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

The resolution agreement — which comes after the department found Penn to have 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 an executive order stating the U.S. opposes “male competitive participation in women’s sports” and threatened schools’ federal funding. 

NCAA President Charlie Baker, a former Republican governor of Massachusetts, testified before a Senate panel in December that fewer than 10 NCAA athletes are transgender. 

The resolution agreement between Penn and the Education Department also requires the school, Trump’s alma mater, to issue a public statement that it will comply with the administration’s interpretation of Title IX and adopt “biology-based” definitions of the words male and female.

Thomas currently holds three of the six Penn women’s swimming and diving individual freestyle records.

An attorney who represented her in a previous legal challenge to a World Aquatics policy banning most transgender women from competitive swimming did not immediately return a request for comment.

On his first day back in office, Trump signed an order stating the federal government recognizes only two unchangeable sexes. 

The university’s statement will be displayed “in a prominent location on its main website and on each of its websites for women’s athletics,” according to the agreement. 

In a statement, the university said it will comply with the Education’s Department’s interpretation of Title IX but “will not—on the basis of sex—exclude female students from participation in, deny female students the benefits of, or subject female students to discrimination under, any athletics programs.” 

“In addition, in providing to female student-athletes intimate facilities such as locker rooms and bathrooms in connection with Penn Athletics, such facilities shall be strictly separated on the basis of sex and comparably provided to each sex,” the university said. 

Education Secretary Linda McMahon called the agreement “another example of the Trump effect in action.” 

“Today is a great victory for women and girls not only at the University of Pennsylvania, but all across our nation,” she said Tuesday in a statement. “The Department commends UPenn for rectifying its past harms against women and girls, and we will continue to fight relentlessly to restore Title IX’s proper application and enforce it to the fullest extent of the law.”