Bondi announces lawsuit against Maine for refusing to ban trans athletes from girls’ sports

The U.S. Justice Department announced a suit against the authorities of Maine for its continued defiance of President Donald Trump’s enforcement bid to support biologic males retired of girls’ and women’s sports and violations of Title IX.

Attorney General Pam Bondi announced the suit astatine a property league connected Wednesday morning. It is the latest section successful the conflict betwixt the authorities and the Trump medication aft a national justice paused a backing frost that was initiated by the U.S. Department of Agriculture (USDA).

Bondi was joined astatine the property league by blimpish activistic Riley Gaines and fencer Stephanie Turner, who precocious drew viral attraction to the contented of trans inclusion successful women's fencing with a clip of her kneeling successful protestation of a trans opponent.

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Attorney General Pam Bondi. (AP Photo/Marta Lavandier)

"The Department of Justice volition not beryllium by erstwhile women are discriminated against successful sports," Bondi said astatine a property conference. "… What they person been done is horrific."

Fox News Digital reached retired to Maine Gov. Janet Mills and Maine Attorney General Aaron Frey’s offices for comment.

"We privation to get states to comply with us," Bondi added.

Bondi said they were seeking an injunction and person titles returned to the girls who "rightfully" won competitions successful which trans athletes participated in.

Turner spoke astir the Justice Department’s suit against the authorities to Fox News Digital.

"It's bittersweet that this has to beryllium a governmental issue, and I deliberation this was a missed accidental by the Democrats to garner enactment among the immense bulk of the United States." Turner said of the property conference. 

"I'm truthful grateful that we person an medication that is taking this contented seriously."

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The announcement of the suit comes astir 2 months aft an infamous hostile speech betwixt Trump and Mills astatine a White House bi-partisan gathering of governors connected Feb. 21. The speech ended with Trump uttering the operation "see you successful court" aft Mills insisted her authorities would garbage to comply with his order.

Now, Trump's medication has made bully connected his vow to instrumentality the contented to court. 

Fencer Stephanie Turner kneels successful beforehand of a USA Fencing official. (Courtesy of ICONS)

The medication has hammered the authorities with national unit to comply with the contented implicit the past 7 weeks, launching aggregate investigations into its acquisition institutions and adjacent cutting backing from the USDA. 

In response, the authorities has launched its ain suit against the medication implicit the caller USDA cuts and a national justice has besides ordered that the backing tin not beryllium frozen. 

Republican absorption wrong the authorities has fought aggressively against Mills, the Democrat bulk successful the legislature and acquisition bodies that person firmly stood successful enactment of trans inclusion. State Rep. Laurel Libby has been a cardinal fig successful this opposition, having drawn attraction to the contented initially with a societal media station identifying a trans jock who won a girls' rod vault contention successful February. 

Now, Libby is gratified to spot the DOJ intervene and instrumentality ineligible enactment against the state. 

"Despite repeated warnings from President Trump, Governor Janet Mills and Maine Democrats person continued to discriminate against Maine women and girls, prioritizing their woke ideology implicit biologic reality. As a result, the Department of Justice has nary prime but to instrumentality enactment against the erasure of women and girls successful sports," Libby told Fox News Digital.

Democratic Gov. Janet Mills delivers her State of the State code connected Jan. 30, 2024 astatine the State House successful Augusta, Maine. (AP Photo/Robert F. Bukaty, File)

"Maine Democrats person doubled down connected their far-left docket and present our students and families basal poised to suffer hundreds of millions successful national funding. Their extremist sex ideology is endangering the continued beingness of women's sports and penalizing Maine students, against the volition of Maine citizens."

Libby is joined by her Republican colleagues successful opposing the Democrat authorization successful the authorities that defies Trump, alongside respective passionate civilians who person spoken retired connected the contented successful caller months.

A schoolhouse territory successful Maine is moving to comply with Trump alternatively of the authorities implicit the issue. The MSAD #70 School Board voted unanimously connected Monday nighttime to comply with Title IX, and Superintendent Tyler Putnam told Fox News Digital that helium volition amend the district's policies to forestall trans athletes from competing successful girls' sports. 

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A Maine genitor named Nick Blanchard precocious garnered nationalist attraction aft helium was chopped disconnected astatine a schoolhouse committee gathering successful Maine's superior metropolis of Augusta portion helium discussed the arguable contented and a petition helium launched to person a schoolhouse head removed from her presumption for supporting trans inclusion. 

Maine precocious schoolhouse pupil Cassidy Carlisle spoke astatine a rally successful Augusta opposing Mills connected the contented and made a travel to the White House to sermon the contented successful her authorities connected Feb. 27. Carlisle was driven to instrumentality enactment connected the contented aft losing to a trans jock successful cross-country and Nordic skiing competitions. Before that, she had to stock a locker country with a trans jock six years agone during a mediate schoolhouse gym class. 

As the struggle successful Maine has go a nationalist issue, the blimpish absorption has besides garnered enactment from salient nationalist activists. 

Nicole Neily, Defending Education laminitis and president, celebrated the ruling successful a connection to Fox News Digital. 

"The Department of Justice’s suit shows that this medication is superior astir prioritizing pupil information – which is simply a invited alteration for parents crossed the country. Maine has made a conscious determination to interruption the archetypal intent of Title IX by allowing antheral information successful pistillate sports, and that enactment has consequences," Neily said. 

American Parents Coalition Executive Director Alleigh Marré told Fox News Digital she believes the Trump medication is sending a beardown connection with this lawsuit.

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"This enactment by the Administration sends a wide connection to parents who person been warring for their daughters’ backstage spaces to beryllium protected and for just diversion competition. Our daughters’ rights and privateness should not beryllium taxable to ideological whims. The adjacent procreation of girls merit a satellite wherever they are protected and respected," Marré said.

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