THE United States Department of Education Launched investigations into the title IX on the Maine DOE and a state school district for having pretended to ignore the executive order of President Donald Trump on transgender athletes in female and female sports.
Maine joins California and Minnesota As states have been studied for continuing to allow biological men to compete with biological women.
“TODAY The US Department of Education’s Office for Civil Rights (OCR) Sent a Letter to the Maine Department of Education Commissioner Pender Makin Announcing That Ocr is Initiating A Direct Investigation of The Maine Department of Education (MDOE) Amid Algaments that it continues to allow Male athletes to participate in athletics Interscholastics of the girls and that he denied only intimate female athletes, violating the federal anti -discrimination law, “Usdoe said in a press release on Friday.
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President Donald Trump and the Governor of Maine Janet Mills clashed on Friday at the White House for compliance with the executive order. (Pool via AP / Win McNamee / Getty Images)
“The letter also informs MDOE that OCR launches an investigation into the administrative district of the Maine school # 51 (MSAD # 51), after being reported that Greely High School, a school under his jurisdiction, continues to allow at least one Male pupil to compete in the categories of girls.
Governor of Trump and Maine, Janet MillsFaced with transgender women in sport on Friday, Trump telling her in the White House that she had to follow her decree, or “you will not get any federal funding”, to which she replied: “We will see you in court.”
“I comply with state and federal laws,” said Mills, before Trump said, “well, we are the federal law” and “you would better do it, you would better do it, because you Do not get federal funding at all if you don’t.
President Donald Trump told the Governor of Maine Janet Mills that his condition had to comply with a decree on transgender athletes in school sports, during an event on Friday, February 21, 2025 at the White House. (Reuters photos | Pool)
Mills published a statement on Friday, saying: “The state of Maine will not be intimidated by the threats of the president.”
Trump promised on Thursday not to give federal money to Maine if the state continues to allow organic men to participate in the athletics of girls and women.
“They always say:” We want men to play in female sports “, and I cannot believe that they do this … So we are not going to give them federal funding, nothing, until What they are cleaning that, “said Trump.
The acting assistant secretary for civil rights Craig Trainor added as part of the announcement of the DOE: “Maine would make you believe that he has no choice of the way he treats women and girls in athletics -That is to say, she must follow her state laws and allow men athletes compete with women and girls.
Democratic Governor Janet Mills delivered his speech on the state of the state on Tuesday, January 30, 2024 at State House in Augusta, in Maine. (AP photo / Robert F. Bukaty)
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The USDOE is also investigating the state of San Jose, Upenn and a Massachusetts high school. Trans Blaire athletes Fleming and Lia Thomas played for SJSU and the Ivy League school, respectively, Thomas winning a title of Division I of the NCAA in 2022.
Trump signed the executive decree “Keep men out of women’s sport” on February 5.
Greg Norman and Jackson Thompson of Fox News contributed to this report.
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