Penn bans men from women's sports

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Penn bans transgender athletes, strips Thomas' records after complying with federal demands

According to Penn’s student newspaper, The Daily Pennsylvanian:

Calling Penn “one of the most well-known offenders of Title IX,” [US Secretary of Education Linda] McMahon referenced the University’s response to the Education Department’s “clear” message that "allowing men to claim they are women, so they can invade women’s locker rooms and compete against them in sports, was neither fair nor safe.”

Yesterday, Penn issued this live update:

According to a Education Department press release, Penn will comply with the three demands issued by the federal agency in April: release a statement affirming compliance with Title IX, restore accolades “misappropriated” [note the scare quotes] by transgender athletes [sic] to female athletes, and send individual apology letters to the affected athletes. The University will additionally issue a public statement specifying that Penn Athletics “will adopt biology-based definitions for the words ‘male’ and ‘female’ pursuant to Title IX and consistent with President Trump’s Executive Orders.” [Emphasis added.]

Penn will apologize to women athletes! I wonder if Penn will actually notpologize…

Congratulations to Riley Gaines and Paula Scanlon for their tireless efforts on behalf of women athletes everywhere! This victory would not have happened without their leadership.

Here is some additional coverage of Penn’s reversal:

Philadelphia Inquirer includes the negative reactions from the usual suspects.

Boston dot com writes that Penn will remove TIM swimmer William Thomas of his records in the women’s division.

Note that these articles refer to Thomas as a woman, gripe about how “unfair” Penn is to Thomas, and how Penn “capitulated” to the Trump administration.

Even British media covered this story:

Penn finally accepts that Lia Thomas is a biological man This was not a moral epiphany. It was a forced retreat. The Spectator is a right-leaning publication.

UPenn to ban trans athletes after probe stemming from swimmer Lia Thomas says the BBC.

It’s amazing what a few lawsuits and a federal investigation can accomplish.

In other news, UPMC Children's included in federal letter targeting gender care restrictions [paywalled.]

The full list of hospitals [Washington Post, paywalled] included in the warning was published by the Wall Street Journal on Monday. In addition to UPMC Children’s Hospital, it includes: Children’s Hospital of Philadelphia, Cincinnati Children’s Hospital Medical Center, Boston Children’s Hospital, UCSF Benioff Children’s Hospital Oakland, Seattle Children’s Hospital, Children’s Hospital Los Angeles, Children’s Hospital Colorado and Children’s National Hospital in Washington, D.C.

The Pittsburgh Post-Gazette is notoriously pro-trans, so it never mentions the Cass Report or other opposition to trans ideology in its articles. It also disables comments on all its trans articles. UPMC, University of Pittsburgh Medical Center), has already stopped "gender affirming care" for minors. This completely one-sided article describes how a 15-year-old Pittsburgh resident is considering travelling out of the US to disguise his biological sex.

Is the tide finally, slowly turning on gender ideology? We’ll see. But these developments are definitely in the right direction.