Bondi slams Maine gov for brushing off trans athlete issue

Attorney General Pam Bondi slammed Maine Gov. Janet Mills connected Wednesday aft the Democratic lawmaker downplayed the transgender jock contention successful her state.

Bondi said connected "America’s Newsroom" with Bill Hemmer and Dana Perino that Mills was "very wrong" to simply brushwood disconnected the transgender jock contented due to the fact that determination were lone 2 cases successful the state. Maine has refused to change its policies to support biologic males retired of girls’ and women’s sports.

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Attorney General Pam Bondi looks connected during a Cabinet gathering astatine the White House successful Washington, D.C., connected Monday, March 24, 2025. (Samuel Corum/Sipa/Bloomberg via Getty Images)

"First, to accidental lone 2 is shocking. We gave 2 examples … First of all, these are boys successful girls’ locker room," Bondi said. "One is excessively many. It’s ridiculous what she said, and it doesn’t conscionable impact 1 young pistillate – it affects the full team. It affects the full team, the full athletics wrong that school.

"These young women are not being capable to vie due to the fact that of a boy. The lad successful 2024 came successful 43rd successful his class successful way and field. When helium competed successful the women’s sport, helium won. Governor Mills shouldn’t person said that, shouldn’t person done this, should beryllium supporting women successful the authorities of Maine. And we’re going to combat for them if they’re not."

Mills appeared connected MSNBC’s "Morning Joe" to sermon her conflict with respective departments of the Trump administration, which started erstwhile the authorities refused to comply with President Donald Trump’s "No Men successful Women’s Sports" enforcement bid which prohibited biologic males successful girls’ and women’s sports.

The quality came aft a justice barred the U.S. Department of Agriculture (USDA) from freezing funds for Maine. All of it stemmed from the state’s refusal to comply with Title IX rules.

Pam Bondi recognizes household and friends successful attendance arsenic she delivers opening remarks during a Senate Judiciary committee proceeding connected her information to beryllium lawyer wide of the United States connected Jan. 15, 2025 successful Washington, D.C. (Jack Gruber / USA TODAY NETWORK via Imagn Images)

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"The main enforcement is required by the Constitution to instrumentality attraction that the laws beryllium faithfully executed, not to marque the laws, not to invent the laws oregon reinterpret the laws by tweet oregon Instagram station oregon property merchandise oregon enforcement order. He’s not allowed to bash that."

Mills recalled the letters she received from the Department of Education, the USDA and the Department of Health and Human Services. She described an April 2 missive from USDA Secretary Brooke Rollins arsenic "rather appalling" and said immoderate described it arsenic a "ransom note." 

In the letter, the medication threatened to chopped disconnected backing for Maine due to the fact that of the state’s continued allowance of biologic males successful girls’ and women’s sports.

"The precise adjacent day, due to the fact that determination are possibly astatine astir 2 transgender athletes competing successful Maine schools close now, they decided to unopen disconnected backing for our schoolhouse nutrition program, the schoolhouse luncheon program, entirely, connected which 172,000 Maine schoolchildren trust connected for their schoolhouse meals. That didn’t marque immoderate sense," Mills said.

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)

She added that the lawsuits against the authorities were "not rational."

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Bondi announced a Justice Department civilian suit against Maine implicit its refusal to prohibition transgender athletes from women’s sports.

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