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The state of Maine and President Donald Trump came to a small deal in their big feud over the issue of trans-athletes in girls’ sports.
In return for the US Department of Agriculture, who agreed to restore federal funds to Maine that it had frozen, the state fell its lawsuit against the Trump administration during this issue.
The trial was filed on April 7 after a federal financing freezing in response to the state’s refusal to keep trans athletes out of girls sports.
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Federal judge John Woodcock ordered the Trump administration to restore these funds April 12. Woodcock, a senior judge at the US Court of District of Maine, was appointed by former President George W. Bush in 2003.
Maine Attorney General Aaron Frey’s office published a statement relating to the settlement on Friday afternoon.
“It’s unfortunate that my office had to resort to the federal court just to get the USDA to comply with the law and its own rules,” Frey said. “But we are glad that the trial is now resolved and that Maine will continue to receive funds as instructed by Congress to feed children and vulnerable adults.”
However, the state is still facing other legal battles related to the question.
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The US Department of Justice announced a lawsuit against the state of Maine for its continued defense against Trump’s executive order to keep biological men out of girls and women’s sports and alleged violations of title IX. Attorney General Pam Bondi Announced the trial at a press conference April 16.
“The Ministry of Justice will not sit by when women are discriminated against in sports,” Bondi said at the press conference. “What they’ve been through are terrible.”
Bondi said she was looking for an injunction and got titles back to the girls who “rightly” won competitions where Trans athletes participated.
The Ministry of Justice accused the state “open and defiant whistling federal law on discrimination by enforcing policies that require girls to compete against boys in athletic competitions that are exclusively appointed for girls,” according to a complaint obtained by Pakinomist.
“By prioritizing gender identity rather than biological reality, Main’s policy deprives girls of fair competition, refuses them equally athletic opportunities and exposes them to increased risks of physical injury and psychological injury.”
Frey previously claimed that the “Children’s Nutrition Program from the Maine Department of Education was unable to access several sources of federal funding, all needed to feed children and vulnerable adults” after Rollins signaled that Funding Freeze would not affect programs that keep children fed.
Meanwhile, Maine Sate Rep. Laurel Libby looking to bring his lawsuit against Maine House speaker Ryan Fecteau to the US Supreme Court. Libby sued Fecteau after she was censored by the state law’s democratic majority in February for a viral Facebook post identified a trans athlete who won a girls competition.
But Rhode Island Us District Court -Fremmer Melissa Dubose gave Against Libby In her case April 22. Dubose, who was appointed by former President Joe Biden in January, chairman of the case, after each district judge in Maine refused to take it.
Then the first appeal court also gave up against Libby.
So now she is looking for intervention from the US Supreme Court and expects to hear if the court will hear the case 12 April.
The state is also involved in its own internal conflict with the residents.
ONE School District In Maine moves to comply with Trump instead of the state over the question. MSAD No. 70 School Board voted unanimously Monday night to comply with section IX, and Superintendent Tyler Putnam told Pakinomist Digital that he will change the district’s policies to prevent trans athletes from competing in girls sports.
Maine parent Nick Blanchard recently drew national attention after being interrupted at a school board meeting in Maine’s capital Augusta while discussing the controversial question and a petition he launched to have a school administrator removed from her attitude to support transgender people.
Maine High School Athlet Cassidy Carlisle spoke at a demonstration in Augusta opposed government Janet Mills on the question and took a trip to the White House to discuss the question in her state 27 February. Carlisle was driven to intervene after the question after losing to a trans athlete in cross country skiing and Nordic ski competitions. She also says she had to share a dressing room with a trans athlete six years ago during a gymnasium class.