The insane Lia Thomas saga has finally been put to bed.

The University of Pennsylvania reached an agreement with the Department of Education on Tuesday. UPenn will apologize to swimmers affected by being forced to compete against or with Thomas, a man who started his college career on UPenn’s men’s swimming team before “transitioning” to the women’s team. UPenn will also “adopt biology-based definitions for the words ‘male’ and ‘female,’” according to the Education Department, and will vacate Thomas’s records and titles as a UPenn swimmer.

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It is undeniably great news. Thomas was a middling male swimmer who became a championship-level women’s swimmer by exploiting his biological physical advantages as a man. Thomas changed in the women’s locker room at the same time as female teammates and opponents. We can celebrate that UPenn will no longer allow this to happen.

But we must not forget that UPenn allowed this to happen in the first place. Everyone could tell that this was wrong back in 2021, and that a man should not be changing in the same locker room with, or competing against, women. UPenn defended Thomas’s presence on the women’s team and allowed these injustices to continue until Thomas left the school. Were it not for Donald Trump’s 2024 victory, UPenn would have never agreed to any of this.

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This brings us to the looming threat of a return to this abnormalcy. A Democrat could become president as soon as 2029, and he or she would likely return the Education Department’s Title IX focus to forcing women’s sports to accept male athletes. Democrats remain obsessed with this issue, and that fact likely won’t have changed by 2028. Does anyone think the left-wing administrators and bureaucrats at an Ivy League institution such as UPenn would object to being “pressured” by a Democratic president into imposing transgender ideology on their institutions and organizations once again?

The erasure of Lia Thomas’s phony records and titles and UPenn’s new institutional view on transgender athletes is a win, but it doesn’t erase what UPenn forced female athletes to accept and it doesn’t guarantee UPenn will prevent future Lia Thomas situations four years from now. This victory is temporary, and it should serve as a reminder to those who want to protect female athletes and women’s sports that their duty won’t stop until transgender ideology is consigned to the ash heap of history where it belongs.