HHS' Civil Rights Office finds Maine in violation of Title IX for allowing biological males in women's sports

The U.S. Department of Health and Human Services (HHS) Office for Civil Rights (OCR) announced connected Monday that the Maine Department of Education, the Maine Principals’ Association and Greely High School are each successful usurpation of Title IX. 

The Trump medication expanded its Title IX probe into Maine past week, citing violations of President Trump’s enforcement bid stating biologic males are not allowed to vie successful women’s sports successful acquisition and diversion institutions. 

The Maine Principals’ Association, which is the governing assemblage of precocious schoolhouse athletics successful the state, and Greely High School were some added to the database of Maine institutions HHS was investigating. The OCR besides announced past period it was investigating the Maine Department of Education "based connected accusation that Maine intends to defy" Trump’s enforcement order. 

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US President Donald Trump speaks successful the Oval Office of the White House successful Washington, DC. (Chris Kleponis/CNP/Bloomberg via Getty Images)

Four days aft that announcement, HHS issued a "Notice of Violation."

Now, the OCR’s determination missive to the 3 entities is offering them an accidental to "voluntarily perpetrate wrong 10 days to resoluteness the substance done a signed statement oregon hazard referral to the U.S. Department of Justice for due action."

This comes aft the probe from the OCR recovered each 3 entities are obligated to comply with Title IX and violated Title IX. 

HHS EXPANDS TITLE IX PROBE IN MAINE TO INCLUDE STATE ASSOCIATION GOVERNING ATHLETICS, EMBATTLED HIGH SCHOOL

"The Maine Department of Education whitethorn not shirk its obligations nether Federal instrumentality by ceding power of its extracurricular activities, programs, and services to the Maine Principals’ Association," Anthony Archeval, Acting Director of the OCR astatine HHS, said successful a property release. "We anticipation the Maine Department of Education, the Maine Principals’ Association, and Greely High School volition enactment with america to travel to an statement that restores fairness successful women’s sports."  

Trump’s Executive Order 14201, amended known arsenic "Keeping Men retired of Women’s Sports," was signed to "protect pistillate pupil athletes, successful the women’s category, from having to ‘compete with oregon against oregon having to look unclothed earlier males.’" In turn, the enforcement bid besides mandated each national section to "review grants to acquisition programs and, wherever appropriate, rescind backing to programs that neglect to comply with the argumentation established successful this order."

That’s precisely what happened successful Maine, arsenic the state’s Department of Education received astir $1 cardinal from HHS sub-agencies alone, which Maine House Republicans said successful a property merchandise this past week.

Maine State Rep. Laurel Libby is sounding the alarm implicit the state's defiance of President Donald Trump's Executive Order demanding an extremity to biologic males competing successful women's sports. (Getty/Maine House of Representatives)

Republican legislators successful Maine called connected Gov. Janet Mills, a Democrat, to comply with Trump’s enforcement bid with millions successful national backing for K-12 schools being threatened arsenic a effect of not doing so. 

"If Maine Democrats proceed to treble down connected allowing biologic males to enactment successful girls' sports, our students basal to suffer hundreds of millions of dollars of national funding. Gov. [Janet] Mills and legislative Democrats person a renewed accidental to bash the close thing, to guarantee restored backing and a just and level playing tract for Maine girls," authorities Rep. Laurel Libby, R–Auburn, said this past Thursday. 

Libby became a salient fig successful this Maine statement aft posting a Greely High School rod vaulter connected societal media. The rod vaulter competed arsenic precocious arsenic June 2024 arsenic a biologic male, and ended up winning a authorities title arsenic a woman. 

Democrats successful the Maine authorities legislature censured Libby for the post, which showed the jock competing arsenic a male, portion adjacent to an representation of the jock winning the women’s pole-vaulting contention successful the Maine Class B indoor title successful February. 

Trump called retired Maine soon aft Libby’s station began to disturbance up debate. Trump had a nationalist statement with Gov. Mills astatine the White House, wherever helium threatened authorities backing if Maine didn’t "clean that up." Mills replied that she would spot Trump "in court."

Maine Gov. Janet Mills and President Donald Trump astatine the White House connected Friday. (Getty Images)

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Mills, successful congruence with the Maine Principals’ Association, argues that Trump’s enforcement bid conflicts with Maine’s existent Human Rights law. As a result, pursuing the enforcement bid would defy authorities law, which presently allows diversion information based connected the person’s stated sex identity.

"No President – Republican oregon Democrat – tin withhold national backing authorized and appropriated by Congress and paid for by Maine taxpayers successful an effort to coerce idiosyncratic into compliance with his will," Mills said successful a connection erstwhile the HHS initially announced its investigation. "It is simply a usurpation of our Constitution and of our laws, which I took an oath to uphold."

Fox News’ Alec Schemmel contributed to this report.

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