The Department of Agriculture has stopped sending certain federal funds to Maine schools because the state allows transgender athletes to play in women’s sports.
In a 180-degree change from the Biden administration, the Trump administration has ruled that Title IX requires that only biological females can play in women’s sports.
Maine has insisted it will abide by its Maine Human Rights Act, which supports transgender athletes in women’s sports, even though it has been told federal law supersedes state law, as noted by The Hill.
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“You cannot openly violate federal law against discrimination in education and expect federal funding to continue unabated,” Agriculture Secretary Brooke Rollins wrote in a letter to Democratic Maine Gov. Janet Mills.
“Your defiance of federal law has cost your state,
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