Maine Gov. Janet Mills has responded to the trial filed against her state by the US Ministry of Justice (DOJ) to let Trans athletes compete in girls’ sports.
Mills’ office announced a statement Wednesday, hours after the trial were announced by Attorney General Pam Bondi at a press conference in the morning.
The statement refers to a decision by a federal judge last Friday to prevent the US Ministry of Agriculture (USDA) from freezing funding to the state on the issue and investigation by President Donald Trump’s Department of Education and Department of Health and Human Services for the past seven weeks.
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“Today, the latest, expected Salvo is in an unprecedented campaign to push the state Maine to ignore the Constitution and abandon the rule of law. This case has never been about school sports or protection of women and girls as it has been claimed, it is about states rights and defends the rule of law against a federal government to impose its will instead of assigning the law of our attitude. Government has acted illegally, ”the statement says.
“For Nearly Two Months, Maine Has Endured Recriminations From The Federal Government That Having Targeted Hungry School Kids, Hardworking Fishermen, Senior Citizens, New Parents, And Countless Maine People. LEAVING LITTLE DOUBT THAT THEIR OUTCOMES WERE PREDEMINED.
Mills also boasted her political background in the statement.
“For decades-first as a district attorney, as a lawyer and now as a governor-I have fought tirelessly for the rights of women and girls, for children and well-being for children and families, and defends the Maine Constitution and the Constitution of Justice.
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“As I have said before, this is not just about who can compete in the athletic field, this is about whether a president can force compliance with his will, without regard to the rule of law that governs our nation. I think he cannot.”
The Ministry of Justice has accused the state “Open and defiant whistling federal law on discrimination by enforcing policies that require girls to compete against boys in athletic competitions appointed exclusively for girls,” according to a complaint obtained by Pakinomist.
“By prioritizing gender identity rather than biological reality, Main’s politics deprives girls of fair competition, refuses them equally athletic opportunities and exposes them to increased risks of physical injury and psychological injury,” the complaint added.
The complaint said the United States will seek “judgment that gives declaring injunctions and replaces relief to the defendant’s violation of section IX and the federal financing contracts, it signed promising to comply with section IX and its implementing rules.”
The announcement of the trial comes almost two months after a notorious hostile exchange between Trump and Mills at a bi-party meeting for the White House led by Governors on February 21. The exchange ended with both Trump and Mills expressing the phrase “see you in court” after Mills insisted that her state would refuse to comply with his order.
Now Trump’s administration has done well with his promise to take the question to court.
The state has also launched its own trial against the Trump administration over the recent USDA cuts, and a federal judge has also ordered that funding cannot be frozen.
ONE Examination of The coalition of the American parents found that out of approx. 600 registered Maine voters, 63% said school sports participation should be based on biological sex, and 66% agreed that it is “only fair to limit women’s sports to biological women.”
The survey also found that 60% of residents would support a ballot limiting participation in Women’s and girls’ sports to Biological Women. This included 64% of the independent and 66% of parents with children under the age of 18.
