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Lia Thomas will have her swimming times removed from the records and her medals stripped after a landmark decision from Donald Trump.<\/strong><\/p>\n In 2022,\u00a0Thomas<\/a>\u00a0became the first openly transgender athlete to win an NCAA national championship – the highest college title – in swimming.<\/p>\n Her victory has been the source of controversy over the past three years, with incoming President Trump taking a hardline stance upon taking office earlier this year.<\/p>\n In one of his first acts as President,\u00a0Trump<\/a>\u00a0signed an executive order that aimed to prevent transgender women from competing in female categories in sports<\/a>.<\/p>\n The order, which was to largely cover high schools, universities and grassroots sports, was accompanied by a warning from the President, who stated that organisations could lose federal funding if they did not comply.<\/p>\n Lia Thomas will have her swimming times removed from the records and her medals stripped after a landmark decision from Donald Trump.<\/strong><\/p>\n In 2022,\u00a0Thomas<\/a>\u00a0became the first openly transgender athlete to win an NCAA national championship – the highest college title – in swimming.<\/p>\n Her victory has been the source of controversy over the past three years, with incoming President Trump taking a hardline stance upon taking office earlier this year.<\/p>\n In one of his first acts as President,\u00a0Trump<\/a>\u00a0signed an executive order that aimed to prevent transgender women from competing in female categories in sports<\/a>.<\/p>\n The order, which was to largely cover high schools, universities and grassroots sports, was accompanied by a warning from the President, who stated that organisations could lose federal funding if they did not comply.<\/p>\n They declared that they would update their record books for the 2021\/22 season to reflect current guidelines.<\/p>\n A legal battle has ensued in recent months, with the US Office for Civil Rights (OCR) finding that the university violated Title IX, a landmark law passed in 1972 that prohibits discrimination based on sex.<\/p>\n The US Department of Education announced on Tuesday that the university had ‘entered into a resolution agreement to resolve its Title IX violations’,\u00a0as per<\/a>\u00a0PinkNews.<\/p>\n It will also ‘send a personalised letter of apology to each impacted female swimmer’.<\/p>\n Thomas’ records will be expunged, it is added, except for her time in the 4x100m relay race.<\/p>\n The administration has now dropped a civil rights case, in which it claimed that the university had ‘discriminated against cis[gender] women by allowing Thomas to compete following her transition’.<\/p>\n