Trump DOJ sues Maine in standoff over transgender athletes in women's sports

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ABC News (16 April 2025)

The Justice Department has filed suit against Maine in an effort to challenge the state's policy regarding transgender athletes competing in girls' and women's sports, Attorney General Pam Bondi announced Wednesday.

The lawsuit alleges Maine's policy violates Title IX and stems from a broader effort by the Trump administration to spotlight an issue that they see as politically damaging for Democrats.

Bondi announced the lawsuit alongside anti-trans activist Riley Gaines and other parents and students from Maine who have objected to the state's policies regarding transgender athletes.

"The Department of Justice will not sit by when women are discriminated against in sports. This is about sports. This is also about these young women's personal safety," Bondi said in remarks at DOJ.

Maine's Democratic Gov. Janet Mills has blasted the Trump administration's efforts to strip federal funding from Maine as executive overreach and downplayed the issue of transgender athletes participating in girls' and women's sporting events.

"Because there are two, maybe two, trans athletes competing in Maine schools right now, they decided to shut off funding for the school nutrition program, the school lunch program, entirely," Mills said in an interview earlier this week on CBS affiliate WGME. "The law says if you don't like what a state is doing over here, you can't just take the funds away over here."

If a man is pretending to be a woman then no way should that man be allowed to compete in a women's sports category.  But how many guys in competitive sports pretend to be a woman! 

That is nuts.  He would be ridiculed.  He would not be a true transwoman. 

It is a different matter when she is a transwoman.  That is not pretending.  It is being who you are.