Mick Hartley

We roll our eyes at our ancestors who believed that the sun was a deity.
We are horrified when we learn that some used poisonous lead in their make-up.
Imagine what historians in 500 years will say about this strange moment in time… pic.twitter.com/lLvXxo0Wn9

— Jill Foster (@JournalistJill) July 2, 2025

https://platform.twitter.com/widgets.js

Article here:

The US Department of Education announced the agreement, saying the Ivy League institution would apologise and restore to female athletes titles and records that were "misappropriated by male athletes".

The university said it would update its records set during the 2021–22 season to "indicate who would now hold the records under current eligibility guidelines", but it did not say whether Thomas' records would be erased.

Thomas became the first trans athlete to win the highest US national college title in March 2022.

The deal marks the latest development in President Donald Trump's crackdown on transgender athletes participating in sports. He signed an executive order days after coming into office that sought to prevent transgender women from competing in female categories of sports.

The university was among several that his administration opened investigations into over possible violations of Title IX, a 1972 civil rights law that bans sex-based discrimination in any education programme or activity that receives federal funding.

Two months later, the Trump administration paused $175m (£127m) in federal funding to the college over its transgender athlete policy.

Under Tuesday's deal, the university must stick to "biology-based definitions" of male and female, in line with the president's executive orders, said the education department.

The headline is misleading in a typical BBC slant. Athletes like Lia Thomas aren't being banned just because they're transgender, but because they're men unfairly competing against women  – where they have a huge physical advantage. That's the problem, and that's why anyone not blinded by trans ideology can clearly see how outrageous this whole farce has been. If it took Trump to end it, well….good for Trump.