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Officials of a school district in Maine announced Thursday that the district will not fulfill an agreement proposed with the President Donald Trump’s Administration that would prohibit transgender athletes in girls from girls.
Administrative District of Maine 51, Grelyly High School’s home, where a transgender athlete incited national controversy After winning a girl pole jumping competition in February, she said she is not complying and instead “will continue to follow the state law and the Maine Human Rights Law.”
“To our students: thanks for their maturity, perseverance and dedication to learning through these distractions. Continue to lead the way,” the district told a statement.
The Association of Directors of Maine said in a statement that it is also “bound by law, including the Maine Human Rights Law, which reflects our participation policy.”
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The institutions have chosen to challenge Trump’s order despite the recent data that suggests that most Maine residents oppose transgender athletes in girls’ sports.
TO survey The coalition of American parents discovered that about 600 registered voters of Maine, 63% said that school sports participation should be based on biological sex, and 66% agreed that it is “just restricting women’s sports to biological women.”
The survey also found that 60% of residents would admit a voting measure that limits participation in Women and girls sports for biological females. This included 64% of independents and 66% of parents with children under 18.
The situation that involved a Trans athlete in Grelyly High School attracted national attention after Maine’s Republican state representative, Laurel Libby, identified the athlete by name with a photograph in a publication on social networks in February.
Police protection He was later assigned to school about security concerns.
Maine’s legislature then censored Libby for the position, and since then has filed a lawsuit that seeks to revoke.
A dispute between Trump and the governor of Maine Janet Mills began on February 20 during a meeting of the Republican Party of Governors, when Trump threatened to reduce federal funds to the State for not prohibiting trans athletes from girls and women’s sports.
The next day, Mills’s office responded with a statement that threatened the legal actions against the Trump administration if it retained federal state funds. Then, Trump and Mills headed verbally on a widely publicized argument in the White House during a bipartisan meeting of governors.
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“Are you not going to comply with that?” Trump asked Mills.
Since then, multiple protests against Mills have been held outside the State Capitol, and Maine’s university system has cooperated with the Trump administration to ensure that Trans athletes compete in women’s sports after a temporary financing break.
Last week, the Office of Civil Rights of Human Services and Health of the United States (OCR) He announced that he found The Department of Education of Maine, the Association of Directors of Maine and Grelyly High School in violation of Title IX for continuing to allow trans inclusion in girls’ sports.
The announcement warned that the State had 10 days to correct its policies through a signed agreement or risk derivation to the United States Department of Justice for appropriate action. That deadline spent Thursday.
OCR’s interim director, Anthony Archeval, previously provided a statement A Fox News Digital Warning of possible consequences for the continuous challenge of the Executive Order.
“What the HHS is asking about the Department of Education of Maine, the Association of Directors of Maine (MPA) and Grelyly High School is simple: protecting the rights of female athletes. Girls deserve sports only for girls without male competitors. And if Maine does not come to the table to voluntarily comply with title IX, HHS will prevent the title IX to the greatest amount to the greatest amount.”
Associated Press contributed to this report.
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