The US Department of Health and Human Services (HHS) Office for Civil Rights (OCR) announced on Monday that the Maine Department of EducationThe Maine Principals’ Association and Greely High School are all contrary to Title IX.
The Trump administration Extensive his title IX research into Maine last week, with reference to violations of the executive Order of President Trump stating that biological men are not allowed to compete in women’s sports in educational and athletic institutions.
The Association of Maine Principals, the administrative body of high school athletics in the state, and Greely High School were both added to the list of Maine institutions HHS. The OCR also announced last month that it investigated the Maine Department of Education “on the basis of information that Maine is planning” to defy the executive Order of Trump.
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US President Donald Trump speaks in the Oval Office of the White House in Washington, DC. (Chris Kleponis/CNP/Bloomberg via Getty images)
Four days after that announcement, HHS issued a ‘Violation of Violation’.
Now the determination of the OCR offers them the opportunity to bind them voluntarily within 10 days to resolve the case through a signed agreement or risk -feeding to The US Department of Justice For suitable action. “
This comes after the OCR investigation that all three entities are obliged to comply with Title IX and has violated the title IX.
“The Maine Department of Education may not take out its obligations under the federal law by rejecting control over its out -of -school activities, programs and services to the Association of Maine,” said Anthony Archeval, acting director of the OCR at HHS, in a press release. “We hope that the Maine Department of Education, the Maine Principals’ Association and Greely High School will work with us to reach an agreement that restores honesty in women’s sport.”
Trump’s Executive Order 14201, better known as’ men keeping women out of sport ‘, was signed to protect’ female student athletes, in the women’s category, to have to compete with or against or to appear or to appear for men. “” In turn, the executive order has also imposed “to revise subsidies for educational programs and, where suitable for the policy in this order.”
That is exactly what happened in Maine, because the Ministry of Education of the State received almost $ 1 million from only HHS sub-agencies, who said the Republicans of Maine House in a press release last week.
Maine State Rep. Laurel Libby sounds an alarm about the challenge of the State of Executive Order of President Donald Trump and demands an end to biological men who compete with women’s sports. (Getty/Maine House of Representatives)
Republican legislators in Maine called Gov. Janet Mills, a Democrat, to meet the Executive Order of Trump with millions of federal financing for K-12 schools that are threatened as a result of this not.
“If Maine Democrats continue to double to allow biological men to participate in girls sports, our students can lose hundreds of millions of dollars in federal financing. Gov. (Janet) Mills and legislative Democrats have a renewed opportunity to do the right thing, the right thing to do the right thing.
Libby became a prominent figure in this Maine debate after placing a Greely High School pole Vaulter on social media. De Pole Vaulter took as a biological man as recently and eventually won a state championship as a woman.
Democrats in the legislative legislative power of Maine censored Libby for the position that the athlete demonstrated as a man, while in addition to an image of the athlete who won the pole-faulting competition for women in the Maine Class B Indoor Championship in February.
Trump called Maine shortly after Libby’s post started arousing the debate. Trump had a public argument with Gov. Mills in the White House, where he threatened state financing if Maine did not ‘clean up’ it. Mills replied that she would see Trump ‘before the court’.
Maine Gov. Janet Mills and President Donald Trump in the White House on Friday. (Getty Images)
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Mills, in congruence with Maine Association, states that Trump’s executive order is contrary to the current human rights legislation of Maine. As a result, following the executive command would defy the Stups Act, which currently allows athletic participation on the basis of the person’s gender identity.
“No president – Republican or Democrat – can remember federal financing that has been authorized and appropriate by the congress and paid by Maine taxpayers in an attempt to force someone to comply with his will,” Mills said in a statement when the HHS initially announced his investigation. “It is a violation of our Constitution and our laws that I have taken an oath to maintain.”
Alec Schemmel from FOX News has contributed to this report.
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