Lawmakers dropped any effort to advance a policy banning transgender students from playing sports on teams consistent with their gender identity, as part of a compromise bill they advanced last week.

The University of Pennsylvania has agreed to ban transgender women from its women’s sports teams to resolve a federal civil rights case that found the school violated the rights of female athletes.

The Supreme Court has agreed to hear two cases in the fall that test state laws banning transgender women and girls from ...

UPenn to ban transgender athletes from women's sports, erase Lia Thomas' records in deal with Trump admin The decision was made in order to resolve a federal civil rights case against the school ...

UPenn to ban transgender athletes, feds say, ending civil rights case It’s part of the Trump administration’s broader attempt to remove transgender athletes from girls’ and women’s sports.

The case focused on Thomas, the transgender swimmer who last competed for the Ivy League school in Philadelphia in 2022, when she became the first openly transgender athlete to win a Division I title.

Lawmakers: Procedure that spiked transgender athlete ban “hit a nerve” by: Sam Drysdale. Posted: Jun 23, 2025 / 04:38 PM EDT. Updated: Jun 24, 2025 / 06:01 PM EDT.