Sen. Marsha BlackburnR-tenn., Responded to the spit of Maine Gov. Janet Mills with President Donald Trump on the issue of transgender recording in women’s sports.
Earlier this month, Trump signed the Executive Order “No Men in Women’s Sports” to ensure that no transgender athletes compete against women or girls in sport. Some states, such as Maine, have viewed the executive order.
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Maine Gov. Janet Mills (Camille Fine/USA Today Network)
It all led to a public substance between Mills and Trump on Friday. Trump threatened to withhold federal financing if the state continued to allow Transatletes in women’s sports. Mills replied: “We’ll see you in court.”
Blackburn spoke about Maine’s decision in an interview “Fox News Live” With Anker Mike Emanuel.
“This is one of those determining problems between left and right,” she said. “We completely believe that President Trump is right about this. It is the policy of the federal government that we will support Title IX, such as there, for women and women’s sports, and we will not support men, biological men in women’s sports. And As President Trump said this is the federal position and therefore the governor should maintain that.
Sen. Marsha Blackburn speaks at the Republican National Convention on July 15, 2024 in Milwaukee, Wisconsin. (Chip Somodevilla/Getty images)
“She would like to protect the sport of women and women. It is incredible that she would choose not to do that.”
The executive director of the primary administrative body for high school in the state of Maine said that athletic teams will continue to determine on the basis of the declared gender identity of a student, despite the fact that the executive order of the president is for “men from the to keep sports sports “.
Colorado Gov. Jared Polis, a democrat that serves as chairman of the National Governors Association, spoke about Mills and Trump’s spit.
“As governors, we have our earlier initiative that we continue to work, it better disagrees,” said Polis.
President Donald Trump speaks on 3 February 2025 with reporters in the Oval Office of the White House. (Anna Moneymaker/Getty images)
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“We always hope that people can disagree in a way that increases the discourse and tries to come to a common solution … what the problem is. I don’t think that disagreement is necessarily a model,” he continued, adding to it That at that time some governors may not have known the origin of the fiery exchange.
Fox News’ Charlie Creitz and Jackson Thompson have contributed to this report.
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