Maine vs. Trump: school officials challenge the ultimatum to protect sports girls
The officials of a school district in Maine announced on Thursday that the district will not respect an agreement proposed with the president Donald Trump The administration that would prevent transgender athletes from participating in women’s sports.
Administrative District of Maine School 51, headquarters of the Greely High School, where an incited transgender athlete national dispute After winning a competition for the jump with female pole in February, he said that he is not respecting and instead “he will continue to follow the state law and the Maine Human Rights Act”.
“For our students: thanks for your maturity, perseverance and dedication to learning through these distractions. Please continue to open the way,” said the district in a note.
The association of the main Maine has declared in a declaration that is also “bound by the law, including the Maine Human Rights Law, that our participation policy reflects”.
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The institutions opted to challenge the Trump order despite the recent data that suggest that most of the Maine residents oppose transgender athletes in girls sports.
A survey of The coalition of American parents discovered that out of about 600 registered Maine voters, 63% said that school sports participation should be based on biological sex and 66% have agreed that it is “only just to limit women’s sports to biological women”.
The survey also discovered that 60% of the residents would support a voting measure that limits participation In Women and girls sports a Biological females. This included 64% of independent and 66% of parents with children under the age of 18.
The situation involving a trans athlete to the Grely High School attracted national attention after the representative of the Republican State of the Maine Laurel Libby identified the athlete by name with a photograph in a post on social media in February.
Police protection He was subsequently assigned to the school for security problems.
The legislature of Maine has therefore centstrated libby for the place, and since then it has filed a cause that tried to overturn the censorship.
A feud between Trump and the governor of Maine Janet Mills began on February 20 during a meeting of the Governors’ meeting, when Trump threatened to cut federal funding to the state for not having forbidden transhoes from girls and women’s sports.
The next day, the Mills office responded with a declaration that threatened a legal action against the Trump administration if he retained federal funding from the state. Hence, Trump and Mills verbally spared a discussion widely advertised to the White House during a bipartisan meeting of the governors.
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“Are you not going to respect this?” Trump asked Mills.
Since then, multiple protests against Mills have been kept outside the Capitol and the Maine university system has collaborated with the Trump administration to ensure that no Trans Competua athlete in women’s sports after a temporary financing break.
Last week, the civil rights office of the United States and human services (OCR) he announced that he found The Department of Education of Maine, the Maine Principals’ Association and Greely High School in violation of the IX title for continuing to allow trans inclusion in sports sports.
The announcement warned that the state had 10 days to correct its policies through an agreement signed or a reference to the risk to the United States Department of Justice for the appropriate actions. That deadline passed on Thursday.
The interim ocr director Anthony Archevale has previously provided a declaration A Fox News Digital Warning of the potential consequences for the continuous challenge of the executive order.
“What HHS asks the Department of Maine Education Department, at the Maine Principali ‘Association (MPA) and Grely High School is simple-protrusing the rights of the athletes. The girls deserve sports for girls without male competitors. And if Maine does not come to the table to voluntarily conform with the IX title, HHS will impose the IX title for the maximum extension by the law,” the archaevo.
The Associated Press has contributed to this report.
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