The US Department of Health and Human Services (HHS) Office for Civil Rights (OCR) announced on Monday that the Maine Department of Education, Maine Principals’ Association and Greely High School Alle are in violation of Title IX.
The Trump administration expanded its title IX study of Maine last week with reference to violations of President Trump’s executive order that biological men are not allowed to compete in women’s sports in educational and athletic institutions.
Maine Principals’ Association, which is the governing body of athletics in high school in the state, and Greely High School were both added to the list of Maine institutions that HHS was investigating. Last month, OCR also announced that the Maine Department of Education examined “based on information that Maine intends to defy” Trump’s executive order.
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US President Donald Trump is talking in the Oval Office of the White House in Washington, DC. (Chris Kleponis/CNP/Bloomberg via Getty Images)
Four days after this notice, HHS issued a “Notice of Trust.”
Now OCR’s letter of determination to the three units offers them an opportunity to “voluntarily commit within 10 days to resolve the case through a signed agreement or risk reference to the US Ministry of Justice for appropriate action.”
This comes after the OCR study found that all three units are required to comply with section IX and violated sections IX.
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“The Maine Department of Education may not agree to its obligations under federal law by decreasing control over its leisure activities, programs and services for Maine Principals’ Association,” Anthony Archeval, acting director of OCR at HHS, said in a press release. “We hope the Maine Department of Education, Maine Principals’ Association and Greely High School will work with us to get to a deal that restores justice in women’s sports.”
Trump’s executive order 14201, better known as “keeping men out of women’s sports”, was signed to “protect female students athletes, in the women’s category, from having to ‘compete with or against or have to act unclear before men.’ to comply with the policy established in this order. ”
That’s exactly what happened in Maine when the State Education Department received almost $ 1 million from HHS sub-crews alone, which Maine House Republicans said in a press release this past week.
Maine State Rep. Laurel Libby sounds the alarm over the state despite against President Donald Trump’s executive order that requires a cessation of biological men competing in women’s sports. (Getty/Maine Representanthus)
Republican lawmakers in Maine called on Head of Government Janet Mills, a Democrat, to comply with Trump’s executive order with millions in federal funding for K-12 schools threatened as a result of not doing so.
“If the Maine Democrats continue to double to allow biological men to participate in girls’ sports, our students are losing hundreds of millions of dollars federal funding. Gov. [Janet] Mills and legislative Democrats have a renewed opportunity to do the right thing, to ensure restored funding and a fair and level rules for Maine -Girls, “said state representative Laurel Libby, R – Auburn, last Thursday.
Libby became a prominent figure in this Maine debate after sending an ugly high school bar vaulter on social media. Poland Vaulter competed as late as June 2024 as a biological man and ended up winning a state championship as a woman.
Democrats in the Maine State Legislature Censored Libby for the position, who showed the athlete, competing as a man while next to a picture of the athlete that won women’s vaulting competition in Maine-Class B indoor championship in February.
Trump called Maine shortly after Libby’s post began to arouse the debate. Trump had a public argument with the head of government at the White House, where he threatened state funding if Maine did not “clean up.” Mills replied she would see Trump “in court.”
Maine Gov. Janet Mills and President Donald Trump in the White House Friday. (Getty Images)
Mills, in congruence with Maine Principals’ Association, claims that Trump’s executive order is in conflict with Main’s current human rights law. As a result, after the executive order would defy the state law, which currently allows athletic participation based on the person’s declared gender identity.
“No president – Republican or Democrat – can withhold federal funding authorized and devoted to Congress and paid for by the Maine taxpayers in an attempt to force someone to comply with his will,” Mills said in a statement when HHS initially announced his investigation. “It is a violation of our constitution and our laws that I made an oath to maintain.”
