Trump admin refers Maine's 'noncompliance with Title IX' to DOJ amid fight over trans athletes

The U.S. Department of Health and Human Services' (HHS) Office for Civil Rights (OCR) connected Friday said it referred Maine’s "noncompliance" with Title IX rules to the Justice Department for enforcement.

Maine has continued to defy President Donald Trump’s enforcement bid to prohibition trans athletes from women’s and girls’ sports. The HHS gave the authorities 10 days to close its policies done a signed statement oregon hazard referral to the Justice Department.

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Maine Gov. Janet Mills speaks during the Governors Working Session successful the State Dining Room of the White House successful Washington, D.C., connected Feb. 21. (Francis Chung/Politico/Bloomberg via Getty Images)

"Today, OCR referred Maine’s noncompliance with Title IX to @TheJusticeDept for enforcement successful tribunal for continuing to unlawfully let males to vie against females," the section announced successful a station connected X. 

"HHS volition proceed to support women’s sports and support the promises of Title IX for America’s women and girls."

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

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." 

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The Maine State House is seen successful Augusta, Maine, connected June 9, 2011. (AP Photo/Robert F. Bukaty, File)

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.

Trump signed the "No Men successful Women’s Sports" enforcement bid successful aboriginal February, which led to aggregate athletics associations complying with it and a fistful thumbing their chemoreceptor astatine the order. The contented with the authorities of Maine came to a caput astatine a gathering of the National Governors Association.

Trump threatened to chopped national backing to the authorities for not banning biologic males from girls’ and women’s sports.

The adjacent day, Mills' bureau responded with a connection threatening ineligible enactment against the Trump medication if it did withhold 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.

"Are you not going to comply with that?" Trump asked Mills.

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.

President Donald Trump and Maine Gov. Janet Mills clashed astatine the White House past period implicit enforcement bid compliance. (Pool via AP/Win McNamee/Getty Images)

The OCR announced past week it recovered the Maine Department of Education, the Maine Principals' Association and Greely High School successful usurpation of Title IX for continuing to alteration trans inclusion successful girls' sports.

OCR Acting Director Anthony Archeval antecedently provided a connection to Fox News Digital informing of imaginable consequences for continued defiance of the enforcement order.

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"What HHS is asking of the Maine Department of Education, the Maine Principals' Association (MPA) and Greely High School is elemental — support pistillate athletes’ rights. Girls merit girls-only sports without antheral competitors. And if Maine won’t travel to the array to voluntarily comply with Title IX, HHS volition enforce Title IX to the fullest grade permitted by the law," Archeval said.

Fox News’ Jackson Thompson and The Associated Press contributed to this report.

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