The University of Pennsylvania's decision to ban transgender female athletes from competing in women's sports to resolve a civil rights complaint by the Department of Education is being slammed by LGBTQ activists and legal experts as unconstitutional.

UPenn will need to "restore to female athletes all individual UPenn Division I swimming records, titles, or similar recognitions which were misappropriated by male athletes allowed to compete in female categories.

Lia Thomas, the transgender swimmer from the University of Pennsylvania who made headlines for competing — and winning — against biologically female athletes, has now been stripped of those titles following a federal investigation led by the Trump administration.