Washington – Trump’s administration said he sued Maine’s education department for not complying with government pressure on the ban on transgender athletes in girls’ sports and escalating the dispute as to whether the state adheres to the Federal law that prohibits discrimination against sex.
The Court watches the weeks of the fight between the Republican administration and the democratic government of Janet Mills, who led to the threats to interrupt the key federal financing and clash in the White House when she told the president, “We’ll see you.”
“We will continue to fight for women,” said the General Prosecutor Pam Bondi at a press conference along with the former Swimmer of the University of Kentucky Riley Gaines, who became the public face of the opposition to Transgender’s athletes.
Trump’s Department of Education and Health and Human Services said that Maine agency violates the Federal Act on IX anti -discrimination by allowing transgender to the girls to participate in girls’ teams.
The Court of Justice reflects a distinctive philosophical tournament from the position of gender identity that took place during the democratic administration.
On behalf of President Joe Biden, the government tried to expand civil rights policies to the protection of people’s transgender. In 2016, the Ministry of Justice, then led by the Prosecutor Loretta Lynch, sued North Carolina over a law that required transgender people to use public toilets and showers that corresponded to sex in their birth certificate.
Maine officials refused to agree to the settlement that would ban transgender students in sports, and claim that the law does not prevent schools to participate in Transgender’s athletes.
In February, Trump signed a executive order “Men’s Men Outside Female Sports”, which provided federal agencies to a wide width to ensure that the entities that receive federal financing adhere to the head IX in accordance with the interpretation of the “sex” of its administration because someone was assigned at birth.
Trump was connected to sign this order Gaines and other female athletes that supported the ban. The Gaines was tied to the transgender athlete in fifth place at the NCAA 2022 championship and testified before the legislators across the country in this matter. She and others frame this problem as the rights of women.
During the February meeting with Governors Trump, he threatened to pull out federal funding from Maine unless the state did not fulfill its executive order. Mills replied, “See you in court.”
Maine sued the administration this month after the Ministry of Agriculture stated that the state educational programs had stopped some money because of what the administration claimed that Maine’s failure to comply with the IX head. On Friday, the federal judge ordered the administration to release the funds intended for the Main Child Nutrition Program.
Sarah Foster, General Prosecutor Maine, said last week in a letter to the Ministry of Education that nothing in the law “forbids schools to allow transgender girls and women to participate in girls’ and female sports teams”.
People’s rights have become the main political problem over the past five years.
Twenty -six states have laws or politicians that exclude transgender girls from girls’ school sports. The GOP -controlled states also prohibit health care for a minor gender and limit the use of bathrooms in schools and sometimes other public buildings.
In his 2024 race, Trump led the campaign against the participation of Transgender’s athletes in sports. As president, he signed a executive order and used a rigid definition of gender than gender for the purposes of the federal government. The orders are questioned in court.
