Donald Trump gives Penn ultimatum on transgender swimmer Lia Thomas

is giving the University of 10 days to make amends for a 2022 decision allowing a swimmer to complete on the school's women's team and use team facilities.

The administration's statement does not name , the transgender swimmer who last competed for the Ivy League school in Philadelphia in 2022 and was the first openly transgender athlete to win a Division I title that year — an award Thomas now faces losing.

But the investigation opened in February by the U.S. Education Department's Office for Civil Rights focused on Thomas, who became a leading symbol of transgender athletes and a prominent political target of Republicans and President Donald Trump.

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