Paula Scanlan, a former University of Pennsylvania athlete who was on a team with transgender swimmer Lia Thomas, told Newsmax on Thursday that she never thought the day would come “where there would be any type of apology, any type of recognition, that they were wrong” with allowing Thomas to compete on the women’s team.

“The University of Pennsylvania is admitting that they were wrong based on how they treated me and how they treated my teammates during that season,” Scanlan, now the director of Early Vote Action and a senior fellow with the American Principles Project, said on “Wake Up America.”

The U.S. Department of Education on Tuesday announced that the University of Pennsylvania agreed to ban transgender women from its women’s sports teams, resolving a federal civil rights case that found the school violated the rights of female athletes.

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