The United States Department of Justice announced a lawsuit against the State of Maine for its continuous challenge to the executive order of President Donald Trump to keep biological men out of sports and violations of girls and women of Title IX.
Attorney General Pam Bondi announced the lawsuit at a press conference on Wednesday morning. It is the last chapter of the battle between the State and the Trump administration after a federal judge stopped a freezing of funds that was initiated by the United States Department of Agriculture (USDA).
Bondi joined the press conference by the conservative activist Riley Gaines and the fencer Stephanie Turner, who recently caught viral attention on the issue of trans inclusion in the fences of women with a clip of their kneeling in protest for a trans opponent.
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Attorney General Pam Bondi. (AP Photo/Marta Lavandier)
“The Department of Justice will not sit when women are discriminated against in sports,” Bondi said at a press conference. “… what has happened is horrible.”
Fox News Digital communicated with the governor of Maine Janet Mills and the offices of Maine Aaron Frey attorney to comment.
“We want states to comply with us,” Bondi added.
Bondi said they were looking for a court order and that the titles returned to the girls that “legitimately” won competitions in which trans athletes participated.
Turner talked about the lawyer of justice against the State to Fox News Digital.
“It is sad that this has to be a political problem, and I think this was a lost opportunity of the Democrats to obtain support among the vast majority of the United States.” Turner said about the press conference.
“I am very grateful that we have an administration that is taking this problem seriously.”
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The announcement of the demand occurs almost two months after an infamous hostile exchange between Trump and Mills in a bipartisan meeting of Governors of the White House on February 21. The exchange ended with Trump pronouncing the phrase “seeing it in court” after Mills insisted that his condition would refuse to fulfill his order.
Now, the Trump administration has fulfilled its vote of taking the issue to court.
The Stephanie Turner feet is kneeling in front of a Fencing official from the United States. (Courtesy of the icons)
The administration has hit the State with federal pressure to comply with the problem in the last seven weeks, launching multiple research in its educational institutions and even cutting USDA funds.
In response, the State has launched its own lawsuit against the administration of the recent cuts of the USDA and a federal judge also ordered that the funds cannot freeze.
The Republican opposition within the State has fought aggressively against Mills, the Democratic majority in the Legislature and the educational organizations that have been firmly maintained in support of trans inclusion. The state representative Laurel Libby has been a central figure in this opposition, having drawn attention to the problem initially with a publication of social networks that identifies a trans athlete who won a girl pole jump competition in February in February.
Now, Libby is satisfied to see the DOJ intervene and take legal actions against the State.
“Despite the repeated warnings of President Trump, Governor Janet Mills and Maine’s Democrats have continued to discriminate against Maine’s women and girls, prioritizing her ideology aroused over biological reality. As a result, the Department of Justice has no choice but to take measures against the erase of women and girls in sports,” Libby told Fox News Digital.
Democratic governor Janet Mills delivered her speech on the state of the State on January 30, 2024 at the State of the State in Augusta, Maine. (AP Photo/Robert F. Bukaty, Archive)
“Maine’s Democrats have doubled on their extreme left agenda and now our students and families are about to lose hundreds of millions in federal funds. Their radical gender ideology is endangering the continuous existence of women’s sports and penalizing Maine’s students, against the will of Maine citizens.”
Libby joins his Republican colleagues to oppose the Democratic authority in the state that challenges Trump, along with several passionate civilians who have talked about the issue in recent months.
TO School district In Maine he is moving to comply with Trump instead of the state on the subject. The MSAD #70 School Board voted unanimously on Monday night to comply with title IX, and Superintendent Tyler Putnam told Fox News Digital that it will amend district policies to prevent Trans athletes from competing in girls sports.
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An Maine’s father named Nick Blanchard recently attracted national attention after He was cut At a meeting of the School Board in the capital city of Maine, Augusta, while discussing the controversial issue and a request that he launched for a school administrator to withdraw from his position to support the trans inclusion.
Maine high school student Cassidy Carlisle I spoke in a demonstration in Augusta opposing Mills on the subject and made a trip to the White House to discuss the issue in its state on February 27. Carlisle was driven to take action on the subject after losing to a trans athlete in ski competitions through the country and Nordic. Before that, I had to share a costume with a trans athlete six years during a secondary gymnastics class.
As the conflict in Maine has become a national problem, the conservative opposition has also obtained the support of prominent national activists.
Nicole Neily, founder and president of the defended education, celebrated the ruling in a statement to Fox News Digital.
“The demand of the Department of Justice shows that this administration takes seriously the prioritization of students’ safety, which is a change of welcome to parents throughout the country. Maine has made a conscious decision to violate the original intention of title IX by allowing male participation in women’s sports, and that action has consequences,” said Neily.
The executive director of American Parents Coalition, Alleight Marré, told Fox News Digital that he believes that the Trump administration is sending a strong message with this demand.
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“This administration action sends a clear message to parents who have been struggling that their daughters’ private spaces are protected and fair athletic competition. The rights and privacy of our daughters should not be subject to ideological whims. The next generation of girls deserves a world where they are protected and respected,” said Maré.
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