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Maine Gov. Janet Mills will be one of the recipients of the Human Rights Award from Robert F. Kennedy Human Rights Organization. A ceremony will be held next month.
Mills will receive the award because of her fight with President Donald Trump’s administration on transgender athlete -cluttering in women’s and girls’ sports.
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Governor of Maine Janet Mills participates in Pen America Spring Literary Gala at the American Museum of Natural History on Thursday, May 15, 2025 in New York. (Andy Body/Invision/AP)
“I am honored to receive this recognition named to former Attorney General Robert F. Kennedy, a heroic champion of civil rights and the rule of law that governs our nation and inspires the world,” Mills said in a news message.
“Throughout my career as a district attorney, general lawyer and now as governor of Maine, I have struggled to maintain the constitution of my state and my country. I feel that it is responsible for all Americans to defend their principles, for the rights of others, and of the rule of law that protect us all. should inspire us all today.
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Democratic head of government Janet Mills delivers his State for the State Address, January 30, 2024, at the State House in Augusta, Maine. (AP Photo/Robert F. Bukaty, File)
Mills, along with the Justice Department -Auing Attorney Elizabeth Oyer and Immigration and Reform activist Jeanette Vizgura, received the award “for their moral courage and willingness to act according to their beliefs – even with great personal risk.”
The US Department of Agriculture (USDA) sued the state of Maine in April when Mills succumbed the president’s executive order to keep men out of girls and women’s sports. Main’s policy of transient participation has been a source of hernia, which led to a public spat between Trump and Mills during a meeting with the governors in February. The USDA Case was one of the few who were filed against the state.
The USDA announced a financing freezing and a review of federal funding for Maine for the state, which allegedly refuses to provide equal opportunities for women and girls in educational programs. USDA secretary Brooke Rollins said at that time that the state must accept to protect female athletes from trans -cluttering before funding would be restored.
Maine sued USDA over the financing freezing and accused the department of “detention of financing used to feed children in schools, childcare centers and programming after school and disabled adults in a total environment.”
President Donald Trump signs an executive order that prevents transient female athletes from competing in women’s or girls’ sporting events, in the eastern space of the White House, on Wednesday, February 5, 2025, in Washington. (AP Photo/Alex Brandon)
The state dropped the lawsuit against the administration when the USDA agreed to restore federal funding earlier this month.
Maine is still facing other legal battles on the issue.
