Trump admin responds to Maine's reluctance to ban trans athletes from girls' sports

As Maine continues to defy President Donald Trump's enforcement bid to prohibition trans athletes from girls' sports, the medication has ramped up its absorption connected the authorities arsenic 1 of the cardinal battlegrounds implicit the issue. 

Earlier this week, Health and Human Services' Office of Civil Rights (OCR) officially announced it recovered the Maine Department of Education, the Maine Principals' Association and Greely High School successful usurpation of Title IX for its continued enabling of trans inclusion successful girls' sports. 

Now, OCR acting manager Anthony Archeval has provided a connection to Fox News Digital informing of imaginable consequences for continued defiance of the enforcement order. 

"What HHS is asking of the Maine Department of Education, the Maine Principals’ Association, 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. 

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HHS' archetypal announcement that the entities had violated Title IX besides warned that the authorities had 10 days to close its policies done a signed statement oregon hazard referral to the U.S. Department of Justice for due action.

The Trump medication precocious has reportedly made bully connected its vow to chopped national backing to enforce the enforcement order. On Wednesday, FOX Business reported that $175 cardinal successful national backing to the University of Pennsylvania has been paused implicit its past inclusion of trans athletes successful women's sports. 

Last week, a impermanent intermission was enactment connected Department of Agriculture backing to Maine University System, Fox News Digital reported. That backing has since been reinstated. 

Now, Archeval's informing comes 1 time aft the Maine Principal's Association issued a effect to the Trump administration's declaration that the authorities had violated Title IX. 

"The alleged usurpation is owed to MPA’s argumentation which is simply a nonstop effect of the Maine Human Rights Acts mandate that athletes beryllium allowed to enactment connected the teams which align with their sex identity. MPA’s argumentation is accordant with Maine State Law," the effect read.

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The Maine State House astatine dawn connected Jan. 3, 2024, successful Augusta. (AP Photo/Robert F. Bukaty)

"The determination that MPA has violated Title IX archetypal requires that MPA beryllium beholden to Title IX owed to receiving nonstop oregon indirect backing from the national government. In short, a tiny information of our backing comes from 151 subordinate schools who person the bulk of their backing from section spot taxes and the state. The immense bulk of our backing comes from summons sales, sponsorships, streaming, tv and different contracts. Therefore, it is MPA’s presumption that HHS does not person Title IX jurisdiction implicit MPA." 

HHS served a announcement of usurpation to the authorities of Maine connected Feb. 25 and declared the authorities violated Title IX by allowing trans athletes to vie successful girls' sports, Fox News Digital reported. HHS aboriginal expanded the scope of the probe to see the Maine Principals' Association and Greely High School. 

Maine became a focal constituent connected the contented aft authorities lawmaker Laurel Libby pointed retired a biologic antheral had won a girls' rod vault contention for Greely High School successful aboriginal February.

Trump past vowed to chopped backing to the authorities for refusing to travel his bid connected Feb. 20, during a gathering of GOP governors.

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

Just hours aft that interaction, the U.S. Department of Education announced it would analyse the authorities for allowing trans athletes to vie successful girls' sports and for imaginable Title IX violations. 

Meanwhile, Libby has since been censured by the authorities legislature implicit her archetypal societal media station that pointed retired the trans athlete, and she has filed a suit successful an effort to person the censure overturned. 

The contention has adjacent incited a protestation against Mills called the "March Against Mills" extracurricular Maine's State House connected March 1. 

Fox News' CB Cotton contributed to this report.

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