Justice Department tasked with enforcing Trump’s transgender sports ban in Maine
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Maine officials said Friday the state will not comply with a ban on transgender athletes in high school sports in the wake of a Trump administration finding that the state violated antidiscrimination laws by allowing the students to participate.
Maine officials said Friday the state will not comply with a ban on transgender athletes in high school sports in the wake of a Trump administration finding that the state violated antidiscrimination laws by allowing the students to participate. The US Education Department said in March that an investigation concluded the Maine Department of Education violated the federal Title IX law by allowing transgender girls to participate on girls’ teams. The investigation followed a public disagreement between Democratic Maine Gov. Janet Mills and President Donald Trump at a February meeting of governors. The US Education Department’s Office for Civil Rights issued a final warning on March 31, telling the state it needed to comply with the law in 10 business days or face enforcement from the US Justice Department. That deadline arrived Friday, and the Education Department said it referred its investigation to the DOJ for further enforcement. Maine and the federal government are at an impasse, as the state will not sign a resolution proposed by the Trump administration to resolve the disagreement by banning the transgender athletes, said Maine Assistant Attorney General Sarah Forster in a letter to the Education Department. “Nothing in Title IX or its implementing regulations prohibits schools from allowing transgender girls and women to participate on girls’ and women’s sports teams,” Forster’s letter stated. “Your letters to date do not cite a single case that so holds.” Trump has said the state risks losing federal funding if it does not come into compliance. Friday, the Education Department said it was also taking steps toward the termination of Maine’s education funding.
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