Trump administration officials concluded that Maine violated Title IX for allowing transgender athletes to compete in women’s school sports after launching an investigation into the state in February.
The notice sent to Gov. Janet Mills (D-ME) and Maine Attorney General Aaron Frey listed two instances in which biological male students who identify as female were permitted to participate in a girls’ high school athletic event, which violated President Donald Trump’s Feb. 5 executive order “Keeping Men Out of Women’s Sports.”
Anthony Archeval, the acting director of the Department of Health and Human Services’s Office for Civil Rights, accused Maine of “denying female student athletes in the State of Maine an equal opportunity to participate in, and obtain the benefits of participation” in school-sponsored athletic activities by
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