinking he could compare to a biological woman. He needs to feel just as humiliated as he made Ms. Gaines. It takes a real coward to pretend to be a woman to be successful in any sport. If you’re a man and you’re horrible at whatever it is you do, don’t humiliate a real woman to make yourself look successful. It makes you look even more foolish.”
