Senator Marsha Blackburn, R-Tenn., Responded to Maine Gov. Janet Mills’ spat with President Donald Trump on the question of transgender’s inclusion in women’s sports.
Trump signed “No Men Men In Women’s Sports” executive order earlier this month to make sure no transnry athletes compete against women or girls in sports. Some states, like Maine, have bent the executive order.
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Maine Gov. Janet Mills (Camille Fine/USA Today Network)
It all led to a public dustup between Mills and Trump on Friday. Trump threatened to withhold federal funding if the state continued to allow trans athletes in women’s sports. Mills repeated, “See you in court.”
Blackburn talked about Main’s decision in an interview about “Pakinomist Live” with Anker Mike Emanuel.
“This is one of those who defines problems between left and right,” she said. “We fully believe that President Trump is right in this. It is the federal government’s policy that we will support title IX, which, for women and women’s sports, and we will not support men, biological men in women’s sports. As President Trump said this is the federal attitude and therefore the governor should enforce it.
Senator Marsha Blackburn speaks on the Republican National Convention on July 15, 2024 in Milwaukee, Wisconsin. (Chip Somodevilla/Getty Images)
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“She should want to protect women’s and women’s sports. It’s incredible that she would choose not to do it.”
The CEO of the primary governing body of high school sports in the state of Maine said that athletic teams will continue to determine eligibility based on a student’s declared gender identity, despite the president’s executive order seeking to keep “men out of women’s sports.”
Colorado Gov. Jared Polis, a Democrat who serves as chairman of the National Governors Association, talked about Mills and Trump’s spat.
“As governors, we have our previous initiative that we continue to work on is to disagree better,” Polis said.
President Donald Trump speaks to journalists in the Oval Office of the White House on February 3, 2025. (Anna Moneymaker/Getty Images)
“We always hope that people can disagree in a way that lifts the discourse and tries to get to a common solution around … what the problem is. I don’t think this disagreement is necessarily a model of it,” he continued , added that some governors may not have known the origin of the fiery exchange at the time.
