Former Olympic swimmer Sharron Davies has hailed the decision by the University of Pennsylvania to remove transgender swimmer Lia Thomas's records, declaring "justice has been served".
The University of Pennsylvania has reached an agreement with the Trump administration to ban transgender athletes from women's sports teams and erase records set by swimmer Lia Thomas, the US Department of Education announced.
Under the agreement, the university will restore records, titles and honours to female athletes who lost them due to Thomas's participation.
The university must also issue individual apology letters to affected swimmers and implement biology-based definitions for sports participation.
Sharron Davies hailed the decision by the University of Pennsylvania to remove Lia Thomas's wins
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Speaking to GB News, Davies explained that despite the decision being made now, it took "18 months" of mistreatment of biologically female athletes who raised their concerns about Thomas.
Davies explained: "Justice has been served, however, for nearly 18 months, this university made all their athletes change next to this biological male who is fully intact and who made it absolutely obvious that they were still attracted to females.
"And when those girls complained and said we're unhappy about this loss of privacy, they were told to adjust their thinking and they would be sent to see psychologists and black marked and have their careers wrecked if they carried on."
Declaring that the University has "an awful lot of apologising to do", Davies claimed that decision is "not through the goodness of their heart".
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Lia Thomas won in the 2022 NCAA ChampionshipsGettyShe told GB News: "It's taken four years for them to do this. I have to be honest and say, I don't think it's through the goodwill of their heart that they want to protect women's sport.
"I think that Donald Trump saying that he will remove their federal funding has made a huge difference, about $175million, I believe, but they have done the right thing at long last."
Highlighting the scale of sports still not supporting single-sex spaces for athletes, Davies told host Martin Daubney that there is still "40 sports" in Britain alone that are not abiding by the Supreme Court ruling.
She said: "Let's hope that we can make all the other sports do the same. There's still 40 sports here in the UK that are not doing it even after the Supreme Court ruling.
Davies told GB News that there are still 40 sports not complying with single-sex sport rules
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"And the LTA (Lawn Tennis Association) for example, just about to have Wimbledon, they look after the elite one per cent. All of the other female tennis players are subjected to having to play men, so there's still a lot of work to do."
The resolution follows a federal Title IX investigation that found the university violated the law prohibiting sex-based discrimination in educational settings by allowing Thomas to compete in women's swimming competitions.
The Department of Education launched its investigation on February 6 and concluded by April that the university had breached Title IX regulations.
As part of the resolution, the university has committed to prohibiting biologically male athletes from participating in women's sports programmes and accessing facilities designated for female athletes, including changing rooms.
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