Former University of Pennsylvania teammates of transgender swimmer Lia Thomas celebrated the Trump administration’s decision to hack $175 million in federal funds from the Ivy League school for allowing such competitors to participate in women’s sports.

The White House announced the move Wednesday, three years to the day since Thomas tied for fifth in the 200-meter freestyle event at the women’s Division I NCAA Championships.

“We are so glad that Universities are beginning to see that there is a cost to openly harming female students on their campuses and we hope the pressure only increases. Penn and other universities within the NCAA, under NCAA policy and their own rogue leadership, have violated federal law and hurt women,” former Thomas teammates Grace Estabrook, Margot Kaczorowski, and Ellen Holmquist said in a joint statement released through the Independent Council for Women’s Sports.

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