Attorney General Pam Bondi announced a Civil demand against the state of Maine On Wednesday about the refusal of officials to comply with the policies of the Trump administration, except for the transgender competitors of women of women and women’s sports.
The Department of Justice is accusing Maine to make fun
“It’s not just a sports problem, it’s a public security problem,” Bondi told journalists. “These guys are Allowed to go to the residual room of women. They are allowed to go to the women’s dressing room and undress and change … in front of these young women. “
“We are also consulting if they retroactively withdrew all the funds that have resorted to not comply with in the past,” added the AG.
President Trump Signed an executive order on February 5 Direct the Department of Education that “take all appropriate measures to affirm the athletic opportunities of women and totally feminine changing rooms” and make it clear “that women’s sports are reserved for women” and liquidate superior demands in a way. “”
Days later, a transgender competitor of the Grelyy of Cumberland school, which competes under the name of “Katie”, won the state class B girls championship in pole jumping.
That same week, Trump faced the Democrat of Maine Janet Mills duration of a White House eventRepresenting that she “better meet” the order.
A challenging Mills replied: “See you in court.”
The Trump administration had warned Maine, California and Minnesota earlier this year that they would not “not tolerate state officials who ignore federal law.”
The Department of Education later Opened a civil right Investigate Maine and Trump Demanded a “complete” apology From Mills later UMSA network of eight public universities in the State agreed to comply with the order.
“The state of Maine is discriminating women by not protecting the sports from women and women,” Bondi said Wednesday. “Quite basic things. This is a violation of title IX. The Department of Justice will not sit when women are discriminated against in sports.”
“We have exhausted any other remedy,” the AG explained. “We try to make Maine meet. We don’t like to stand here and present demands, we want states to meet us.”
“Today is the last and expected saves in an unprecedented campaign to press the State of Mainore to ignore the Constitution and leave the rule of law,” ” Mills responded in a statement.
“This issue has never passed on school sports or women and girls, as stated, it is the rule of law of the states against a federal government, impose their will, instead of defending the law.”
Bondi joined the Secretary of Education Linda McMahon and the former University swimmer turned into conservative activist Riley Gaines.
“The Trump administration could not be clearer for all state sports leagues and educational institutions,” McMahon emphasized. “We take the violations of women’s civil rights very seriously. I have three granddaughters and I want to make sure they are treated fairly.”
Last month, the Department of Education concluded its investigation or the mine and sent its findings to the Department of Justice.
The Department of Justice had also reduced $ 1.5 million in federal subsidies for the Maine Department of Corrections and the Agriculture Department announced that it was also withdrawing funds in protest of the management of the state of the State of the State.
State officials have sued the Trump administration for fund freezing.
“That this is a notice [to] California, Minnesota [and] The tastes of the same: if it does not comply with the federal law, it cannot reap the benefits of complying with the federal law. Or of course, one of those benefits of federal federal funds of bees, “Gaines warned.
The state representative Laurel Libby, who has opposed Maine’s policies in transgender athletes in women’s sports, hit his status for refusing to move.
“Maine’s Democrats have doubled on their extreme left agenda and now our students and families are about to lose hundreds of millions in federal funds,” he said in a statement.
“His radical gender ideology is endangering the continuous existence of women’s sports and penalizing Maine’s students, against the will of Maine’s citizens.”
