Washington – Attorney General Pam Bondi announced Wednesday that the Department of Justice is presenting a civil lawsuit against Maine’s Department of Education for “discriminating women by not protecting women in women’s sports” in what Alled IX.
“The Department of Justice will not sit when women are discriminated against in sports,” Bondi said. “These are sports, it is also a personal security thesis.” “
The measure marks an escalation between the Trump and Maine administration on the subject. President Trump Signed an executive order In February, prohibit transgender girls and women from competing in sports teams that coincide with their gender identity, ordering that title IX, the federal law that prohibits sexual discrimination in schools, is interpreted as prohibiting the participation of transgender girls and women in women’s sports. President Trump said states that do not meet the end of the federal funds they receive.
Then, at a tense moment between Mr. Trump and the governor of Maine, Janet Mills, a Democrat, later in February, the president threatened with federal funds if he fulfilled the executive order that prohibits transgender athletes from competing in women’s sports teams. Mills replied: “See you in court.”
The Secretary of Education, Linda McMahon, who appeared with Bondi on Wednesday, said: “I hope that Governor Mills recognizes that his political dispute with the president will deprive students in their state of much more than the right to fair sporting events.”
The attorney general described that the Department of Justice had “exhausted any other remedy”, saying that “he has repeatedly notified Maine Maine of infractions and urged them to remedy the situation to protect women.” Bondi pointed out that the administration has deprived Maine subsidies through other agencies, and “would continue to fight for women.”
The federal government said in its lawsuit filed in the Federal Court of Maine that the State Education Department is “openly flowing and challenging the anti -discrimination law by enforcing the policies that Goirly require for the athletes of the children of the spoja of the spoja of the spoja of the children who participate in the spoil sports of spoisleticia of the girls.
“Consequently, the United States presents this action to stop sexual discrimination without Maine complexes against student athletes,” said the Department of Justice in demand.
Last week, the State of Maine obtained a temporary resting order against the Trump administration, which blocked the Agriculture Department of “Finish, freeze or interfere with the State’s access to federal funds with the statute of bytarations of the State Schools”.
The actions of the Department of Justice against Maine can be followed by similar movements in other states, Bondi said.
“We are looking at Minnesota, we are looking at California,” Bondi said. “We are seeing many, many states, but they are the first two that should be in warning.”