The University of Pennsylvania has agreed to ban transgender women from participating on its women’s sports teams and remove the records of Lia Thomas, a former student and the first transgender woman to win a NCAA Division I national championship, the Education Department announced Tuesday.

The resolution agreement — which comes after the department found Penn violated Title IX, the federal law against sex discrimination, when it allowed Thomas to join the women’s swim team for the 2021-22 season — requires the university to award Thomas’s titles to the next place finisher and personally apologize “to each impacted female swimmer.”

The NCAA, which oversees college sports at more than 1,000 colleges and universities nationwide, did not immediately respond to questions about whether it also intends to rescind Thomas’s 2022 championship win. The organization barred transgender women from participating in women’s college sports in February, shortly after President Trump signed

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