First in Fox: The Office of Civil Rights of the Department of Education of the United States (OCR) sent the Department of Education of Maine (MDOE) to the Department of Justice on Friday, since the State continues to allow Trans athletes to compete in girls’ sports.
It is the second derivation of the DOJ that the State Educational Institutions have faced in the last month on the subject, after the Department of Human Health and Services referred to MDOE, the Association of Main of Maine and Grelyly High School on March 28.
Now, the OCR informed the deputy attorney general of Maine Sarah Forster of a second reference of the Department of Justice in a letter on Friday. The letter, obtained by Pak Gazette Digital, establishes that on early Friday the Office of the MAINE attorney generally notified OCR that it would not sign a resolution agreement to amend the gender eligibility policies of the State to comply with Title IX, so the DOJ reference must be made.
“Consequently, the OCR has determined that compliance cannot be insured by informal or volunteer means,” said the letter. “OCR now refers to the Department of Justice with a recommendation for appropriate procedures, to enforce all legally available remedies.”
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OCR also says that it is starting procedures to have more funds for the suspended or frozen state.
“This letter also serves as a notification to MDO that OCR is initiating administrative procedures to suspend, terminate, defer the final approval and/or refuse to grant or continue federal financial assistance to MDOE,” reads the letter.
Last Tuesday, the USDA announced a freezing of funds for the State on the subject.
Maine Then, the officials filed a lawsuit against the United States Department of Agriculture (USDA) on Monday after the agency’s decision to freeze funds to the State for their refusal to reverse their transgender athlete participation policy in schools.
Pak Gazette Digital has communicated with Maine’s office to comment on Friday’s reference.
The State has been under immense federal pressure in recent months to protect female athletes from trans inclusion amid several controversial incidents that involve trans athletes and a dispute between President Donald Trump and the governor of Maine Janet Mills.
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After Trump signed an executive order to prohibit trans athletes from women and girls sports on February 5, Maine was one of the many states that openly challenged the order. The division of the State on trans inclusion was brought to light when Maine Laurel Libby did a position on social networks that identified a Trans athlete who won a pole jumping competition for girls for Grelyly High School that month.
The post caused national consciousness, even from Trump himself, who promised to reduce state financing if he continued to allow men in girls’ sports during a meeting of Republican governors on February 20. The next day, Mills’s office issued a statement that threatened the legal action against Trump participated in a verbal dispute with Mills about the problem at a bipartisan meeting of governors later that day.
Only a few hours after that, the United States Department of Education announced its initial research on the State for possible violations of Title IX.
Meanwhile, Libby was censored for its publication on social networks about the premise that he identified a minor by his name and photo. However, Libby has filed a lawsuit so that censorship is revoked, arguing that the Trans athlete had already been identified by other means before its position. The lawsuit has gone to trial in a district court of Rhode Island.
In addition to the incident that involves the poles jumper in Grelyly High School, other instances have impacted several girls throughout the state who have had to compete and share changing rooms with biological men.
Maine’s teenager, Cassidy Carlisle, told Pak Gazette Digital on how she had to share a costume with a trans student while she was in high school, then had to compete with another trans athlete in the Nordic skiing last year.
“The defeat that comes with that at that time is heartbreaking,” said Carlisle. “I am in a state of shock in a way. I did not believe it … I did not think it was happening to me.”
TO survey The coalition of American parents discovered that about 600 registered voters of Maine, 63% said that school sports participation should be based on biological sex, and 66% agreed that it is “just restricting women’s sports to biological women.”
The survey also found that 60% of residents would admit a voting measure that limits participation in Women and girls sports for biological females. This included 64% of independents and 66% of parents with children under 18.
