Since Maine continues to be a gathering point for the sports culture debate on transking athletes in women’s sports, the State Public Schools Superintendent Ryan Scallon has now said his piece about the situation.
The Department of Health and Human Services’ (HHS) Office of Civil Rights (OCR) announced that it found the Maine Department of Education, Maine Principals’ Association and Greely High School Alle in violation of Title IX after a study of trans-clad in girls’ sports.
“What HHS is asking for Maine Department of Education, Maine Principals ‘Association (MPA) and Greely High School are simple-protecting female athletes’ rights. Girls deserve girls-kun sports without male competitors. And if Maine does not come to the table to voluntarily comply Actiring Director Anthony Archeval Digital.
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However, there has been pushback to this finding as well as HHS ‘warning that the state has 10 days to direct its policies through a signed agreement or risk referral to the US Ministry of Justice, from several authorities in Maine, which now includes Scallon.
The superintendent compared the current transient athlete fight with previous US civil rights issues during a recent statement.
“In the history of our country, there have been many civil rights struggles, including, but not limited, to struggles for women’s rights to vote, for racial equality and for gay marriage. In each of these struggles, the opposition was partly driven by fear in attempting to print other people who see, act, or believe in something else.
Maine responds to Trump Admin’s statement State violated title IX by allowing transgenders in girls sports
“Today I see that it happens again with transient or non-binary students, and especially our transking athletes. When I came to this district, I was focused on the work of educating students to improve our results. I was not interested in proactively talking about social affairs or political affairs less than one percent of our students.
“In view of this I cannot continue to sit silently.”
Maine Principals’ Association issued a response to Pakinomist Digital following OCR’s announcement Monday.
Maine State Rep. Laurel Libby, Right, sounds the alarm over the state’s tross against President Donald Trump’s executive order that requires a cessation of biological men competing in women’s sports. (Getty/Maine Representanthus)
“The alleged violation is due to MPA’s policy, which is a direct result of Maine Human Rights Acts mandate that athletes are allowed to participate in the teams that are in line with their gender identity. MPA’s policy is in line with the Maine State Law,” the answer reads.
Trump administration expanded its title IX study of Maine last week with reference to violations of President Donald Trump’s executive order that biological men are not allowed to compete in women’s sports in educational and athletic institutions.
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. ”
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.
Maine Gov. Janet Mills and President Donald Trump in the White House. (Getty Images)
“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.”
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.”
