The U.S. Division of Training has given Maine a ultimate warning to adjust to President Donald Trump’s govt order to ban trans athletes from women’ sports activities.
The DOE despatched a letter to the Maine Division of Training (MDOE) on Monday advising a ultimate deadline of April 11 to handle the difficulty or danger a second referral to the Division of Justice. The Division of Well being and Human Companies already referred Maine to the DOJ final week.
“The Maine Department of Education’s indifference to its past, current, and future female athletes is astonishing. By refusing to comply with Title IX, MDOE allows—indeed, encourages—male competitors to threaten the safety of female athletes, wrongfully obtain girls’ hard-earned accolades, and deny females equal opportunity in educational activities to which they are guaranteed under Title IX,” the letter learn.
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“Under prior administrations, enforcement was an illusory proposition. No more. The Trump-McMahon Education Department is moving quickly to ensure that federal funds no longer support patently illegal practices that harm women and girls.”
Fox Information Digital has reached out to MDOE for remark.
HHS’s Workplace for Civil Rights introduced Friday that it had referred Maine’s “noncompliance” with Title IX guidelines to the DOJ for enforcement, together with the MDOE, Maine Principal’s Affiliation and Greely Excessive Faculty, the place a trans athlete who received a women’ pole vault competitors attends.
The Maine Faculty Administrative District 51, house to Greely Excessive Faculty, the place a transgender athlete incited nationwide controversy after profitable a women’ pole vault competitors in February, stated Thursday it was not complying and can as a substitute “continue to follow state law and the Maine Human Rights Act.”
The Maine Principals’ Affiliation stated in an announcement it is usually “bound by the law, including the Maine Human Rights Act, which our participation policy reflects.”
Maine has grow to be a nationwide battleground over the difficulty shortly after the state indicated in early February that it might not observe Trump’s govt order.
The state of affairs involving the trans athlete at Greely Excessive Faculty attracted nationwide consideration after Maine Republican state Rep. Laurel Libby recognized the athlete by title with {a photograph} in a social media submit. Libby was later censured by the Maine legislature, and she or he has since filed a lawsuit to have it overturned.
The problem with Maine got here to a head at a gathering of the Nationwide Governors Affiliation on Feb. 20, when Trump threatened to chop federal funding to the state for not banning organic males from women’ and ladies’s sports activities.
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The following day, Mills’ workplace responded with an announcement threatening authorized motion in opposition to the Trump administration if it withheld federal funding from the state. Then Trump and Mills verbally sparred in a extensively publicized argument on the White Home throughout a bipartisan assembly of governors.
Since then, a number of protests in opposition to Mills have been held outdoors the state Capitol, and the Maine College System has cooperated with the Trump administration to make sure no trans athletes compete in ladies’s sports activities after a brief funding pause.
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