Federal agency gives Maine final warning to ban trans athletes from girls' sports

The U.S. Department of Education has fixed Maine a last informing to comply with President Donald Trump's enforcement bid to prohibition trans athletes from girls' sports. 

The DOE sent a missive to the Maine Department of Education (MDOE) connected Monday advising a last deadline of April 11 to code the contented oregon hazard a 2nd referral to the Department of Justice. The Department of Health and Human Services already referred Maine to the DOJ past week. 

"The Maine Department of Education’s indifference to its past, current, and aboriginal pistillate athletes is astonishing. By refusing to comply with Title IX, MDOE allows—indeed, encourages—male competitors to endanger the information of pistillate athletes, wrongfully get girls’ hard-earned accolades, and contradict females adjacent accidental successful acquisition activities to which they are guaranteed nether Title IX," the missive read. 

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"Under anterior administrations, enforcement was an illusory proposition. No more. The Trump-McMahon Education Department is moving rapidly to guarantee that national funds nary longer enactment patently amerciable practices that harm women and girls."

Fox News Digital has reached retired to MDOE for comment. 

HHS's Office for Civil Rights announced Friday that it had referred Maine’s "noncompliance" with Title IX rules to the DOJ for enforcement, including the MDOE, Maine Principal's Association and Greely High School, wherever a trans jock who won a girls' rod vault contention attends. 

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The Maine School Administrative District 51, location to Greely High School, wherever a transgender jock incited nationalist contention aft winning a girls' rod vault contention successful February, said Thursday it was not complying and volition alternatively "continue to travel authorities instrumentality and the Maine Human Rights Act."

The Maine Principals' Association said successful a connection it is besides "bound by the law, including the Maine Human Rights Act, which our information argumentation reflects." 

Maine has go a nationalist battleground implicit the contented soon aft the authorities indicated successful aboriginal February that it would not travel Trump's enforcement order.

The concern involving the trans jock astatine Greely High School attracted nationalist attraction aft Maine Republican authorities Rep. Laurel Libby identified the jock by sanction with a photograph successful a societal media post. Libby was aboriginal censured by the Maine legislature, and she has since filed a suit to person it overturned.

The contented with Maine came to a caput astatine a gathering of the National Governors Association connected Feb. 20, erstwhile Trump threatened to chopped national backing to the authorities for not banning biologic males from girls’ and women’s sports.

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The adjacent day, Mills' bureau responded with a connection threatening ineligible enactment against the Trump medication if it withheld national backing from the state. Then Trump and Mills verbally sparred successful a wide publicized statement astatine the White House during a bipartisan gathering of governors.

Since then, aggregate protests against Mills person been held extracurricular the authorities Capitol, and the Maine University System has cooperated with the Trump medication to guarantee nary trans athletes vie successful women's sports aft a impermanent backing pause.

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