First at Fox: The U.S. Ministry of Education for Civil Rights (OCR) referred the Maine Department of Education (MDOE) to the Department of Justice on Friday as the state continues to allow trans -athletes to compete in girls’ sports.

It is the second DOJ reference that the State Education Institutions have been exposed to in the last month during the question, after the Department of Health and Human Services referred MDOE, Maine Principal’s Association and Greely High School on March 28.

Now OCR Maine Assistant Attorney General Sarah Forster informed about another doj referral in a letter on Friday. The letter obtained by Pakinomist Digital says Maine Attorney General’s office earlier on Friday formally informed OCR that it would not sign a decision agreement to change the state’s eligibility policy to comply with section IX, so the DOJ reference must be made.

“That’s why OCR has decided that compliance cannot be secured by informal or voluntary means,” the letter reads. “OCR is now referring to this question to the Ministry of Justice with a recommendation for appropriate procedures to enforce all legally available remedies.”

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OCR also says that the procedures initiated to get further funding for the state suspended or frozen.

“This letter also acts as a message to MDOE that OCR initiated administrative procedures to suspend, finish, postpone the final approval and/or refuse to give or continue federal financial assistance to MDOE,” the letter reads.

Last Tuesday, the USDA announced a financing freezing to the state on the issue.

Maine Officials then brought a lawsuit against the US Department of Agriculture (USDA) on Monday following the Agency’s decision to freeze the funding to the state of its rejection of turning its transsexual athlete participation policy in schools.

Pakinomist Digital has reached Maine Attorney General’s Office for comment on Friday’s referral.

The state has been under enormous federal pressure in recent months to protect female athletes from trans -cluttering in the midst of several controversial events involving trans athletes and an ongoing feud between President Donald Trump and Maine Governor Janet Mills.

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After Trump signed an executive order to ban trans athletes from women and girls’ sports on February 5, Maine was one of the many state that openly defied the order. The state’s gap on trans -clutter was then brought forward when Maine State representative Laurel Libby made a social media post that identified a trans -athlete who won a girls’ polevel -competition for Greely High School that month.

The post asked national awareness, including from Trump himself, who promised to cut off the funding of the state if it continued to allow men in girls’ sports during a meeting with GOP -Guvern on February 20. Just the next day, Mills’ office released a statement that threatened lawsuit against Trump, dealing with a verbal spat with Mills over the question at a Bipartisan meeting at the governors later that day.

Just hours after this, the US Ministry of Education announced its first study of the State of Potential Violations of Title IX.

Meanwhile, Libby was censored for her social media post on the condition that she identified a minor by name and photo. However, Libby has since brought a trial of having well censored, arguing that the Trans the athlete had already been identified by other media before her post. The trial has gone to trial in a Rhode Island District Court.

In addition to the incident involving pole vaulter at Greely High School, other cases have affected several girls all over the state who have had to compete with and share closet space with biological men.

Maine Teen Cassidy Carlisle former Pakinomist Digital told how she had to share a dressing room with a trans student while she was in high school, and then had to compete with another trans athlete in Nordic skiing last year.

“The defeat that comes with it at that moment is heartbreaking,” Carlisle said. “I’m just in shock in a way. I didn’t believe it. … I didn’t think it happened to me.”

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 and Girls Sport to Biological Women. This included 64% of the independent and 66% of parents with children under the age of 18.