Trump administration refers Maine to DOJ over transgender athletes

[Lori Dee]

Trump administration refers Maine to DOJ over transgender athletes
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The Hill - Brooke Migdon
04/11/25 3:31 PM ET

The Department of Education on Friday referred a Title IX investigation into Maine schools to the Justice Department after the state failed to reach a resolution with the Trump administration over a finding that it violated federal anti-discrimination law by allowing transgender students to participate in girls' sports.

Both the Department of Education and the Department of Health and Human Services (HHS), which recently began investigating schools and states that allow transgender athletes to compete in girls' sports, said in March that Maine had violated Title IX, the federal civil rights law against sex discrimination that the Trump White House says prohibits trans athletes from competing on girls' and women's teams.

The move by the U.S. Department of Education is the latest development in an ongoing battle between the Trump administration and Maine over the state's refusal to implement President Trump's executive order to ban trans athletes from girls' and women's sports.

State officials, including Mills and Attorney General Aaron Frey (D), have argued Trump's executive order conflicts with the Maine Human Rights Act, which explicitly protects the right of transgender students to participate on sports teams that match their gender identity.

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I think it would be hilarious if they go to court and demand that Trump's attorneys name the trans athletes that are causing the alleged violation... and there are none. 

[Lori Dee]

UPDATE:  Source Link
Federal judge rules Trump administration must 'unfreeze' funds to Maine as trans battle lingers
The USDA is also 'barred' from freezing funds, the ruling states
FOX News -  Ryan Morik Fox News
Published April 11, 2025 7:23pm EDT

A federal judge said the Trump administration must lift their freeze on federal funding to Maine.

The ruling reads that the USDA "must immediately unfreeze and release to the state of Maine any federal funding that they have frozen or failed or refused to pay because of the state of Maine's alleged failure to comply with the requirements of Title IX."

The administration is also "barred from freezing, terminating, or otherwise interfering with the state of Maine's future federal funding for alleged violations of Title IX without complying with the legally required procedure."

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